WICKER & HYDE-SMITH ANNOUNCE $19.7 MILLION FOR RURAL MISS. WATER, WASTEWATER IMPROVEMENTS

WICKER & HYDE-SMITH ANNOUNCE $19.7 MILLION FOR RURAL MISS. WATER, WASTEWATER IMPROVEMENTS

USDA Water and Waste Disposal Funding Awarded for Projects for Lauderdale, Marion, Oktibbeha, Pike & Wilkinson Counties, and City of Senatobia

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today announced the award of more than $19.7 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development grants and low-interest loans to improve water and wastewater...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH WELCOME $1.98 MILLION IN GRANTS FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION PROGRAMS

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH WELCOME $1.98 MILLION IN GRANTS FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Rural Development Grants to Support Technology Installation Statewide

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today welcomed the award of $1,980,417 to support distance learning programs across the entire state.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Rural Development will award the grants.

“These investments from the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

HYDE-SMITH WELCOMES U.S.-SOUTH KOREA RICE AGREEMENT AS GOOD FOR MISSISSIPPI PRODUCERS 

HYDE-SMITH WELCOMES U.S.-SOUTH KOREA RICE AGREEMENT AS GOOD FOR MISSISSIPPI PRODUCERS 

Rice Pact Comes on Heels of China Agreement to Lift Ban on American Poultry Imports

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today welcomed news of an agreement that could allow exports of rice grown in Mississippi to South Korea.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue on Tuesday announced the long-sought agreement by which South Korea will...

Telehealth’s expansion may be here to stay

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...

Higher Ed Institutions To Receive Cares Act Funding

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Higher Ed Institutions To Receive Cares Act Funding

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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...

Telemedicine key to US health care even after pandemic ends

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...