Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo
Three Rivers awarded $400,000 to assist in region's economic recovery efforts
By Taylor Vance
PONTOTOC • The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration announced on Tuesday that it was awarding $400,000 in federal COVID-19 relief...
Mississippi Press
Pascagoula attorney nominated to serve as U.S. District Judge
By Warren Kulo
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Pascagoula attorney Taylor McNeel has been nominated to serve as a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi, U.S. Senators Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith...
WTOK-TV Meridian
Military Matters: Lauderdale County teen to attend U.S. Air Force Academy
News
MERIDIAN, MISS. (WTOK) - A Lauderdale County teen recently received his high school diploma and now he’s on his way to Colorado to further his education at the United States Air Force Academy.
Trey...
mHealth Intelligence
Senators Target Telehealth Access for Farmers, Loggers and Fishermen
By Eric Wicklund
June 16, 2020 - Lawmakers are looking to extend telehealth into rural parts of America to improve access for people in need of mental health services.
A group of Senators last week...
Breitbart
GOP Senators Say Mississippi Statues at U.S. Capitol, State’s Flag, Are State’s Business
By Penny Starr
Republican Senators from Mississippi were pressed to speak about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) letter to the Joint Committee on the Library on June 10 asking that 11 statues of...
WJTV-TV Jackson
U.S. senators on Confederate monuments at U.S. Capitol and Mississippi’s state flag
NEWS
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – In the wake of recent protests over police brutality and racism, some Confederate monuments across the country have been removed and relocated.
House Speaker Nancy...
WZFG Radio Fargo, N.D.
Cramer, Colleagues Call For Permanent Expansion Of Telehealth Following COVID-19 Pandemic
By Chris Larson
U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) led a bipartisan group of 30 senators in calling for the expansion of access to telehealth services...
Waterways Journal
Trump Signs Order To Reduce Regulatory Delays
By Jim Myers
Washington, D.C.—President Donald Trump, who has made regulatory reform a hallmark of his administration, signed another executive order directing federal agencies, including those important to the waterways industry, to...
WSAZ-TV Huntington, W.Va.
More support to award Woody Williams with Presidential Medal of Freedom
By WSAZ News Staff
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Another elected official is putting his support behind the effort to award Hershel "Woody" Williams with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
According...
Northern Ag Network
Expanding Mental Health Services In Rural America
By Leif Bakken
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) led a bipartisan group of senators to introduce legislation to expand telemental health services in rural areas. The Home-Based Telemental...
