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July 24, 2014

Shouldn’t this be happening already? Ed Dept. requests $1 million to fund cheating investigations

More money needed for cheating investigation JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The Mississippi Department of Education will request $1 million in its fiscal 2016 budget to fund cheating investigations like the one it launched in May of the Clarksdale Municipal School District. The Clarion-Ledger reports (http://on.thec-l.com/1nDVxkH ) the state Board of Education members approved the new…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
July 24, 2014

MINOR: Is McDaniel trying to counteract racist taint by calling black Cochran voters ‘liberal’ Dems?

BILL MINOR: Changing politics remains unfinished in Mississippi Almost 50 years after the 1965 Voting Rights Act enfranchised thousands of black voters in Mississippi and elsewhere in the South, it’s increasingly evident that the Democratic voting bloc can become a game-changer in tight Southern senatorial races of both major parties. As we have already seen,…