Heather Harrison

After failing to approve a budget during its regular session earlier this spring, the Mississippi Legislature will return for a special legislative session to complete its unfinished business tomorrow at 11 a.m., Gov. Tate Reeves announced today. https://t.co/TQIlyZoocU

Lawmakers’ revision of Mississippi’s legislative redistricting proposal gained approval from a panel of three federal judges on May 7 after months of legal battles, triggering the state to host 15 special elections for legislative seats this November. https://t.co/MDxdxWjHcu

RT @sojuboyteIIem: Opening instagram like damn everyone got their master’s degree this year

For weeks, the Trump administration’s funding delays forced Disability Rights Mississippi to stop taking new clients, leaving children and adults in institutions across the state at risk of abuse. It could be a vision of a much more difficult future. https://t.co/jfBoK6LEdU

I need to do this. I found my passport and ORIGINAL birth certificate in a Barnes and Noble plastic bag on the floor of my closet…

Sam @zo1oft

Keep losing my passport so I framed it https://t.co/A2T7XNjqob

The 2025 legislative session ended in early April without lawmakers finalizing a budge. Then an April 30 deadline Gov. Tate Reeves set for the House and Senate to reach an agreement on the state budget passed without any public developments. https://t.co/DMt1Zk0AWM

Trump still hasn't approved Gov. Reeves' request for FEMA assistance for the 14 Mississippi counties that suffered damage during severe storms in March. Reeves said he remained "hopeful" that Trump would approve the major disaster declaration. https://t.co/xTMe3EhiFy

Three endangered Mississippi hospitals will switch to a Medicare payment model that could keep them afloat after the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved their applications for the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration program. https://t.co/acINnbg6nI

RT @aallyahpatrice: In Clarksdale, there's limited transportation and no movie theater. The town inspired Sinners, but many can't travel to…

The Mississippi Legislature’s newly redrawn Mississippi Senate District map does not follow court orders to strengthen voting power for Black Mississippians in DeSoto County, a unanimous three-judge panel ruled on Tuesday. https://t.co/b33izq59pF

The Mississippi Humanities Council, an organization behind events and programs across the state focused on history and culture, is facing steep cuts after the Trump administration eliminated federal funding for its current and future grants. https://t.co/d7kU53ZKvy

Sen. John Polk, a Republican from Hattiesburg, Miss., who has served the residents of Mississippi Senate District 44 since 2012, is retiring from the Mississippi Senate after lawmakers redrew his district following a court order. https://t.co/h8TfzpUFCt

NEW: Mississippi will gradually eliminate its income tax while reducing the grocery tax and raising the gas tax under a bill Gov. Tate Reeves signed into law on Thursday. https://t.co/XluAt4sAU1

The Mississippi NAACP chapter and DeSoto County are making legal objections to the Mississippi Legislature’s redrawn legislative district maps in two separate court briefs. https://t.co/cwqaHIhmlp

Mathematical errors in the Mississippi Legislature’s tax-reform plan could mean that Mississippi abolishes the income tax much sooner than intended without first meeting significant economic growth targets. https://t.co/cQqB1s3H6r

RT @aygela: hey boss can i head out early i wanna go home to sit in the sun

Mississippians could soon pay less in income and grocery taxes while paying more in gas taxes under a bill that both chambers of the Legislature have now approved. https://t.co/nVloMK5xlO