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Sarah Ulmer
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December 12, 2018
SALTER: McNeece was a fourth-generation community journalist and a lady of great substance
By: Sid Salter My friend Lisa Denley McNeece would have made light of the cruel absurdity of her death on Sunday at her home in Bruce. Under singularly unexpected circumstances, she just died. She was a vibrant 56 years old. The doctor told the family he suspected a massive embolism or blood clot. Loved ones…
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Sarah Ulmer
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December 6, 2018
Latorre brings unique perspective as Mississippi Division of Medicaid’s first full-time medical director
Dr. Carlos Latorre earned two degrees in geology and worked at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg for six years before deciding he really wanted to study medicine. Now, after seven years of experience in family medicine, Latorre is switching gears again as he joins the Mississippi…
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Sarah Ulmer
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December 6, 2018
Trey Dellinger to head Americans for Prosperity’s Mississippi Chapter
Americans for Prosperity-Mississippi (AFP-MS), Mississippi’s leading grassroots advocacy organization, on Monday announced Trey Dellinger as its new State Director. Trey will succeed outgoing State Director Russ Latino, who has accepted a Vice President position with AFP, overseeing economic policy initiatives nationally. “I am incredibly honored by this opportunity,” said Dellinger. “At Americans for Prosperity, we…
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Sarah Ulmer
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December 5, 2018
OPINION: The Mob Attacks Rudolph
We can learn many wonderful lessons from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. But more than that, it is something families with young children have enjoyed for generations. By: Brett Kittredge, Director of Marketing and Communications for Mississippi Center for Public Policy. On the Day after Thanksgiving, my wife, my three boys, and I sat down to watch the…
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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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Cass Rutledge
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September 25, 2026
A&W Custom Furniture expanding in Okolona, adding 20 jobs
News
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Frank Corder
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September 25, 2026
Auditor White returns home from National Guard deployment, remains “laser-focused” on uncovering waste, fraud, and abuse
News
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Frank Corder
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September 25, 2026
Mississippi becomes 7th state approved for “Returning Education to the States” waiver from U.S. Dept. of Education
Business
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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Susan Marquez
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September 25, 2026
Journey to Colonial Mississippi: An America 250 Celebration
Culture
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Alistair Begg
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September 25, 2026
Promised provision
Culture
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Alistair Begg
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September 24, 2026
The meaning of the Cross
Opinion
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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