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Podcast: Gov. Ronnie Musgrove talks 2023 governor’s race and Brandon Presley’s chances
Former Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove, the last Democrat in the state to serve in the Governor's Mansion, joins Mississippi Today's Adam Ganucheau, Bobby Harrison and Geoff Pender to discuss the wild statewide election year. He shares his views on Brandon Presley, the Democrat vying for the office this year, and what it might take for Presley to defeat Republican Gov. Tate Reeves.
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On this day in 1863
April 17, 1863
As darkness fell on San Francisco, a young Black woman named Charlotte Brown walked a block from her home on Filbert Street and took a seat on the “whites-only” horse-drawn streetcar.
She and her family had moved to California from Maryland, a part of the city's burgeoning Black middle class. Her father, James E. Brown, was an anti-slavery crusader and was a partner in the Black newspaper, Mirror of the Times.
When the conductor came to collect tickets, she handed him the ticket she had purchased, only for him to refuse to take it.
“He replied that colored persons were not allowed to ride,” she later testified. “I told him I had been in the habit of riding ever since the cars had been running. I answered that I had a great ways to go and I was later than I ought to be.”
The conductor asked her several times to leave. Each time she refused. When a white woman objected to her presence, the conductor grabbed her by the arm and forced her off the streetcar. She boarded twice more with the same result and sued.
Two years later, a jury awarded her the huge sum in her day of $500 (streetcar tickets were just 5 cents), and a judge ruled that barring passengers on the basis of race was illegal. He wrote in his ruling that he had no desire to “perpetuate a relic of barbarism.”
Her victories paved the way for the official end of racial discrimination on streetcars in San Francisco and beyond.
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Wingate orders release of SNAP data for JXN Water discounts
U.S. District Court Judge Henry Wingate ordered the release of government benefits data on Tuesday to allow Jackson's third-party water manager to carry out a first-of-its-kind approach to billing.
The order calls on government agencies, mainly the Mississippi Department of Human Services, to release data to the manager, JXN Water, showing who in the capital city receives benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Late last year, JXN Water's Ted Henifin released a new billing system proposal that would raise rates for most but provide discounted bills for those receiving SNAP.
The proposal hit a snag in the last few months, as both MDHS and the U.S. Department of Justice opposed JXN Water's motions asking the court to require that the agencies release a list of SNAP recipients. The two agencies argued that doing so would violate privacy laws that are a part of the program. MDHS also said it didn't have the capacity to provide such assistance without funding.
In Tuesday's order, Wingate says that JXN Water's SNAP discounts are equivalent to a federal assistance program.
“The prompt implementation of the most recent rate schedule is critical to ensuring that residents pay equitably for public drinking water and sewer services,” the judge wrote.
In its proposal, JXN Water said the new discounts would save those residents 69 cents a day on average. Census data from 2022 shows that almost 10,000 Jackson households, or about 16% of the city's homes, receive SNAP. When presenting the new structure last November, Henifin said the model would be the first of its kind in the country for a water system.
But since the new water bill system went into place in on Feb. 1, JXN Water says it hasn't been able to apply the discounts because it doesn't know who receives SNAP. Wingate's order this week gives the government agencies until the of month, April 30, to provide the data and requires them to give quarterly updates of the list of recipients starting in July.
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Podcast: It’s Scottie Scheffler’s world and the rest of us golf in it.
His Masters performance reinforces Scottie Scheffler's role as golf's No. 1 guy, but watch out for Ludvig Aberg. Plus, the Ole Miss baseball team shows that reports of its early demise were greatly exaggerated. Lane Kiffin shows what many of us have suspected all along: Spring football games are a waste of energy. The Clevelands also take a dive into the WNBA draft.
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