Feedstuffs
USDA announces $470m in food purchases
Purchases included $120 million in dairy products, $30 million each in pork products, chicken, and catfish products and $50 million in turkey products.
By Jacqui Fatka
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced Monday details of $470...
The Associated Press
U.S. officials award $5.5M for Gulf Coast train service
The Associated Press
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Plans to restore passenger train service along the Gulf Coast are getting a big boost.
Members of Congress from Mississippi announced Friday that the Federal Railroad...
Roll Call
Telehealth’s expansion may be here to stay
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By Gopal Ratnam and Jinitzail Hernandez
As thousands of patients struck by COVID-19 rushed to seek treatment in overcrowded New York City hospitals, intensive care specialists more than 350 miles away at the University of Pittsburgh...
Indianola Enterprise-Tocsin
Higher Ed Institutions To Receive Cares Act Funding
The Enterprise-Tocsin
Over $55 million will be going into Mississippi’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities or minority-serving institutions.
According to a release from U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith this week...
Roll Call
Telemedicine key to US health care even after pandemic ends
Doctors, advocates, lawmakers call for permanent lifting of telehealth restrictions once current emergency eases
By Gopal Ratnam
As thousands of patients struck by COVID-19 rushed to seek treatment in overcrowded New York...
Washington Free Beacon
Senators Probe Whether Banks Denied Coronavirus Relief to Gun, Energy Businesses
By Stephen Gutowski
Republican senators are launching a new inquiry into the troubled coronavirus relief program to ensure that banks are not discriminating against small businesses in the gun...
Magnolia State Live
Thank you Cindy Hyde-Smith for showing the leadership to publicly (and smartly) wear a face mask
By The Associated Press
One of Mississippi’s two U.S. Senators who attended a press conference Wednesday wore a face mask, as state and federal health authorities advise all...
Jackson Clarion-Ledger
Sen. Roger Wicker, Cindy Hyde-Smith join Gov. Tate Reeves at coronavirus briefing
By Giacomo Bologna
Gov. Tate Reeves was joined by Mississippi Senators Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith at a Wednesday press conference about the state's response to the spread of the...
WZFG Radio Fargo, N.D.
Sen. Cramer, Colleagues Urge Administration And Fed To Protect Second Amendment Industries From Discrimination
By Chris Larson
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer, a Senate Banking Committee member, led a group of 19 senators urging Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Federal Reserve...
Meridian Star
East Mississippi airports awarded federal grants
By Bill Graham
Key Field Airport in Meridian will receive a federal grant of $614,333 to reconstruct the taxiway, rehabilitate an emergency generator and seal the runway pavement.
Several airports in East Mississippi will receive...
