Political Wire: “A Florida school district banned the showing of a film about Ruby Bridges — the young girl who became a civil rights icon by wading through a White mob to integrate an elementary school in the South in 1960, the Weekly Challenger reports. Reports indicate that, once again, a single parent provoked the district’s action toward censorship, and…

NY Times: “Since its opening in a converted wood-frame mansion 117 years ago, Greenwood Leflore Hospital had become a medical hub for this part of Mississippi’s fertile but impoverished Delta, with 208 beds, an intensive-care unit, a string of walk-in clinics and a modern brick-and-glass building. But on a recent weekday, it counted just 13…

North State Journal: ” N.C. State Treasurer Dale Folwell will run for governor in 2024, he announced while speaking at the Forsyth County GOP Convention in Clemmons on March 25.   “I chose this event out of respect for those whose shoulders have carried me in my political career,” said Folwell. “The root word of governor is to govern, and…

The White House: “On Tuesday, March 28th, President Biden will travel to Durham, North Carolina to kick off his Administration’s Investing in America tour. The tour will highlight how President Biden’s Investing in America agenda – including historic investments from the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and the…

WRAL: ““I am human. I am not perfect,” Wood told the court Thursday. “I apologize to the people of North Carolina who have trusted me.” Wood had been attending a holiday gathering before the Dec. 8 crash. She said Thursday that she had consumed two glasses of wine at the party but was not impaired…

MS Today: “Only a few dozen cars sit in Greenwood Leflore Hospital’s parking lot. The hospital’s windows, streaked with purple paint, read, “Stay strong!” Another one says, “We love our patients!” Behind the glass, magazines sit untouched on side tables — the lobby is vacant. Greenwood Leflore is the community’s only hospital, and it’s months away…

Fox News: “A school principal in Tallahassee, Florida was forced to resign after parents complained about a Renaissance art lesson that showed students Michelangelo’s sculpture of the Bible’s David.  Tallahassee Classical School Principal Hope Carrasquilla stepped down Monday during an emergency school board meeting after only a year, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. Barney Bishop, the school board’s…

WaPo: “She wanted to hear Henry’s voice again. So she went to her son’s room on an overcast February day and started digging through the boxes he left behind, looking for something he’d written to give her guidance. Henry Berg-Brousseau always knew what to say. Eight years had passed since he’d told Kentucky lawmakers how…

WUNC: “A Medicaid expansion deal in North Carolina received final legislative approval on Thursday, capping a decade of debate over whether the closely politically divided state should accept the federal government’s coverage for hundreds of thousands of low-income adults. North Carolina is one of several Republican-led states that have begun considering expanding Medicaid after years of steadfast…

Time: “Republican lawmakers in Florida appear likely to expand provisions in the Parental Rights in Education Act, or so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law with a host of new restrictions on what teachers can and cannot say in their classrooms about gender, sex, and sexual orientation. Bills currently being debated in the Florida state House would make it…