The allegation that Bryant leveraged his control of welfare spending to punish a political opponent comes in a two-year-old federal court filing released Friday after Mississippi Today successfully motioned to unseal the case.
For a second week, the last one being August 22-26, the Shelby County Clerk’s Office has been closed, trying to address a backlog of applications for mainly license plates, car tags, and business licenses.
After a week of violence in Bluff City, one of the main items on the agenda at Tuesday morning’s Memphis City Council committee meetings was public safety.
A new report reveals the public officials taking home the most money. And most aren’t elected. It’s the second year the Mississippi Center for Public Policy has published the “Fat Cat Report”.
The Bill of Rights spells out American’s rights in relation to the government. And there’s a new movement to add a “Women’s Bill of Rights”. But it’s coming with push back. More than eight thousand have signed the drafted document.
An aggressive new filing in the state’s ongoing civil suit asks the court to look at whether Gov. Tate Reeves caused his fitness trainer Paul Lacoste, a defendant in the lawsuit, to receive improper welfare payments from the state and whether Reeves himself should be a defendant in the suit.
In a room filled with some of Shelby County’s biggest developers, business owners and community leaders each candidate for Shelby County Mayor made their case on why these economic leaders should pick them for the county’s top spot.
Pro-abortion activists have been applauding Metro Council for passing a resolution increasing access to abortion services for Metro employees, however, Gov. Bill Lee said it will not make a difference in the state law that is set to ban the procedure.
On this historic day, swearing in from Judge to Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson is officially serving in her role as the first-ever Black female Associate Justice on the Supreme Court.
Following Tennessee’s Federal Court of Appeals decision, lifting the six-week abortion ban, Planned Parenthood providers have now suspended all abortion services in the state.
To advocates for domestic violence victims, this bill is cheap talk, hoping that in the near future more language comes from the local level on how this law can help prevent threats from turning into gun violence.
Jackson Women’s Health Organization has filed a lawsuit Monday asking Hinds County to prevent Mississippi from enforcing its trigger ban, which would stop all abortions.
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to outlaw abortions, Tennessee is looking to expedite the process.
While many observe Juneteenth as the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, it is not recognized as a state holiday in Tennessee though it is a federal holiday.
Though the ads said he was in Memphis, the event was held in Southaven at a Landers Center, where thousands of Mid-Southerners from across the region came to hear Trump speak, as well as a long list of conservative hosts.
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