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Inching toward expansion
By TIM KALICH - Greenwood Commonwealth
Fri,04/26/24-6:51PM , 582 Reads 14,108 Statewide
I began writing in support of Medicaid expansion for Mississippi in 2012, two years before the first states came online with the expansion encouraged and incentivized by the Affordable Care Act.
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A crowd gathers in the parking lot on the night of April 26, 2023, to watch Greenwood firefighters work to put out the fire that destroyed Turnrow Book Co. A year later, the bookstore’s owner says he is still committed to restoring the popular gathering spot downtown. (By Andy Lo, Copyright 2024 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.)

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Turnrow fire a year ago left void in community
By TIM KALICH - Greenwood Commonwealth
Fri,04/26/24-6:31AM , 965 Reads 22,500 Statewide
A year later, Shelby Gorman still remembers getting nauseous in anticipation of the fire damage that awaited her at Turnrow Book Co.
“It’s just that awful feeling in your gut that you’re about to see something terrible or upsetting,” said the manager of the beloved bookstore.
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Bill to create regional health group dies
By TIM KALICH - Greenwood Commonwealth
Sat,04/13/24-12:05AM , 765 Reads 17,423 Statewide
A proposal to create a regional body to run a voluntary collaboration of Delta hospitals has died in the Legislature, but those who have been pushing the idea are not giving up despite their disappointment.
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The husband of a nurse who drowned Wednesday night in a ditch off U.S. 49E, south of Greenwood, says authorities were too late in posting signs like this and taking other preventive measures to warn motorists about the flooded highway that claimed his wife’s life. (By Tim Kalich, Copyright 2024 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.)

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‘I’m pissed’: Husband says road should have been blocked
By TIM KALICH - Greenwood Commonwealth
Fri,04/12/24-11:51PM , 1,247 Reads 48,334 Statewide
The husband of the nurse who drowned when her car was swept off a flooded Leflore County highway Wednesday is furious the road wasn’t blocked off before his wife reached the life-threatening stretch.
And he says he’s planning to sue the Mississippi Department of Transportation and two county governments over her death.
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