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Sarah Ulmer
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December 5, 2018
SALTER: Bush’s long friendship with Montgomery served Mississippi and both men well
By: Sid Salter George Herbert Walker Bush and Gillespie V. “Sonny” Montgomery were both elected to Congress on Nov. 8, 1966 and both took office on Jan. 3, 1967. Unknown to either of them at the time, it was the beginning of a long and meaningful friendship. As freshmen in Congress, central Mississippi’s Montgomery, the…
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Sarah Ulmer
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December 4, 2018
Medicaid EASE Initiative aims to improve access to needed services
DOM’s EASE Initiative aims to improve access to needed services for Medicaid beneficiaries Effective Jan. 1, 2019, the Mississippi Division of Medicaid (DOM) is increasing the number of physician visits it covers for Medicaid beneficiaries, the first of a series of changes the agency plans to roll out in the coming year. The move is…
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Sarah Ulmer
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November 28, 2018
OPINION: Hyde-Smith Defeats Espy
With Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s victory in the special election runoff to fill the remainder of Sen. Thad Cochran’s term, Mississippi voters did what they have done for the past 30 years; vote for a Republican Senator. By: Brett Kittredge, Director of Marketing and Communications for Mississippi Center for Public Policy. To find the last time a…
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Sarah Ulmer
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November 28, 2018
SALTER: State’s muddy U.S. Senate Class II race cost $20 million and two candidates’ reputations
By: Sid Salter In 2018, Mississippi voters elected two U.S. senators. The two elections saw about $27. 6 million expended with $11 million of that coming from partisan outside groups – and armed with that money, Mississippians witnessed the near destruction of the reputations of at least two of those candidates. First – at a…
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Sarah Ulmer
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November 27, 2018
Mississippi PEER Committee Releases Report on Medicaid’s Non-Emergency Transportation Services
The Mississippi Legislative PEER Committee is releasing its report titled A Review of the Procurement and Oversight of the Division of Medicaid’s Non-Emergency Transportation Brokerage Contract. Senate Bill 2836 (2018 Regular Session) requires the PEER Committee to conduct a performance evaluation of the Division of Medicaid’s NET program not later than January 1, 2019, and…
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Sarah Ulmer
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November 27, 2018
President Trump visits Mississippi to campaign for Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith one day before election
President Donald Trump made his first appearance of two in the Magnolia state in Tupelo on Monday night, just one day before polls open to vote in the U.S. Senate runoff that has become quite a heated race between Senator Hyde-Smith and Mike Espy. Then the President headed to the coast to appear in Biloxi,…
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Sarah Ulmer
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November 21, 2018
Espy and Hyde-Smith lay it all out in runoff debate
Tuesday night, November 20, Mississippi Farm Bureau hosted a debate between Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mike Espy. The debate was intended to focus on the issues and bring to light each candidates platform on things like education, the 2nd amendment, infrastructure, abortion, immigration, and tax reform. The debate lasted one hour and there were 14…
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Sarah Ulmer
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November 17, 2018
Group gathers in Jackson to protest sitting Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith
A small group of protestors gathered in Jackson near Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith’s campaign office downtown on Friday, to rally for her resignation prior to the November 27 election. The group of around 20 people began short segments of chants around noon on Friday with phrases like “Hell no, Cindy gotta go,” and “No hate, in…
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Sarah Ulmer
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November 16, 2018
Reihan Salam, author talks immigration reform and recent book on a case against open borders
“The most common thing I hear people say about conservatives is that they ‘don’t really care about the future of the country the just hate people who are different,’ and that has never been my experience.” said Reihan Salam. Salam is the Executive Editor of the National Review and author of “Melting Pot or Civil…
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Sarah Ulmer
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November 14, 2018
OPINION: Path To Victory Likely Not There For Espy
Even with the much publicized and much shared remark from Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith about public hangings, the path to victory for any Democrat is very difficult. And potentially impossible to complete. Last week, Mississippians had the unique task of voting in two separate U.S. Senate races. Sen. Roger Wicker, who has served since 2008 and…
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Sarah Ulmer
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November 14, 2018
SALTER: U.S. Senate runoff between Hyde-Smith, Espy sure to take on a national party flavor
By: Sid Salter As it happened on Nov. 6, the pollsters on both sides were uncannily accurate in their predictions that Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democratic challenger Mike Espy would run a close first and second in the open primary and leave Republican challenger Chris McDaniel a distant third with Democrat Tobey Bartee…
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Sarah Ulmer
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November 7, 2018
October Revenue Report is in, and under sine die estimate
Unlike most months this year the October revenue report was under the sine die estimate by about $31.7 million. Reports are still up for the year though by $13.7 million or .81%. Collections through October 2018 are also higher than where last years collections were by 1.26% or $21.4 million. Corporate income tax was down…
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Frank Corder
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May 23, 2025
Special session called for next week as House, Senate reach budget agreement
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Frank Corder
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May 23, 2025
President Trump approves Mississippi’s request for assistance for March storms
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Daniel Tyson
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May 23, 2025
Mississippi pauses to honor those who paid the ultimate sacrifice this Memorial Day
Business
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Frank Corder
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May 19, 2025
Modine expanding data center cooling equipment manufacturing in Grenada County
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Lynne Jeter
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May 19, 2025
Goldman Sachs honors inaugural Mississippi small business graduating class
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Frank Corder
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May 15, 2025
HH2 relocating Kentucky distribution center to Blue Mountain, Mississippi
Culture
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Ben Smith
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May 23, 2025
Leaves of three, let it be
Culture
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Susan Marquez
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May 23, 2025
Walter Anderson Museum of Art opens The Traveler, a new contemporary art experience and cafe
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C.H. Spurgeon
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May 23, 2025
For the unbeliever
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Chip Pickering
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May 21, 2025
AI’s full business potential will be stifled by state regulations: Why a federal AI strategy is needed
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Jeff Hale
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May 21, 2025
Where energy innovation meets emergency readiness
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Kimberly Ross
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May 19, 2025
The boys are not alright
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