Mississippi is one of 13 states with what’s known as trigger laws. That means if and when Roe v. Wade is overturned, abortion access will almost immediately be banned.
Tennessee lawmakers are debating a bill that opponents say could hurt the state’s growing cannabis industry. The bill would make most Delta-8 THC products illegal in Tennessee.
Nearly 70 years after Emmett Till was brutally murdered in the Mississippi Delta, President Joe Biden is set to sign an anti-lynching bill that bears the teenager’s name on Tuesday.
With only ten days left in the 2022 Mississippi General Assembly, Senate and House lawmakers have still yet to push a unified tax reform proposal before the desk of Governor Tate Reeves.
Several federal Mid-South lawmakers issued statements Monday on social media on the matter, saying the U.S. should sever their ties with the Russian oil industry, but that would almost certainly result in even higher gas prices.
The number of Shelby County voting precincts is 26 less than in the 2020 election. With those voting locations approved, the Shelby County Election Commission now wants more than more than $400,000 to alert voters of the changes.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson currently sits on D.C.’s federal appellate court, but Friday she accepted President Joe Biden’s nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Finding a solution to gun violence is not easy task, but one Tennessee State representative is sponsoring a bill that would encourage a multi-agency approach to proactively reduce gun violence.
Where should Memphis police officers be allowed to live? Who gets to decide? Those questions are at the center of a debate playing out at Memphis City Hall and 200 miles away at the state capitol in Nashville, where lawmakers are pushing a bill to do away with residency requirements for first responders.
During the Greater Memphis Chamber’s most recent Supply Chain Webinar Series, TN-9 Congressman Steve Cohen gave a rundown of priorities that Memphis could potentially see funded from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee is expected to sign the redistricting bill, but Democrats say the plan dilutes Black voting strength in Memphis and Nashville, and say they plan to sue.
Friday night, a group of female movers and shakers from the Mid-South participated in a roundtable discussion called “Unbothered and Unmoved,” sponsored by the Memphis Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
With a 4-1 vote, the Tennessee Senate Ethics Committee has voted to recommend State Senator Katrina Robinson (D-Memphis) be expelled due to her conviction on federal fraud charges.
Tennessee State Senator Katrina Robinson is preparing to defend her position in the legislature after an ethics committee found probable cause for her removal.
The U.S. Senate was supposed to take up the big voting rights legislation on the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. However, the was moved to Tuesday.
It's been a month and a half since United States Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments in Mississippi's abortion ban case. Now, we're hearing from Attorney General Lynn Fitch on the next steps. The expectation is that the Supreme Court likely won't rule on this case till this summer.
