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THREAD. The toxic air around us provides an essential opportunity to notice how the news reports about health and safety. Did you know that 10 million people die every year from air pollution alone, and 100,000 in the U.S. That's 5 times the number of homicides in the U.S.
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Thread: As Democrats push for huge budget increases for cops, I'm thinking about my client Cindy Rodriguez. She was a 51-year-old mother of two living with a physical disability. Police arrested for shoplifting from a grocery store. What happened to her next is important.
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This bill to prevent the state from returning federal funds that Mississippians need died without fanfare.
A woman facing eviction over $640 contacted me days ago, but I couldn’t direct her to the state’s rent program because Gov. Reeves sent back $130m in assistance last year.
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This @ayewolfe is the most entertaining storytelling I've read in some time. Deep reporting, smart writing, and subject matter shock value.
It's really got everything: NFL fame, lies, money, drugs, cartel threats, terrible EV charging infrastructure.
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I just found out one of my sources got killed.
I'm sad, but I'm not gonna wax poetic about how he was a good guy. I’m not sure he was.
But he was a great example of how broken the system is. And he did a lot to help expose that even without knowing it. THREAD:
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Dollar store parent companies say they’re feeding people in ‘food deserts,’ but critics say they’re making food inequity worse. Now, 25 municipalities have some form of moratorium on new stores. buff.ly/3vgGTWZ
Attorneys for George County, Miss. Schools want to ban two new board members from joining executive sessions discussing a lawsuit against the district. They say attorney-client privilege is at stake. Plaintiff says its another move to silence dissenters:
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Perpetrators of the Mississippi welfare scandal funneled more than $600,000 in federal funds to a conservative talk radio station and, in turn, received favorable airtime and coverage.
The state is not seeking to recoup that money.
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Lamar Johnson was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1995, says St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner.
Now 49 years old, Johnson remains in prison because Missouri’s attorney general opposes his release — but he is finally getting his day in court.
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A young mom with 4 kids—including twin boys, one with cerebral palsy, the other with autism and epilepsy—moves into a rental home near Milwaukee.
She’s been evicted twice before, so this, her new home, seems “a dream come true.”
She has no idea of the home’s history.
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ALT A two-story house with a steep roof, with shadows obscuring part of the house number. The top story is covered in stucco, the bottom in brick veneer.
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BIG TIME article featuring patients helped by Dollar For! This is why patient advocacy is so important in moving policy conversation forward. These stories are so powerful. #charitycare
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“The hospital is so large that if it were to close, we’d have to have seven Toyota-sized manufacturing plants to replace the economic value and salaries (of the hospital), which means it would never happen in our lifetime. Values of homes would drop 15% overnight.”
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Mississippi Auditor: Prison Company Must Pay $2 Million for No-Show Workers themarshallproject.org/2022/… via @MarshallProj
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In Ann Arbor, the last person in line voted at 2:05 am. She waited 6 hours to cast her ballot.
In @michigandaily: michigandaily.com/news/in-th…
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NEW: A Russian hacker group took down the Mississippi Secretary of State's website for hours in an Election Day cyber attack.
The DDoS attack did not change any votes, but prevented voters from accessing the state's polling place locator tool.
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Who did the voter really pick? Paper ballots bring an added sense of security but also the risk for human error. In Mississippi, it's up to as few as three appointees in each county to answer that question. For @wkrg @Report4America : wkrg.com/state-regional/miss…
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🧵of testimony from Pastor Reginald Buckley, today at the TANF hearing: “In 2014, the state of Mississippi took the somewhat extreme position of tying TANF support to the administration of a drug-questionnaire. 1/
A News 5 investigation found George County, MS schools remains on Probation status. A state audit found evidence of staff-sanctioned cheating for graduating seniors and a failing school board. @Report4America #ReportLocal
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A nonprofit hospital chain paid McKinsey $45 million to help them prevent low-income patients from learning about charity care the hospital was legally required to provide. Employees repeatedly demanded payment while patients lay on gurneys in the ED.
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