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Mississippi Senate Insurance Committee Chairman Walter Michel, R-Ridgeland, speaks Feb. 1, 2023, in the state Capitol in Jackson. Michel on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, explained a bill that would set rules for how insurance companies decide whether to cover medical procedures or prescription drugs. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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Mississippi could regulate insurers' prior authorization for coverage of medical services

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wed,01/31/24-2:00PM, 76 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi senators voted Wednesday to set rules for how insurance companies decide whether to cover medical procedures or prescription drugs, a process known as prior authorization.
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Editorial Roundup: Mississippi

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wed,01/31/24-12:43PM, 90 Reads
Greenwood Commonwealth. January 30, 2024.
Editorial: Court Considers Felony Voting Case
It is very unlikely that the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will agree with last year’s ruling by three of its judges that Mississippi’s permanent voting ban for people convicted of certain felonies is unconstitutional.
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A damaged Satanic display is shown at the Iowa state Capitol on Dec. 15, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. A Mississippi man who admitted to destroying a statue of a pagan idol at Iowa’s state capitol has been charged with a hate crime. The statue was brought to the capitol by the Satanic Temple of Iowa under state rules allowing religious displays in the capitol during the holidays. The move drew strong criticism from state and national leaders. On Dec. 14, the figure depicting the horned deity Baphomet was “destroyed beyond repair,” according to the group. (AP Photo/Scott McFetridge, file)

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Man accused of destroying Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol is now charged with hate crime

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wed,01/31/24-9:15AM, 79 Reads
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Mississippi man accused of destroying a statue of a pagan idol at Iowa's state Capitol is now being charged with a hate crime.
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Missouri state Sen. Bill Eigel, a Republican member of the state Freedom Caucus, waives a paper containing criticisms of the Freedom Caucus that had been prepared by Republican Senate leaders for a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, at the state Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. Republican leaders had left the paper on a lectern which the Freedom Caucus then used for its own press conference. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)

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Some Republican leaders are pushing back against the conservative Freedom Caucus in statehouses

By DAVID A. LIEB DAVID A. LIEB - Associated Press
Tue,01/30/24-11:26PM, 75 Reads
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — On the first day of Missouri's new legislative session, Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden tried to cajole colleagues into congeniality with a rhetorical question: “Will we focus on principled progress or political pandemonium?”
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