3/4/21 - Health & Municipal Leaders React | Water Crisis' New Setback | Teacher Pay Raise | Book Club: B.B. King - a podcast by MPB Think Radio

Health and municipal leaders respond the the Governor’s decision to roll back mitigation efforts:

And restoration of water in the Capital city takes a step backwards.

Then, a teacher pay raise is hanging by a thread in the state legislature. We hear from one professional education group.

Plus, in our book club - "The Life and Legacy of B. B. King.”

Segment 1:

Mississippians are no longer under executive order to wear mask in public or limit the size of social gatherings. Governor Tate Reeves removed those restrictions in a new executive order that went into effect yesterday evening. Reeves claims the state's improved vaccination rates will be enough to help alleviate strain on the state's hospital systems. But only 14 percent of Mississippians have received their first dose of a vaccine. Leaders at the local level and in health care worry the decision to open the state up might be coming too early. MPB's Kobee Vance discusses with Dr. LouAnn Woodward, Vice Chancellor of the University of Mississippi Medical Center and Starkville Mayor Lynn Spurill.

Mississippi's capital city is still struggling with water problems more than two weeks after winter storms and freezing weather ravaged the system in Jackson. City officials are now trying to overcome another setback in their efforts to restore water to all residents. Yesterday, Public Works Director Charles Williams said debris clogged screens where water moves from a reservoir into a treatment plant. That caused pressure to drop for the entire water system.

Segment 2:

A long-promised teacher pay raise is still alive in the Mississippi legislature after members in the Senate pushed out a clean, stand-alone bill in the waning hours of Tuesday's Deadline Day. The Senate's original bill that included a $1,000 raise died in the House. The politicking has some education advocates concerned over the future of teacher pay raises in a state far below the southeastern average. Kelly Riley is Executive Director of Mississippi Professional Educators. She tells our Michael Guidry teachers are saddened to see the issue handled in this manner.

Segment 3:

Mississippi icon, B.B. King, spent his life playing the blues and introducing other musicians to the genre he embraced. Author, Diane Williams, shares the story of King’s humble beginnings along with a series of interviews with bandmates and family in “The Life and Legacy of B.B. King.”

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