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News  |  Frank Corder  • 
January 22, 2020

SCOTUS slow playing Obamacare decision throws Medicaid expansion in MS in further peril

The U.S. Supreme Court will likely not take up the appeal of the 5th U.S. District Court of Appeals ruling that struck down the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate in December 2019, at least not before the 2020 election. Democrats in Mississippi took to social media unhappy with the SCOTUS decision.  The Mississippi Democratic Party…
News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
January 22, 2020

SALTER: State prison system woes are primarily self-inflicted mistakes over the last 25 years

By: Sid Salter It’s easy to blame the Mississippi Legislature for the state’s current prison system woes, but the truth is that such finger-pointing is inaccurate. The state’s current prison mess has been at least 25 years in the making. Back in 1995, the current legislature’s predecessors thought they were “getting tough on crime” by…