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August 29, 2011

Elliot – General election campaign ahead

General election campaign ahead There are wonderful things with the coming of fall. High school football. College football. The NFL is around the corner. Major League Baseball is in its home stretch. And Mississippi voters have completed two-thirds of the 2011 election cycle. Maybe that’s four out of five wonderful things. Post-Labor Day is the…
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August 28, 2011

NEMS OPINION: It’s past time to get a congressional map

Ten years ago, Mississippi’s congressional districts were redrawn by a federal court because the Legislature couldn’t agree on a plan. The number of districts had to be reduced from five to four because Mississippi’s population hadn’t grown as fast as much of the rest of the country, so it was a political donnybrook that involved…