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Can two players from a Mississippi town of 3,500 win on the PGA Tour and LPGA in back-to-back weeks? Ally Ewing charging at Chevron

Ewing has two top-10 finishes in four starts at this event, finishing tied for seventh last year.

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'Go, Mississippi': State could ditch song with racist roots

Mississippi is on the verge of retiring a state song with racist roots, two years after it surrendered a Confederate-themed state flag

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Mississippi governor signs largest teacher raise in years

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a bill to authorize the state's largest teacher pay raise in a generation

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Mississippi could become final state with equal pay law

Mississippi could become the final state to enact a law requiring equal pay for equal work by women and men

The Independent UK

‘Historic injustice’: Biden makes lynching a US hate crime

Joe Biden signs anti-lynching law named after Emmett Till, a Black teen who was brutally killed in Mississippi in 1955.

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Ibogaine Blocks Alcohol's Rewarding Effects On Mice, Recent Study Finds

According to a recent study published in the Frontiers in Psychopharmacology journal, the psychoactive substance ibogaine could block some addiction-related effects of alcohol. The study analyzed the effects of ibogaine in mice through the model of addiction known as “conditioned place preference” (CPP), which measures the tendency for animals to spend…

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Old Dominion Freight Line Adds Capacity Via New, Expanded Facilities

Old Dominion Freight Line Inc (NASDAQ:ODFL) revealed its expansion efforts with service center growth in seven cities in 4Q21 and 1Q22. The less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier's new or improved facilities include Alliance, Texas; Byhalia, Mississippi; Clear Lake, Iowa; Kernersville, North Carolina; Marysville, Washington; West Columbia, South Carolina; and Westfield, Massachusetts. The company specified that…

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Mississippi lawmakers pass largest-ever state income tax cut

Mississippi, one of the poorest states in the nation, is on track for its largest-ever tax cut

The Independent UK

Los pequeños restaurantes sobrevivientes avanzan conforme la pandemia disminuye

CLARKSDALE, Mississippi— Durante dos años, Naomi King, una australiana propietaria de Levon's Bar and Grill en Clarksdale, Mississippi, hizo girar su modelo de negocio en más de un sentido. La pandemia de coronavirus les obligó a ella y a su esposo, Jonathan King, a reducir la plantilla a la mitad,…

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Surviving small restaurants push forward as pandemic ebbs

CLARKSDALE, Miss. — For two years, Naomi King, an Australian native who owns Levon’s Bar and Grill in Clarksdale, Mississippi, pivoted her business model in more ways than one. The coronavirus pandemic forced her and her husband, Jonathan King, to cut the staff by half, reduce hours of operation and…

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Tornadoes, climate change and why Dixie is the new Tornado Alley

Tornadoes tore up homes in New Orleans and its suburbs and were reported in communities from Texas to Mississippi and Alabama as severe storms swept across the South in late March 2022. We asked tornado scientist Ernest Agee to explain what causes tornadoes and how the center of U.S. tornado…

The Conversation

Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama warned as storm approaches

A storm system that left widespread damage and some injuries in its wake in Texas is drifting into Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama

The Independent UK

This week in history: Fannie Lou Hamer gives startling depiction of racism in Mississippi

In 1964, the Chicago Daily News ran a series of articles depicting “a state divided by itself,” Mississippi. Writer Nicholas von Hoffman’s interview with activist Fannie Lou Hamer, who died this week in 1977, demonstrated the price she paid fighting for her rights.

Chicago Sun-Times

POINT: If Roe is overturned, children, women and science will be respected once again

After decades of working to protect children from abortion, pro-lifers have successfully advanced legislation that challenges the bogus legal holding of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in our country. The challenge comes from a 2018 Mississippi law protecting babies in the womb starting at 15…

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Kentucky Senate passes bill banning abortions after 15 weeks

Kentucky lawmakers have taken another step toward banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy

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Fundrise Bets On Continued Rental Market Growth With $37.6 Million Acquisition Of Gulf Coast Rental Home Community

The real estate investment platform Fundrise announced that it acquired Emerald Lakes, a community of 106 detached single-family rental homes in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

The Independent UK

Mississippi governor claims ‘critical race theory’ used to ‘humiliate and indoctrinate’ students

Opponents warn new law could ‘open the door for future interference and classroom censorship ‘

The Conversation

Teacher sacked for reading bum book to students: the latest conservative book ban

On March 1, 2022, Toby Price, an assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in New Byrum, Mississippi, faced a problem. The reader booked for a Zoom session for 240 grade two students hadn’t shown up. So Price grabbed one of his favourite books, I Need a New Butt, and…

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Uproar as Mississippi signs bill to limit discussions of race in school lessons

Bill signed by Republican governor sparks opposition from Black lawmakers who say it will silence debate about racism’s harmful effects

The Independent UK

Mississippi gov signs law limiting race in lessons

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a bill to limit how race can be discussed in classrooms

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Missouri might criminalize out-of-state abortions. That’s ridiculous

The assault on women’s reproductive rights in state legislatures across the country has ramped up since the Supreme Court signaled in December that it might uphold a Mississippi ban on abortion at 15 weeks of gestation and dismantle the landmark ruling in Roe vs. Wade that protects a woman’s right…

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Mississippi teacher fired for reading I Need a New Butt! to children

Toby Price’s termination for sharing the humorous children’s book has sparked criticism and a wave of support

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Record Cold Temperatures Could Make Mississippi Colder Than Alaska This Weekend

Late Friday night into Saturday morning, much of the Southeast will be impacted by severe weather.

Benzinga

Renalytix Launches National Physician Access To KidneyIntelX Platform

Renalytix plc (NASDAQ:RNLX) has launched its new provider access portal, myIntelX, to provide nationwide online access for physicians to order KidneyIntelX bioprognostic testing. KidneyIntelX enables early-stage diabetic kidney disease (DKD) progression risk assessment by combining diverse data inputs, including blood-based biomarkers and personalized health data. It employs a proprietary algorithm to generate a…

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'Home Town' stars back Mississippi city's tourism tax effort

The stars of HGTV’s “Home Town” appeared at the Mississippi Capitol with others from their community to support a possible increase in a local tourism tax

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