No answers, no money: Lauderdale officials end funding to state health agency for county health department

by Devna Bose, Mississippi Today August 10, 2023 The Lauderdale County Board of Supervisors decided this year not to award over $200,000 to the state health agency for the operation of the county health department as it had done the previous year. But Lauderdale officials say that’s not because they don’t care about public health — in fact, they’re spending more than $2 million of their pandemic relief funds upgrading the facility’s air-conditioning system.

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