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Award-winning reporter in the American South. Climate reporter @Reckon Scottish Royal Navy veteran Columbia University 12' Not here much. Find me on Bluesky.
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As Trump supports pesticide makers, new studies highlight Mississippi Delta cancer concerns

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By Christopher Harress
| msindy.org
A majority of Mississippi Delta counties contain cancer clusters linked to the high use of controversial herbicides, according to two recently published reports, which place one of the nation’s most regions at the center of a renewed national fight over the safety of the chemical glyphosate. The studies focus on 500 U.S. counties that use large volumes of pesticides and have accessible cancer data, including 11 Delta counties in the fertile northwestern section of Mississippi.
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‘Please, Judge, Help Me’: A letter from jail, then an unexplained death

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By Christopher Harress
| msindy.org
It was 1 p.m. when Angel Readus received a chilling message from an inmate inside one of Mississippi’s most violent prisons. “You need to call down to the prison, something is going on with your brother,” read the message, sent through Facebook Messenger from inside the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, in the city of Pearl. It was a disturbing sentence for Readus to read when her sibling was incarcerated inside a system with a reputation for brutality, neglect and death.
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End of federal hunger tracker shrouds Mississippi food crisis as food banks and families grapple with SNAP freeze

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By Christopher Harress
| Substack
The legal saga over November’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments recently took two new turns, starting with the federal government warning states to “immediately undo” any attempts to pay the benefit, following a Nov. 7, 2025, Supreme Court ruling that temporarily allowed the Trump administration to withhold payments to 42 million low-income Americans. Then, on Sunday, a lower court ruling offered a possible reprieve for people who receive assistance through SNAP.
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