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Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
January 24, 2018

Day of reckoning awaits state, local taxpayers who ignore online sales tax issue

Like the old Fram oil filter commercial promised, we can pay now or pay later – but I’m not talking about oil filters. I’m talking about foregone sales tax revenues. Mississippi taxpayers are facing future pain at the state and local levels if current policies don’t change. Commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield project…
Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
January 17, 2018

‘Preacher’ Killen’s death closes a shameful chapter in Mississippi’s history

There was a generation of Mississippians who not only were unapologetic for their involvement in violent institutional racism enforced by fear and mob rule, but were likewise rather proud of their notorious reputations earned in pursuit of those misguided and dangerous goals. That’s the cold, ominous persona I remember being projected by a Ku Klux…