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Unacceptable. arizona voters want elected officials to focus on arizona problems, and to be beholden to a former president who lost the election in arizona is absolutely unacceptable. >> it also strikes me that there is a sort of threat to democracy right? theres also the responsiveness. who is blake masters going to listen to as u.s. senator? is he going to listen to the folks in his state of got whatever issues they have. water problems, want to talk about social security, i want to talk about...

Mississippi. jackson, the state capital, what more than 40 days without clean drinking water. the city, under one of many boil water advisories. its main water treatment facility were already damaged, and flooding last month, caused the system to almost, completely, fail, leaving residents without water to drink, cook with, or flush their toilets. people lined up, for hours, just to get cases of clean water. but the boil water notice, since, been lifted. many locals remain hesitant. just this we...

Even before you were mayor. so, are you in agreement or disagreement with these four residents who claim that there have been water problems in jackson, mississippi, for decades? thats at the crux of their class action suit. >> yeah. im absolutely in agreement there have been challenges with the water distribution system for decades. once again, when theres litigation, theres limitation for what i can say, but what i will share is that the city has, you know, been very persistent in its efforts ...

The advisory was in place before torrential rains flooded the pearl river last month and overwhelmed the citys water treatment facility. jackson residents were forced to rely on bottled water and some had to wait in long lines to get it. they say theyre grateful the system is working again. water problems in mississippis capital city have been going on for years, pipes across the system are old and leaky and the state has not dedicated sufficient money to repairs. lets welcome cherelle barber ...

Gov. Tate Reeves says the boil-water advisory has been lifted for the city of Jackson.

Way and suing and preventing us from being able to get some sort of policies done that could be beneficial to our communities. for him to focus on republicans when democrats have controlled every statewide elected office and have super majorities in both assembly and senate and still find some way to blame the people who are in the minority is as nine. >> dana: wondering if you think about the people in your district. the work in agriculture or energy and dealing with inflation, are they connect...

A state regulatory agency and the Housatonic Water Works Co. blame each other for a delay in installing equipment that will test a filtration system that could fix the problem

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National tension for the people in jackson mississippi can have some confidence that the drinking clean water. >> and the mayor jackson said that this was a result of decades of neglect and underinvestment. one of the things that struck me also was a lot of other mayors and cities and towns of theyre probably saying that that could be us. are you concerned the aging infrastructure together with both flooding and droughts from climate change will make water problems like these more common in the ...

Jackson residents have been bracing for something like this. boil water notices, outages, those have just been a routine occurrence here. theres a lot of excitement about the bipartisan infrastructure deal that passed last year. mississippi is a poor state with a lot of infrastructure problems. the problem is, ali, though, is that there is red tape. it takes time for that money to get out the door. cities and counties have to come up with plans and they have to give those plans to push out the f...