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Mississippi Edition

Airs weekdays at 8:30 a.m. on MPB Think Radio

In a continued effort to provide relevant, interesting and engaging programming to our statewide audience, MPB Think Radio provides Mississippi Edition, a weekday news magazine program. Mississippi Edition, hosted by Kar
Latest Episode6/11/2021

6/11/2021 - Floods | Enhanced Unemployment Ends | Healthcare Workers & COVID-19 | H.C. Porter

Heavy rain and floods in North Mississippi.Then, enhanced unemployment benefits are set to expire.Plus, we check in with healthcare workers more than a year after COVID-19 first reached Mississippi.And, a conversation with artist H.C. Porter.
6/11/2021

6/11/2021 - Floods | Enhanced Unemployment Ends | Healthcare Workers & COVID-19 | H.C. Porter

Heavy rain and floods in North Mississippi.Then, enhanced unemployment benefits are set to expire.Plus, we check in with healthcare workers more than a year after COVID-19 first reached Mississippi.And, a conversation with artist H.C. Porter.
6/10/2021

6/10/21 - Floods | Pop-Up Vaccine Clinics | Rural Policing | Writer Curtis Wilkie

Flooding in North Mississippi forces evacuations.Plus, we visit a pop-up vaccine clinic in Richland.Then, a look at policing in rural Mississippi.And, in today's Book Club, the power and violence of the Ku Klux Klan in 1960s Jones County.
6/9/2021

6/9/2021 - State of the State | Gun Violence | Southwest Airlines

A new survey probes Mississippi's appetite for medical marijuana and expanded Medicaid.Then, Mississippi communities battle a rising tide of gun violence.And, after a Southern Remedy Health Minute, a major airline returns to Jackson.
6/8/2021

6/8/2021 - Congressman Bennie Thompson | Vaccine Hesitancy | New Alzheimer's Drug

Congressman Bennie Thompson says a higher minimum wage, among other reforms, can better the lives of poor Mississippians.Then, community leaders talk vaccine hesitancy.And, a new Alzheimer's drug faces questions of efficacy and accessibility.
6/7/2021

6/7/2021 - COVID-19 Vaccinations | Municipal Elections | The Riverside Hotel

Mississippi officials deliver a COVID-19 progress report.Then, concerns about voter turnout loom over the state's municipal elections.And, a Clarksdale hotel is one of America's most endangered historical sites.
6/4/2021

6/4/2021 - Medical Marijuana | Moderna Seeks FDA Approval | Abortion | School Funding

The Mississippi Senate Public Health and Welfare committee holds a hearing on medical marijuana.Plus, Moderna files for full FDA approval of its COVID-19 vaccine.Then, Mississippi's abortion debate intensifies in the lead-up to a pivotal Supreme Court case.And, a look at how the state spends on schools.
6/3/2021

6/3/2021 - Disaster Mitigation Funding | Summer Reading | The South in Film

Mississippi is the only state not to apply for disaster mitigation funding under a new federal program.Then, summer resources designed to boost Mississippi's literacy rate kick into gear.And, writer Ben Beard examines how the South is portrayed in film.