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Culture  |  Guest Editorial  • 
July 20, 2022

SALTER: Mississippi farmers are still wary of international impacts on exports, market conditions

By: Sid Salter For both U.S. and Mississippi farmers, China is the primary export market for their crops and current forecasts anticipate record sales – if conditions in the forecast models hold. That’s a big “if.” The most recent U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts from the quarterly “Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade” from the agency’s…
Culture  |  Frank Corder  • 
July 20, 2022

Congressional Democrats, fearing attacks on same sex marriage, push through “Respect for Marriage Act”

Mississippi’s Republican Congressmen not among 47 GOP lawmakers that joined Democrats to pass the bill. The state’s lone Democrat Congressman did vote for it.  The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday on H.R. 8404 titled the “Respect for Marriage Act” aimed at codifying same sex marriage over Democrats’ fears that the U.S. Supreme Court could…