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.
Based on the barrage of television ads and mailers leading up to Tuesday’s primary election in Arkansas, it’s obvious who the most influential Republicans in the state are.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee says adoptions and foster care reform has been a focus of his throughout his term and will continue to be so no matter the decision.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has set a special election to fill a state House seat vacated by Democratic Rep. Sonya Williams-Barnes, of Gulfport. She resigned earlier this month to become Mississippi policy director for the Southern Poverty Law Center. She says the center supports many of the issues she has championed in office, including protection of voting rights and public education. Williams-Barnes was elected in November 2011. She pushed to get the Confederate battle emblem out of the state flag. Reeves said in a news release Friday that the special election will be held July 19 to fill the rest of her term, which ends in January 2024. The qualifying deadline is May 30.
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.
