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Sep 15 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Jackson businesses that have suffered losses amid the Mississippi capital city’s ongoing water crisis will now be able to apply for as much as $2 million in federal Economic Injury Disaster Loans, Gov. Tate Reeves announced.
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SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans can provide Jackson businesses with up to $2 million “help meet financial obligations and operating expenses that could have been met had the disaster not occurred" based on "actual economic injury."
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See the Mississippi Free Press’ full Jackson water-crisis coverage, starting in March 2021.
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You can support our journalism as we continue to cover the #JacksonWaterCrisis by following us at @MSFreePress and with a one-time or recurring donation to our non-profit newsroom at mfp.ms/donate.

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Sep 17
THREAD: In July 2017, Brett Favre met with Mississippi DHS Director John Davis and non-profit operator Nancy New.

They would help him get millions in welfare funds to pay for a volleyball stadium at USM—where his daughter was about to play volleyball. 1/mississippifreepress.org/27465/in-depth…
This wouldn't be the first time a school Breleigh Favre attended suddenly got a volleyball stadium.

When she was a student at Oak Grove High School, her father successfully pushed for the building of a women's volleyball stadium—one of the first in MS. 2/
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After the July 2017 meeting with the MDHS director, Brett Favre texted Nancy New, the non-profit operator.

“Nancy thank you again!!! John mentioned 4 million and not sure if I heard him right. Very big deal and can’t thank you enough. 😊,” he wrote. 3/
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Sep 16
"It is a great day to be in Hattiesburg. It's also, as always, a great day to not be in Jackson."
—Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, belittling his own capital city that just spent more than 1.5 months without clean running water
Jackson is an 83% Black city. Hattiesburg is also majority Black (by a smaller margin), but the crowd in front of him in Hattiesburg today where he made this wisecrack was overwhelmingly white.
(h/t: @jallen1985) photo shows Tate Reeves spe...
When I say Mississippi's white leaders have long used Jackson as a punching bag to dog whistle to white voters, this is what I mean.

And that instinct to put down on Jackson rather than lifting Jackson up has a lot to do with its crumbling infrastructure.
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Sep 15
JUST IN: After more than a month-and-a-half without clean water, the Mississippi State Department of Health LIFTED Jackson's boil water notice that has been in place since July 29, Gov. Tate Reeves announced.
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"Residents are advised to run their faucets for a few minutes to clear any old water," the City of Jackson said in a statement at 1:20 p.m.

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency will cease distributing bottled water on Saturday.
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LET ME STRESS: This does NOT mean that Jackson's water problems are over. Far from it. An urgent issue has been fixed and residents SHOULD have safe water again for now.

But this is only a bandage. Without sustained effort, future failures WILL HAPPEN.
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Sep 14
That isn't a smirk. It's called having lips.
The racist hatred of Duchess Meghan Markle is so very unhinged that these people think the presence of lips is indicative of spite.
Kate looks more dour and Meghan looks more sentimental, but both women look like people who are mourning to me here. fwiw.
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Sep 14
NEW: Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn has appointed a 10-member "Speaker's Commission on Life" to craft legislation focused on what happens to women and children before and after pregnancy or State-forced births.
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“The Dobbs ruling presents Mississippi with the opportunity and responsibility to work with one another on building and supporting the families of unplanned pregnancies," House Speaker Philip Gunn says.
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"Mississippi has an opportunity to lead the nation in protecting, promoting and supporting life," says House Speaker Philip Gunn.

Mississippi currently leads the nation in infant deaths, miscarriage rates, firearms deaths and COVID-19 deaths.
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Sep 13
Remember those mailer memes attacking the Mississippi Free Press and targeting our editor, Donna Ladd, that someone decided to send out in Jackson by snail mail?

Well, we found out who did it. 🧵👇🏻
We know who sent them, but still don't know who funded and designed them:
Anyway, you can support the Mississippi Free Press by following us @MSFreePress AND by donating to our non-profit newsroom at mfp.ms/donate.

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