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October 19, 2015

PETTUS asks if playing to far right cost Republican state senators Collins, Gandy

Emily Wagster Pettus: Miss. Republicans too far to right paying price? Two state senators with proposals that grabbed headlines and divided their colleagues are not returning to the Mississippi Capitol next term. Sens. Nancy Adams Collins of Tupelo and Phillip Gandy of Waynesboro were both defeated in the Republican primary in August. Their defeat raises…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
October 19, 2015

SALTER on #Initiative42: Handing appropriations authority to courts in perpetuity bad public policy

Sid Salter: Ends do not justify means with Initiative 42 As I assess Initiative 42, I do so as the son of career educators, as a parent who sent his child to public schools, and as a grandparent of children still attending public schools. So when shills for Initiative 42 attempt to couch the conversation…