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July 14, 2021
SALTER: Social Security clock still ticking as pandemic imperils future of retirement safety net
By:Sid Salter Understanding the impact of Social Security on Mississippi’s economy and on our people is a heavy lift. Let’s start with the basics. Nationwide in 2019, 54.1 million people received Social Security old age benefits, 9.9 million received disability benefits, and 61.2 million were covered under the Medicare program, that according to the Social…
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July 13, 2021
NFIB Survey: Labor Shortage Remains a Challenge for Small Businesses as Inflation Increases
The NFIB Optimism Index increased 2.9 points in June to 102.5, the first time the Index exceeded 100 since November 2020. Seven of the 10 Index components improved and three declined. The NFIB Uncertainty Index increased four points to 83. “Small businesses optimism is rising as the economy opens up, yet a record number of employers continue…
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Anne Summerhays
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July 12, 2021
Congressional delegates join millions of Americans in support of the people of Cuba
Cubans took to the streets to protest severe economic shortages and lack of freedoms; eruption of discontent not seen in nearly 30 years. Activists and analysts called it the first time that so many people had openly protested against the Communist government since the so-called Maleconazo uprising in the summer of 1994. The protests were…
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July 9, 2021
Senator Hyde-Smith Tours Taylor Machine Works
The Mississippi Senator participated in a “I Make America” event. The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and The Taylor Group of Companies hosted United States Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) for a special I Make America event at Taylor Machine Works in Louisville, Mississippi. The event highlighted the importance of American equipment manufacturing and celebrated the men and…
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Magnolia Tribune
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July 9, 2021
Wicker Announces $1.875 Million to Establish Business Center in Mississippi
Award Would Support Minority Businesses in the State U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today announced the U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) awarded Tri-County Contractors, Inc. in Jackson $375,000 to launch a MBDA Business Center in Mississippi. The award, which will granted each year for five years, represents a $1.875 million planned…
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Frank Corder
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July 6, 2021
CORDER: Medicaid expansion poses huge fiscal risks for Mississippi no one is talking about
The actual math doesn’t work in the Magnolia State. To hear the Mississippi legacy media and Democratic Party stalwarts tell it, “only a fool would not take the money” that the federal government is offering to bribe states to expand Medicaid. The talking heads are practically hyperventilating over the prospect to the point where you’d think…
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Magnolia Tribune
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July 6, 2021
Camgian creating 25 new jobs in Starkville
The company was found in Starkville in 2006. High-tech research and development and product development company Camgian Microsystems, Inc., is expanding in the Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park in Starkville. The company is adding 25 new jobs to support its growth. “Camgian is a golden example of a high-tech Mississippi company doing…
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Magnolia Tribune
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July 2, 2021
MCRAE: Liberty, Freedom, and Fairness
By: Treasurer David McRae In the hours after John Adams placed his freedom-delivering vote on July 2, 1776, he predicted America’s independence would be celebrated by succeeding generations with “bonfires and illuminations from one End of the Continent to the other.” He wasn’t wrong. The feeling of celebratory unity that must have been shared that…
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June 30, 2021
Viking Metal investing $908k in facility, creating 15 jobs in Philadelphia, Mississippi
The investment is in response to metal building materials supply needs. Metal fabricator Viking Metal has located metal building materials manufacturing operations in Philadelphia. The project is a $908,000 corporate investment and will create 15 jobs. “Small businesses are the backbone of Mississippi’s economy, and I commend Barry Clark and the team at Viking Metal…
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Frank Corder
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June 30, 2021
Federal government’s “half-in, half-out” approach to marijuana leaves Mississippi banks, law enforcement in limbo
Mississippi Legislature could have a bill to establish a medical marijuana program before start of 2022 session. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear arguments in the case of a medical marijuana dispensary in Colorado that appealed a decision that denied them federal tax deductions that were available to other types of business owners. The…
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Anne Summerhays
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June 30, 2021
Mississippi Secretary of State Watson’s “Tackle the Tape” Initiative marks one year
The Secretary of State’s Office launched their “Tackle the Tape” Initiative last July. The Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office’s “Tackle the Tape” initiative sought to cut regulations that are anti-competitive and that do not secure the safety and well-being of Mississippians. The initiative, began a year ago, planned to increase economic opportunities for individuals across…
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Frank Corder
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June 29, 2021
California bans state-funded travel to 5 more states bringing the total to 17, including Mississippi
Mississippi Fairness Act becomes law July 1, 2021. California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Monday that California will restrict state-funded travel to Arkansas, Florida, Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia as a result of “new anti-LGBTQ+ legislation recently enacted in each state.” “The states are a part of a recent, dangerous wave of discriminatory…
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Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press
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December 23, 2024
Civil rights icon James Meredith is honored in his Mississippi hometown
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Frank Corder
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December 23, 2024
Guest, others dissent in release of Gaetz House Ethics report, call it a “dangerous departure”
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Frank Corder
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December 23, 2024
Wicker, Hyde-Smith retain key U.S. Senate committee assignments in next Congress
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Frank Corder
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December 16, 2024
Stark Aerospace adding nearly 100 jobs in Columbus to support new U.S. Navy contract
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Lynne Jeter
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December 11, 2024
Mississippi Artificial Intelligence Network awarded $7.1 Million in RESTORE funding
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Frank Corder
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December 10, 2024
DeLisle announced as site for new PCC GulfChem plant
Culture
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Stephen Griffin
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December 24, 2024
New coalition looks to reimagine Jackson’s connection to Pearl River
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C.H. Spurgeon
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December 24, 2024
Christ revealed
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Parrish Alford
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December 23, 2024
Ole Miss donors have bought in to NIL. Miss. State is coming around
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Rebecca Grant
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December 23, 2024
Boosting the maritime industrial base for Navy combat power
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Steven Gassenberger
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December 18, 2024
The PERS $25 billion problem
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Sid Salter
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December 18, 2024
GOP’s Clarke Reed fundamentally changed partisan politics in Mississippi and the South
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