August 2012 Archive

"Ok that is important because everybody should know what other people believe in. Why they are wearing the turban, why they are wearing the beard. Why they are having all these things. Because if we know we will understand what they believe in, what they are doing."

Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson address 4-thousand Jackson Public School Staffers.

"Oh no I think you gotta do that if not you're gonna have people coming from all over the place. And if that's true you're kinda cheating a lotta kids in this area."

Representative George Flaggs says expanding Medicaid would provide heatlh care to four hundred thousand low-income Mississippians.

Hinds County Supervisors consider banning saggy pants county-wide.

Hands Across the Sand is one way Mississippi environmental groups are drawing a line against drilling in state waters. The Mississippi Development Authority and two environmental groups face off Wednesday at an administrative hearing on the drilling rules.

Health officials say Mississippi is facing a busier year than most when it comes to West Nile Virus.

State lawmakers could ask the state board of education to explain why graduation rates are no longer part of the school rating formula.

In a study on the effects of the BP oil spill, lead researcher Alice Ortmann says when the dispersant Corexit was added to water from the Gulf of Mexico, the number of ciliates and phytoplanktons went down by half and bacteria doubled. The study suggests a possible disturbance in the food chain.

Governor Phil Bryant took the stage at the Neshoba County Fair yesterday and laid out his plans for moving forward.

A state representative is trying to replace replace the court's chief justice.

"When you don't have other crops then you resort to illegal crops. if we can teach them how to grow vegetables, things to help them feed their families and things that they can do to raise their livestock to where they'll have meat to eat then those other things will go by the wayside."

FBI and DEA officials said the 49 people charged with dealing cocaine and crack cocaine from Moss Point to Gulfport are associated with the Black Gangster Disciples street gang.

Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves says reforming Mississippi's education system is going to be a high priority in the next legislative session.

"March 2013 if anyone receives a federal benefit check via the mail you're gonna be sent a debit card automatically. But every time they  use that debit card they're gonna be charged from the folks who sent them the debit card and where they use that debit card."