ACA: Of Exemptions and Catastrophic Insurance Plans
Welp, like so many people I had high hopes for being able to purchase affordable insurance through the ACA. I'm self employed and my husband retired in 2012. We kept him and our son on COBRA because...
View ArticleWatch it on PBS: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
This coming Monday night, PBS's "Independent Lens" will show a documentary, Spies of Mississippi, which "reveals the full scope of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission’s efforts to preserve...
View ArticleBreaking: Mayor Chokwe Lumumba has died (Jackson, Miss.)
Local news is reporting the death of Jackson's new mayor, Chokwe Lumumba. http://www.wdam.com/...Mr. Lumumba was an attorney and long-time activist. I had such hopes for his term. :-/From Al...
View ArticleMississippi House subcommittee revises "Turn away the Gays" bill
"The Mississippi House of Representatives Civil Subcommittee late Wednesday voted to strike provisions of a so-called “religious freedom” bill that the ACLU and other legal experts said invites...
View ArticleMississippi: 'Right to discriminate' remains in bill
'The bill, obtained by Deep South Progressive, still says that state action cannot “compel any action contrary to a person’s exercise of religion” and continues to define “exercise of religion” to mean...
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'Ethical Thursdays' in Mississippi
Mississippi activists are working on a coalition of groups which will hold monthly rallies at the Capitol, similar to what other states are doing. So far there have been two, on 2/27/14 and 3/13/14....
View ArticleTea Party blogger arrested for sneaking into nursing home, photographing...
Clayton Kelly, a supporter of Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel, was arrested Thursday on charges of exploitation of a vulnerable adult."On April 26 Kelly posted a YouTube video “hit piece”...
View ArticleMS-Sen: More details emerging - Police claim Kelly and others began...
In the ongoing story of MS Tea Party folks sneaking into a nursing home and taking photographs of US Senator Thad Cochran's (R-MS) ill wife, the police report has more details (as reported by the blog...
View ArticleMS-Sen: McDaniel staffer among three being investigated
"An official investigation has been opened into three people who were found locked in the Hinds County Courthouse hours after it was closed by election officials Tuesday after returns had been counted...
View ArticleVicki Slater announces for Governor of Mississippi
Madison Democrat Vicki Slater has tossed her hat into the ring. Saying that now-Governor Phil Bryant has "miserably failed", she says "today we begin to write a new history for our...
View ArticleMississippi: plaintiff in same-sex marriage case announces for State Auditor
"One of the plaintiffs who filed a federal lawsuit challenging Mississippi's ban on same-sex marriage is running for state auditor."http://www.wapt.com/...Pritchett is a civil engineer who owns her own...
View ArticleMississippi: Anti-Personhood activist announces for State Senate District 9
Activist and all-around good guy Cristen Hemmins has announced her candidacy for State Senator, District 9. Hemmins played a huge role in the efforts to defeat a Personhood amendment to the state...
View ArticleIf Josh Duggar had announced that he’s gay
Over at Deep South Daily they ask this question. What would folks like Mike Huckabee be saying about Duggar if he had come out as gay rather than as a child molester? “I never believed that in such a...
View ArticleDeplorables wish 'women and blacks' did not have voting rights, complain...
Simultaneously incredible and horrifying, there are people out there who sincerely wish to repeal the 19th amendment (which gave women the right to vote), and other amendments — #repealthe19th is...
View ArticleHistoric African-American Hotel Vandalized in Meridian, MS
The historic E.F. Young, Jr. Hotel in Meridian, Mississippi is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Last night, vandals spray-painted political messages on the building. Among the...
View ArticleTrump's America, con't.
The Jackson Free Press and The Root are reporting that a Mississippi publisher wrote a column which appeared in MissLou Magazine on January 11, 2017, promoting a ‘Gangbanger’s Rodeo’ open to...
View ArticleMississippi elections: modest gains
Democrats in Mississippi made a few modest gains in municipal elections yesterday. One interesting outcome was the election of Weston Lindemann to Ward 5 Alderman in the city of Meridian. Lindemann,...
View ArticleMississippi's Democratic Attorney General, Jim Hood, prepared to run for...
At the Women for Progress Mississippi event held on August 29th, 2018 in Jackson, Attorney General Jim Hood says about running for Governor: “I’ve made up my mind to do it”. He is waiting for his...
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