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Addie Lee Green, Democratic nominee for Mississippi State Treasurer, holds a piggy bank with a $100 dollar bill stuffed in it, as she addresses the group of business leaders at the 2023 Hobnob, sponsored by the Mississippi Economic Council, in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Downticket Mississippi candidates discuss state's economy ahead of Election Day
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Thu,10/26/23-5:26PM , 401 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — With Election Day drawing near, Mississippi candidates offered competing visions for managing the state's economy in speeches Thursday.
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Greta Kemp Martin, the Democratic nominee for attorney general, speaks to reporters at a news conference, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, in Jackson, (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Democrat running for Mississippi attorney general pitches civil rights reforms as Election Day nears
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Tue,10/24/23-3:25PM , 404 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Democratic nominee for attorney general Greta Kemp Martin says “inaction” has been the primary feature of the state's top law enforcement office under her opponent's tenure.
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Evidence awaits testing in the toxicology lab at the state Crime Lab in Jackson, Miss., July 6, 2007. Incomplete homicide autopsy reports continued to pile up in Mississippi even as state leaders have touted tough-on-crime governance and a commitment to victims this year heading into the Nov. 7, 2024 general election. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Delayed homicide autopsies pile up in Mississippi despite tough-on-crime-talk
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Mon,10/23/23-11:04AM , 530 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Incomplete homicide autopsy reports have continued to pile up in Mississippi - despite tough-on-crime talk by state leaders ahead of the Nov. 7 general election.
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Ted Henifin, the interim third-party manager appointed by the U.S. Department of Justice to help fix the long-troubled water system of Jackson, Miss., speaks about the expansive list of reforms the city's water department is undertaking, June 5, 2023, at the Stennis-Capitol Press Corps lunch in Jackson. In an interview, Henifin addressed the timeline for improvements to Jackson's water system, pushback from local activists and how to price water fairly. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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What's changed — and what hasn't — a year after Mississippi capital's water crisis?
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Tue,10/17/23-4:37PM , 267 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Water is flowing again to nearly all of Mississippi’s capital city.
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