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Vicksburg Post

Hyde-Smith votes to advance bill funding Army Corps works in Mississippi 

By Staff Reports   

U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) voted Thursday with the Senate Appropriations Committee to advance a FY2024 appropriations bill that includes more than $185.7 million for...

Northside Sun

Methodist Rehab Center Welcomes Senator

Thu,07/20/23-5:00PM 
 
  
Methodist Rehabilitation Center recently welcomed Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to the hospital, where she held substantive discussions with management and the board on the challenges facing the delivery of quality...

Insider NJ

Menendez Announces Intro of National Flood Insurance Program

By Insider NJ

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.-06) joined today with local leaders, advocates and home owners to announce the introduction of the bipartisan and bicameral National Flood...

Vicksburg Post

Corps of Engineers announces next steps to complete Yazoo Backwater Project

By Staff Reports

The Federal Register officially published a Notice of Intent on Thursday for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the Corps...

Magnolia Tribune

Army Corps publishes Notice of Intent to prepare Environmental Impact Statement for Yazoo Backwater area

Public comment is being accepted through August 7th. A draft of the Environmental Impact Statement is expected by December.

By Frank Corder

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...

Brookhaven Daily Leader

Senate bill would direct $83M to military projects in Mississippi

By Daily Leader Staff

On Thursday, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), of Brookhaven, supported committee passage of a funding measure that would direct more than $83 million for military construction projects...

Brookhaven Daily Leader

Senate committee unanimously approves agriculture bill 

By Daily Leader Staff   

On Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed an appropriations bill that would direct federal investments in agricultural programs in Mississippi.  Committee member Sen. Cindy Hyde...

Healthcare IT News

The CONNECT for Health Act is reintroduced, again

A bipartisan group of 60 senators reintroduced the updated 2023 version of the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act. A companion bill was introduced in the House.

By Andrea Fox

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Delta Business Journal

Pump Plans Moving Forward

By Jack Criss

A proposed water management solution was presented in Vicksburg on May 4 to mitigate flooding in the South Delta. The Yazoo Pumps, long promoted by advocates and residents, now look to be finally completed in the near future...