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September 2, 2020
SALTER: State’s high court right to reject egregious ‘bite mark’ evidence in Death Row case
By: Sid Salter A decade ago, I was writing about what I saw as a crisis in Mississippi’s death investigation system. Last week, the state Supreme Court took an essential step toward facing up to a system that remained broken for decades in the case of Death Row inmate Eddie Lee Howard Jr. During my…
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Magnolia Tribune
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September 1, 2020
NFIB Industry-Specific Report: Small Business Economy Update
Small businesses in the construction, manufacturing, retail, and services industries The NFIB Research Center released a Small Business Economic Trends Industry-specific survey highlighting the construction, manufacturing, retail, and services industries. NFIB released a previous quarterly report in May 2020. “Small businesses are working hard to stay open while they continue to navigate the coronavirus pandemic,” says Holly Wade, NFIB Director of…
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Magnolia Tribune
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September 1, 2020
The 2020-21 College Savings Enrollment Period Opens
Treasurer David McRae today announced the 2020-21 enrollment period for Mississippi’s prepaid college tuition program is now open. A Mississippi Prepaid Affordable College Tuition (MPACT) plan allows families to lock in tuition rates and prepay their child’s tuition fees. Enrollment is open from September 1, 2020, to May 31, 2021. To learn more, visit Treasury.MS.gov/MPACT. “Typically…
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Sarah Ulmer
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September 1, 2020
Mississippi Medicaid increases reimbursement rate for emergency ground ambulance services
Working in cooperation with the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH), the Mississippi Division of Medicaid (DOM) is increasing the reimbursement rate for emergency ground ambulance transportation. Previously these rates were calculated at 70% of the Medicare rate. A collaborative agreement with MSDH will make it possible for those reimbursements to be calculated at 100%…
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Frank Corder
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August 28, 2020
CORDER: If voter lawsuit plaintiffs can go grocery shopping, why can’t they just go vote?
From the beginning of the pandemic, Democrats have used the public health concerns to invent the demand for no excuse mail-in voting in states like Mississippi where the traditional absentee voting system is alive and well. Never mind that thousands have marched in close contact in street protests across the nation for months, while the…
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Sarah Ulmer
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August 28, 2020
Second Amendment tax free weekend happening this weekend
Starting today, the Second Amendment tax free weekend has arrived in Mississippi. The tax-free weekend begins August 28th and lasts through the 30th. All guns, bullets and shells are included, which means pistols are also sold without state sales tax. The weekend was created in 2014 by the Legislature. The statute reads “hunting supplies are the…
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Magnolia Tribune
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August 27, 2020
Ag Commissioner Gipson Announces MDAC’s New Wild Hog Control Program
Today, Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson announced a new Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce (MDAC) program, the Wild Hog Control Program (WHCP). Commissioner Gipson was joined by Mississippi House of Representatives Agriculture Chairman Bill Pigott, Mississippi State Senate Agriculture Chairman Charles Younger, and Mike McCormick, President of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation. “We are excited to…
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Frank Corder
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August 27, 2020
Exclusive First Look at Mississippi’s Aquarium set to open Saturday
The Mississippi Aquarium in Gulfport is scheduled to open to the public this Saturday, August 29th on the 15th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The newest attraction on the Gulf Coast is situated along Highway 90 just east of Highway 49 across from Gulfport’s small craft harbor. The nearly $100 million project has been under construction…
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Magnolia Tribune
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August 26, 2020
SALTER: After virtual national party conventions end, issues will ultimately determine election
By: Sid Salter With the Republican National Convention wrapping up this week and the Democratic National Convention just behind us, the stretch run has essentially begun in the 2020 presidential campaign. There are just 10 weeks left in this election. As one who covered national party conventions as a reporter, I found the pandemic-driven introduction…
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August 26, 2020
LIPSON: “Playing with Fire: It’s Time to Condemn the Riots and Restore Public Safety”
Some conflicts begin with clear aims but morph into endless battles, the original motives forgotten. The timeless metaphor for self-sustaining battles is Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the inheritance case at the heart of Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. ‘Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on,’ he wrote. ‘This scarecrow of a suit has, over the course of time, become so…
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Sarah Ulmer
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August 19, 2020
Jackson leaders discuss banning gun shows, but can they?
A faction from the Jackson City Council is publicly making known their opposition to gun shows in the city, and floating the possibility of banning them. Just a week ago, Councilman Aaron Banks, in an op-ed, said that the city “must address gun shows and ensure that tougher penalties are put in place for those…
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Sarah Ulmer
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August 19, 2020
MDE embraces schools reopening and pushes towards connectivity for all students and teachers
Students across the state of Mississippi have begun returning to school for the first time since leaving mid-March. Still in the midst of a global pandemic, operations have changed and the way in which children are learning and teachers are instructing has shifted, drastically for most. According to State Superintendent Carey Wright, school operations are…
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Jeremy Pittari
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September 24, 2026
Mississippi welcomes a record number of visitors that spent $12.4 billion
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Frank Corder
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September 24, 2026
Crump releases Mississippi State Medical Examiner autopsy report for Wells
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Sudhin Thanawala, Associated Press
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September 24, 2026
Deaths of students at the University of Mississippi cast spotlight on kratom
Business
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Frank Corder
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September 24, 2026
England-based SubSea Craft expanding operations, locating U.S. facility on Mississippi Coast
Business
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Cass Rutledge
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September 23, 2026
Raybern Foods expansion in Shannon bringing 70 new jobs to area
Business
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Cass Rutledge
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September 18, 2026
Industrial Timber expanding its Ripley operations with $2.6 million investment
Culture
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Alistair Begg
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September 24, 2026
The meaning of the Cross
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Mark Long, Associated Press
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September 23, 2026
No. 21 Florida counting on Swamp to help slow down No. 4 Ole Miss star QB Trinidad Chambliss
Culture
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Marilyn Tinnin
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September 23, 2026
Jim Abbott: Paper man chasing the truth in the Mississippi Delta
Opinion
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Sid Salter
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September 23, 2026
Midterm elections in Mississippi shaping up as a familiar exercise in black-and-white
Opinion
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Bill Cork
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September 22, 2026
The states winning investment are the states ready to deliver
Opinion
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Lesley Davis
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September 21, 2026
The war on women’s spaces has reached the sorority house
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