Kate Royals
Reporter at Mississippi Today
Community health editor at @MSTODAYnews. Reach me at [email protected]
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1 week ago |
mississippitoday.org | Kate Royals
Under the shadow of a rushed and unusually chaotic budget process last month, Mississippi legislators approved nearly $700,000 for a pilot program to help poor defendants in one of the state’s most rural areas get public defenders. Mississippi lawmakers have long resisted reforming the state’s dysfunctional public defense system, which can often leave an indigent defendant in jail for weeks or months without access to a lawyer, a long-held Constitutional right. Gov.
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1 week ago |
wlbt.com | Kate Royals
Marla Demita could hear the screams of her 9-month-old son as soon as she entered Little Blessings Daycare in Yazoo City. When she got to the room where he was kept, baby Dean was crying inconsolably – unusual behavior for him. She said that most days, Dean “lights up” with a smile when he sees her. But on the afternoon of May 20, “it’s like he looked straight through me, like he didn’t know who I was.” The troubling behavior escalated that night.
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1 week ago |
rawstory.com | Kate Royals
Marla Demita could hear the screams of her 9-month-old son as soon as she entered Little Blessings Daycare in Yazoo City. When she got to the room where he was kept, baby Dean was crying inconsolably – unusual behavior for him. She said that most days, Dean “lights up” with a smile when he sees her. But on the afternoon of May 20, “it’s like he looked straight through me, like he didn’t know who I was.”The troubling behavior escalated that night.
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3 weeks ago |
djournal.com | Kate Royals
Former Mississippi Medicaid Director Drew Snyder is stepping down as head of the federal Medicaid agency. Snyder, an attorney, was tapped by the Trump administration in January to serve as the deputy administrator and director of the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services. kAm$?J56C :D C6D:8?:?8 5F6 E@ A6CD@?2= 72>:=J >2EE6CD[ 2 D@FC46 72>:=:2C H:E9 E96 D:EF2E:@? E@=5 |:DD:DD:AA: %@52J @?
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1 month ago |
djournal.com | Kate Royals
Five Horizons Health Services in Starkville provides sex education and low-cost reproductive health care to Mississippians who might never receive it otherwise – but the federal government is withholding the funds that make the work possible. Title X, a federal program that has been providing money for family planning services to states for over 50 years, flows through the nonprofit Converge to 91 clinics in Mississippi, including Five Horizons.
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These Hattiesburg-area parents’ children died of addiction. Local officials in the area are managing opioid settlements without their input. https://t.co/jany6I4FTQ
Public health advocates and Mississippians impacted by addiction expressed concern about the advisory council’s makeup, the $56 million carveout for expenses unrelated to the opioid crisis and the Legislature’s final decision-making power. https://t.co/fkfoqBGnuo
Storied Jackson Medical Mall faces an uncertain future as UMMC clinics, health center depart. Great story with necessary context from @gwendilworth https://t.co/sf0f46MFMa
