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Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
August 28, 2019

SALTER: How well does Mississippi’s higher education system compare with surrounding states?  (HED)

By: Sid Salter The Chronicle of Higher Education’s annual “Almanac of Higher Education” edition for 2019-20 is hot off the presses and the information contained there is useful for those interested in reviewing how Mississippi’s higher education system compares with our contiguous neighboring states. Let’s dive right in to The Chronicle’s Mississippi data. Mississippi is…
Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
August 21, 2019

SALTER: Weidie cast a long, meaningful shadow over Mississippi’s modern political evolution

By: Sid Salter One of the state’s best known and most influential political journalists of the 1970s and 1980s died last week after a courageous battle with cancer. I will sorely miss him. Wayne Weidie died Aug. 15 at his home in Venice, FL. He was 78. He was one of the great friends and…