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Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
April 24, 2019

SALTER: Paying for public health care remains federal, state governments’ most vexing challenge

By: Sid Salter I often wrote over the course of 35 years about public health care finance with a level of personal engagement that reminds me today much of a walk through a really fine zoo. The exhibits were intriguing, yes, but I could certainly lose interest quickly and move on to another topic. I’m…
Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
April 17, 2019

SALTER: Education, healthcare, roads and taxes, as usual, will dominate 2019 elections

By: Sid Salter My active observations of Mississippi statewide elections stretch back to the 1970s and what remains fascinating to me is how little the issues have changed since those days. When flamboyant Democrat Cliff Finch and moderate Republican Gil Carmichael squared off in 1975, Finch used a black lunch box to symbolize his slogan…