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July 8, 2013
From MDES to Medicaid, legislators no strangers to reauthorization fights
From MDES to Medicaid, legislators no strangers to reauthorization fights *First appeared in the Laurel Chronicle on July 4, 2013 The recent debate in Jackson on whether the state should expand its taxpayer-funded Medicaid program in accordance with the Affordable Care Act (ACA; also known as “Obamacare”) brought back certain legislative memories. Call me crazy,…
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July 8, 2013
SH Editorial: Bryant has key role to fill at the CMR
SH Editorial: Bryant has key role to fill at the CMR Vernon Asper’s resignation as chairman of the Commission on Marine Resources gives Gov. Phil Bryant yet another opportunity to help reform the Department of Marine Resources, which the five-member commission oversees. But unless other members of the commission follow Asper’s example, Bryant’s choice for…
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July 8, 2013
Sam Hall – Sam R. Hall: Reeves, Gunn have bridge to build
Sam R. Hall: Reeves, Gunn have bridge to build My initial reaction to the Senate pulling back the Medicaid reauthorization bill, adding crucial technical amendments outside the expressed special session call by the governor and then going home was that Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves was essentially doing an end-run around the governor with a one-finger…
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July 8, 2013
Pickering to study viability of hospitals
Pickering to study viability of hospitals The office of State Auditor Stacey Pickering will be studying which community-owned hospitals in Mississippi are facing economic difficulties and why. Pickering says he is concerned that some accessibility to health care will be lost if those hospitals can’t remain viable. Pickering spoke earlier this week to a forum…
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July 8, 2013
Miss. high court to hear arguments in Eaton case
Miss. high court to hear arguments in Eaton case The Eaton Corp. goes before the Mississippi Supreme Court on Aug. 5 seeking reinstatement of its $1 billion trade secrets lawsuit filed against a rival, Frisby Aerospace. A Hinds County judge in 2010 threw out the case, saying Eaton knew about and sanctioned secret actions that…
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July 8, 2013
Sen. David Blount – Medicaid expansion is a good deal for Mississippi
Sen. David Blount – Medicaid expansion is a good deal for Mississippi Should the state spend $7 million to receive $570 million? That’s the question the Legislature faced last week when voting whether or not to expand Medicaid in Mississippi. The governor and a majority of legislators said “no.” From now on, Mississippi will face…
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July 8, 2013
Federal market exchange lacks health insurance providers for 36 counties
Federal market exchange lacks health insurance providers for 36 counties It’s well past halftime and the clock can’t be stopped as federal officials seek health insurers to cover 36 Mississippi counties before an Oct. 1 deadline for launching the state’s healthcare exchange. The Mississippi Department of Insurance is unsure what to make of a predicament…
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July 5, 2013
YP – Bill Minor, Ed Inman and David Hampton’s love affair with Gary Anderson – he’s their strawman
For no shorter than the last decade, Mississippi’s liberal elite have had a gushing love affair with the political failure of Gary Anderson. Gary Anderson was former Governor Ronnie Musgrove’s hand picked choice to run for Treasurer in 2003. That was the year that Haley Barbour came to town to challenge the wildly unpopular one…
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July 5, 2013
BILLMINOR-EDINMAN Change sometimes circles back to the past
Change sometimes circles back to the past While the Voting Rights Act may well have outlawed prima facie voter discrimination, it is obvious it did not eliminate racial prejudice in choices for elective office. A shining example was the election of Mississippi’s state treasurer in 2003. Democrats put up a highly qualified black man, former…
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July 5, 2013
BRIANPERRY – Guns good politics for Hood
Guns good politics for Hood Governing Magazine’s recent profile of Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, “The Last Democrat in Dixie,” describes Hood’s independent appeal in a Republican dominated state. It quotes House Democratic Minority Leader Bobby Moak saying Hood “takes the right stance on God and guns.” “As for guns,” the profile reports, “Hood earned…
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July 3, 2013
YP – CottonMouth drones about loss of expansion $ while Rep. Willie Bailey voted against #Medicaid
Bless their heart. CottonMouth and the AP were all up in a tizzy about the how many dollars they might not get because of a lack of wholesale Obamacare/Medicaid expansion in Mississippi. Failure to expand Medicaid to cost Greenville’s Delta Regional $3.9M starting October 1 Though Medicaid extended, Greenville’s Delta Regional Medical Center still facing…
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July 3, 2013
Bobby Harrison twists, cortorts and reaches to get Democrat talking points out on #Medicaid
History will determine Medicaid victors Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, showing a little parliamentary maneuvering of his own, was able to keep the expansion vote from happening during the regular session. But in a tit-for-tat scenario, House Democrats blocked passage of the regular Medicaid program. Thus, the special session. Not sure who won by forcing the…
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Daniel Tyson
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May 12, 2025
Ag Commissioner talks tariffs, trade impact on Mississippi farmers
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May 12, 2025
Dow jumps 1,079 points and S&P 500 climbs 3.1% following a 90-day truce in the US-China trade war
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May 12, 2025
Trump says he’ll set 30-day deadline for drugmakers to lower the cost of prescription drugs
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Frank Corder
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April 23, 2025
Amazon locating inbound cross dock operations in Marshall County, creating 1,000 jobs
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Lynne Jeter
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April 17, 2025
GE Aerospace moving at warp speed in Batesville
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Lynne Jeter
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April 15, 2025
ABB doubling size of operations in Tate County
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Parrish Alford
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May 12, 2025
Ostrander needs deep pitching staffs to take Golden Eagles to new heights
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Robert St. John
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May 12, 2025
Onward toward a creative life and not an unlived life
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C.H. Spurgeon
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May 12, 2025
Chosen for affliction
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Kelley Williams
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May 12, 2025
Bad energy policy represents risk to ratepayers
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Bill Crawford
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May 11, 2025
State still hugs bottom as education advances
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Roger Wicker
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May 9, 2025
Trump-Zelensky agreement could be pivotal moment toward ending Putin’s war
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