Senator Hyde-Smith believes the Unites States is strong when agriculture and rural America are strong. The Senator understands the unique challenges faced by rural Mississippi to provide residents with basic services, infrastructure, education, and health care. She supports policies that will allow rural communities to expand economically. The federal government should not be a roadblock to the growth and wellbeing of rural America.
Greenwood Commonwealth
Ark. Senator To Speak At Delta Council Meeting
Staff Report
U.S. Sen. John Boozman of Arkansas will be the keynote speaker for the 88th annual meeting of Delta Council on June 2.
The meeting will be held at Delta State University’s Bologna Performing Arts Center (BPAC) in...
Arkansas Talk Business & Politics
Trucking industry tackles longstanding debate of allowing interstate drivers under age 21
by Jeff Della Rosa
The trucking industry continues to debate whether the age of interstate truck drivers should be reduced from 21 to 18.
A new apprenticeship program might...
Clarksdale Press Register
Delta Council Addresses Rural Health Care
By Floyd Ingram
Small, out-patient hospitals are not the wave of the future – they are here.
One of the nation’s top healthcare experts told those gathered for the Delta Council’s annual meeting last week that big-box, multi...
Magnolia State Live
Mississippi university graduates first class of Ag flight pathway students
By Magnolia State Live
The first 10 students from the Commercial Aviation Department at Delta State University to graduate with an Agricultural Aviation Operations Career Pathway Certification were...
DeltaNews.TV
Spotlight on First Class of Agriculture Pilots at Delta State
The first class of pilots have graduated from the new ag pilot training program at Delta State University. As Candi Stone found out, this program means much more than just learning how to fly. Ashley Brewer
By Ashley...
Natchez Democrat
Joint workforce development effort earns almost $1 million in new grants
By Jan Griffey
NATCHEZ — The fledgling joint workforce development effort here has received two separate grant awards worth between $910,000 and $1 million over the next three years, Natchez Mayor Dan Gibson...
Pharamcy Today
If you build it, they will come: A safe haven at the pharmacy
Ilisa BG Bernstein, PharmD, JD, FAPhA
June 2023 Volume 29, Issue 6
In the 1989 film Field of Dreams, an Iowa farmer is inspired to pursue a dream. He builds a baseball field on his farm driven by the promise that “if you...
Farm Progress
Debt ceiling bill clears Senate
Biden set to sign the bill into law.
By Joshua Baethge
The Senate voted late Thursday to approve legislation previously passed by the House to suspend the debt limit. The bill passed by a margin of 63-to-36 with 31 Republicans and five Democrats...
HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS ‘RURAL HOSPITAL SUPPORT ACT’
Bipartisan Measure Seeks Permanent Extension of Key Medicare Programs, Improved Criteria
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today announced she has cosponsored legislation that would build on her work to ensure more predictable federal resources to help rural hospitals remain open.
The bipartisan Rural Hospital Support Act (S.1110) would permanently extend the existing Medicare-dependent Hospital (MDH) and Low-Volume...
HYDE-SMITH, COMMITTEE TACKLE LOOMING ELECTRIC RELIABILITY PROBLEMS
Policies Targeting Natural Gas, Coal Creates Risks of Greater Outages, Rolling Blackouts
VIDEO: Senator Hyde-Smith Questions the Risks of Inaction to Fix Nation’s Electric Grid Problems.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and her colleagues on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today examined how Biden administration energy policies increasingly put the nation’s electric grid at risk...
