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Opinion: Water czar Henifin is turning around Jackson’s water

By WYATT EMMERICH WYATT EMMERICH
Thu,06/08/23-2:24PM, 516 Reads 22,016 Statewide
It was packed at Hal & Mal’s as a hundred or so Jackson movers and shakers came to enjoy red beans and rice and hear the latest from Jackson’s federal water czar Ted Henifin.
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Fentanyl test strips sit atop magazines in the waiting area of Urban Kutz Barbershop in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 11, 2023. Owner Waverly Willis sets them out in his businesses, hoping to protect people in his community from overdosing on drugs they're unaware contain the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl. A growing number of states are legalizing the test strips, which are often labeled as illegal drug paraphernalia, in an effort to prevent overdose deaths. (Waverly Willis via AP)

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Lifesaving fentanyl test strips still illegal in some states under '70s-era war on drugs law

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON - Associated Press/Report For America
Wed,06/07/23-11:30PM, 264 Reads
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — At Cleveland's Urban Kutz Barbershop, customers can flip through magazines as they wait, or help themselves to drug screening tests left out in a box on a table with a somber message: “Your drugs could contain fentanyl. Please take free test strips.”
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Jim Markley, the owner of CJ Orchards Farm, holds a single peach that managed to endure some warm temperatures on May 31, 2013, in Rutledge, Ga. Climate change is driving warmer winters, and in several cities in the U.S. South farmers have struggled with crop losses or had to replant fields. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

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As winter warms, farmers in southern US find ways to adapt

By MELINA WALLING MELINA WALLING - Associated Press
Wed,06/07/23-11:07PM, 225 Reads
When Pam Knox walked into the peach orchard at the University of Georgia horticulture farm this spring, there was nothing on the trees except leaves and a couple of brown fruits — the result of one of the state's warmest winters ever followed by two nights of freezing weather in March.
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Cyrus Ben, chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, watches with other Mississippi flag commission members as proposed state flag designs are flown outside the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, Miss., Aug. 25, 2020. The tribe announced on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, that Ben had won a second term as chief. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians elects Ben for 2nd term as chief

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wed,06/07/23-6:20PM, 346 Reads
CHOCTAW, Miss. (AP) — Cyrus Ben has won a second term as chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
Ben defeated former chief Phyliss Anderson and one other candidate, Tarina Anderson, in Tuesday's election, according to tribal election results posted on the Choctaws' Facebook page.
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