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Mississippi Capitol, state Supreme Court buildings reopened after second bomb threat
UPDATE: The Mississippi Department of Public Safety cleared the Mississippi State Capitol building and the Mississippi Supreme Court building around 10:30 a.m. on Thursday after sweeping the buildings following a bomb threat early in the morning, according to communications officials with DPS and the Administrative Office of the Courts
Judges, legislators and Capitol staffers lined the sidewalks in downtown Jackson Thursday morning after the Mississippi Supreme Court received a bomb threat, a spokesperson for the state Department of Public Safety said.
“Precautionary measures are being taken at the Mississippi State Capitol and Supreme Court buildings,” DPS spokesperson Bailey Martin said in a statement. “Standard emergency procedures are being followed.”
This is the second day in a row that a government building in the state has received a bomb threat. The Mississippi State Capitol, which is across High Street from the Supreme Court, received a bomb threat Wednesday. Law enforcement agencies swept the building and did not detect any explosive or suspicious material inside the building.
READ MORE: Mississippi Capitol reopened after bomb threat on second day of legislative session
The Mississippi Legislature is in the middle of its 2024 legislative session, and most of Mississippi’s statewide officials are slated to be sworn into office at 2 p.m. today.
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On this day in 1750
Nov. 4, 1750
Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, the โFather of Chicago,โ was born.
A man of African descent, he became the first known settler in the area that became the city of Chicago. He married a Potawatomi woman, Kitiwaha (Catherine), and they had two children.
According to records, the property included a log cabin with two barns, a horse-drawn mill, a bakehouse, a poultry house, a dairy, a smokehouse, a fenced garden and an orchard. At his trading post, DuSable served Native Americans, British and French explorers and spoke a number of languages.
โHe was actually arrested by the British for being thought of as an American Patriot sympathizer,โ Julius Jones, curator at the Chicago History Museum told WLS, but DuSable beat those charges.
In Chicago today, a school, street, museum, harbor, park and bridge bear his name. The place where he settled near the mouth of the Chicago River is now a National Historic Landmark, part of the city’s Pioneer Court.
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Podcast: Mississippiโs top election official discusses Tuesdayโs election
Secretary of State Michael Watson talks with Mississippi Today’s Geoff Pender, Bobby Harrison and Taylor Vance ahead of Tuesday’s election. He urges voters to remember sacrifices many have made to protect Americans’ voting rights and get to the polls, and he weighs in on whether a recent court ruling on absentee vote counting will impact this year’s elections.
READ MORE: As lawmakers look to cut taxes, Mississippi mayors and county leaders outline infrastructure needs
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Insurance chief willing to sue feds if Gov. Reeves doesnโt support state health exchangeย
State Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney is willing to sue the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services if it does not allow Mississippi to create a state-based health insurance exchange because of Republican Gov. Tate Reeves’ potential opposition.
Federal officials, who must approve of a state implementing its own health insurance exchange, want a letter of approval from a state’s governor before they allow a state to implement the program, according to Chaney.
โI don’t know what the governor’s going to do,โ Chaney told Mississippi Today. โI think he’ll probably wait until after the election to make a decision. But I’m willing to sue CMS if that’s what it takes.โ
The five-term commissioner, a Republican, said his requests to Reeves, also a Republican, to discuss the policy have gone unanswered. The governor’s office did not respond to a request to comment on this story.
Earlier this year, the Legislature passed a law authorizing Chaney’s agency to create a Mississippi-based exchange to replace the federal exchange that currently is used by Mississippians to obtain health insurance. The bill became law without the governor’s signature.
States that operate their own exchanges can typically attract more companies to write health insurance policies and offer people policies at lower costs, and it would likely save the state millions of dollars in payments to the federal government.
Chaney also said he’s been consulting with former Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, who also supported some version of a state-based exchange while in office, about implementing a state-based program.
Currently, 21 states plus the District of Columbia have state-based exchanges, though three still operate from the federal platform. Should he follow through and sue the federal government, Chaney said he would use outside counsel and several other states told him they would join the lawsuit.
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