Among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, Mississippi ranks the 45th worst for internet coverage, according to the research group BroadbandNow.
Democratic Sen. Barbara Blackmon of Canton, who is Black, compared the proposal to laws that racist white people enacted to suppress Black people after Reconstruction.
Legislators face deadlines later in the Session for bills dealing with budgets, taxes and borrowing.
Years before people in Jackson were recently left without running water for several days, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves claimed to have helped block money to fund water system repairs in the capital city. Reeves, a Republican, blames Jackson’s water crisis on mismanagement at the city level. The city’s latest water troubles are far from its first, and…
