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News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
May 30, 2019

U.S. Senator Thad Cochran Passes Away

U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), who represented Mississippi in Congress for more than 45 years, passed away peacefully early Thursday morning in Oxford.  Services are pending. Cochran, a Navy veteran who eventually served as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Senate Agriculture Committee, resigned from the Senate in April 2018 due to health concerns.…
News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
May 29, 2019

SALTER: New Washington state law really is thinking “outside the box” or perhaps even the urn

By: Sid Salter Our pop culture in this country has made mincemeat out of the phrase “thinking outside the box” and rendered the phrase trite and meaningless. That is, until lawmakers in the State of Washington recently enacted legislation that reflected thinking that is literally “outside the box” or at the very least the coffin…