The Other Side: Mississippi Today's Political Podcast

Nicole Akins Boyd, R-Oxford, a first-term state senator, talks with Mississippi Today's Geoff Pender and Bobby Harrison about ways to improve the lives of mothers and children in light of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. She is chairing the nine-member Senate Study Group on Women, Children and Families created by Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann.

Mississippi Today's political team discusses an important week that will officially kick off the anticipated 2023 statewide and legislative election cycle.

Investigative reporter Anna Wolfe joins Mississippi Today's Adam Ganucheau and Geoff Pender to discuss a dramatic legal development in the state's ongoing welfare scandal case. The trio also break down where the investigation sits today and where it may be headed.

Mississippi Today reporters Isabelle Taft, Geoff Pender and Bobby Harrison discuss issues related to abortion and health care in Mississippi in light of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision saying abortion is no longer a protected right under the federal Constitution. But importantly, how does the 1998 state Supreme Court decision saying there is a right to an abortion factor into the new world created by the overturning of Roe v. Wade on the federal level?

Mississippi Today political reporters Geoff Pender and Bobby Harrison discuss the results of the U.S. House party primary runoff elections where an unusual event occurred and also discuss some surprising twists in the aftermath of the landmark reversal of Roe. v. Wade.

Mississippi Hospital Association President Tim Moore says the state's health care providers are teetering financially and that once pandemic stimulus funds run dry "It's going to be time to pay the band." MHA has pushed for Mississippi, the poorest state in the nation, to adopt Medicaid expansion and accept about $1 billion a year in federal dollars to provide health coverage to Mississippi's working poor and help hospitals stay afloat.

Mississippi Today's Bobby Harrison and Geoff Pender talk litany of issues with state Rep. John Hines, D-Greenville, ranging from Gov. Tate Reeves' partial vetoes to Medicaid expansion to the scandal at the Department of Human Services.

Mississippi Today's Adam Ganucheau and Bobby Harrison break down the 3rd Congressional District runoff between incumbent Rep. Michael Guest and challenger Michael Cassidy, as well as the 4th Congressional District runoff between incumbent Rep. Steven Palazzo and challenger Mike Ezell.

Mississippi Today's political team breaks down this week's congressional primaries and looks ahead to potential November general election matchups.