January 2013 Archive

Nearly three thousand Mississippi community college students lost their Pell Grants in Fall 2012. MPB's Daniel Cherry reports, a higher education researcher says that could put a college education out of reach for many students. 

lawmakers begin their three-month legislative session in Jackson.

Nearly all of the 174 Senators and Representatives returned to the state Capitol for the start of the 2013 legislative session on Tuesday.

Also topping the 2013 legislative agenda is education reform, and as MPB's Daniel Cherry reports, charter schools are expected to be the biggest education issue.

A group of hospitals and public health advocates want the state to expand the medicaid program.

Mississippi charities are asking for help in caring for the homeless as nighttime temperatures dip below freezing in many areas of the state.

The federal government is delaying approval of a proposed health insurance marketplace.

Just like for school-based programs, there is a federal program to subsidize lunch and nutritious snacks for childcare centers. But in Mississippi, less than half of centers are participating.

The 2013 Mississippi legislature gavels in this Tuesday, and the debate over charter schools is likely to be one of the hottest issues of the session.

Differences between the governor and insurance commissioner could sink a proposed health insurance exchange.

A sixth person pleads guity in a set of racially motivated attacks.

Mississippi's congressmen and senators are divded over the fiscal cliff deal.

Forecasters could downgrade Mississippi's economic outlook following the deal to avoid the fiscal cliff...that's according to the state's economist. MPB's Daniel Cherry reports...

MPB News has been following sequestration and it's possible effect on Mississippi.

The sequestration deadline is today and if government officials don’t come to a deficit reduction agreement by midnight tonight, the much talked about “across-the –board” budget cuts will occur.