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Sarah Ulmer
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January 26, 2018
Should #msleg tinker with vaccination success by allowing for religious exemptions?
by Sarah Ulmer It’s back before legislators, a bill that would allow religious exemptions for families who disagree with required vaccinations before their children can be permitted to attend school. This year it’s HB1505 authored by Rep. Andy Gipson. In 1969 religious exemptions were ruled unconstitutional, but since then most states have begun to permit…
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January 25, 2018
Rep. Jay Hughes’s “Let them eat cake” moment
By Alan Lange Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, was once famously quoted, upon being alerted that the peasants had no bread, as saying “let them eat cake” . The phrase has always symbolized the insensitivity and tone deafness of the rich to the needs of the poor. In an MPB interview this week after…
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Sarah Ulmer
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January 23, 2018
School Choice Day at the State Capitol; lawmakers push for parents to have a say in child’s education
by Sarah Ulmer At the Capitol on Tuesday, parents, teachers and students from diverse backgrounds around Mississippi gathered with lawmakers to promote School Choice. For Leah and Blake Ferretti finding better educational options for their two boys was if fact, not an option. It started when their oldest, Thomas, who is 8, was diagnosed with…
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Sarah Ulmer
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January 23, 2018
Unemployment Rate Falls to Historic Low and Number of Jobs Rises to Historic High.
Mississippi’s Employment Situation – Latest Edition This is the latest information announced today by the Mississippi Department of Employment Security. Mississippi’s unemployment rate fell in December 2017 to 4.6%, which is the lowest level of unemployment ever recorded in Mississippi. The December rate is two-tenths of a percentage point lower than a month earlier in…
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January 23, 2018
Senator Wicker’s “hot mic” moment is a tempest in a teapot
by Alan Lange Last night, “Bill Track Editor” Amelia Frappolli from CQ Roll Call tweeted a “hot mic” moment where it caught a seemingly sinister snippet of Senator Roger Wicker talking to Senator Cory Booker and Senate pages during the Senate vote to reopen the government. Immediately, the moonbat universe went into hyperdrive. Raw Story…
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Sarah Ulmer
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January 22, 2018
“It’s a tough sell” says author of Medical Marijuana bill @joelbomgar #msleg
The option to legalize medical marijuana is sitting before lawmakers during session this year after House Bill 391 was authored by Rep. Joel Bomgar of Madison. Bomgar, a conservative, Christian, Republican says it’s time for Mississippi to join 30 other states who have legalized the sale and use of medical marijuana for healthcare purposes. He…
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Sarah Ulmer
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January 18, 2018
MDOT out from under State Personnel Board could mean better salaries, but fewer workers
One bill in the House, HB355, could remove the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) from under the State Personnel Board. A request author for the bill, Rep. Charles Busby, said was made by the department. “Right now we don’t pay enough money. One guy might be making $16,000 a year, learn his trade well and…
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Sarah Ulmer
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January 17, 2018
New Education Funding Formula passes in the House, will do away with MAEP #msleg #msedu
Wednesday, the House passed the Mississippi Uniform Per Student Funding Formula Act of 2018, or HB957 with a vote of 66-54, two Democrats voting for the bill, 9 Republicans voting against it. The bill was the culmination of EdBuild recommendations into a new funding formula that would replace the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP). The…
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Sarah Ulmer
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January 17, 2018
‘Preacher’ Killen’s death closes a shameful chapter in Mississippi’s history
There was a generation of Mississippians who not only were unapologetic for their involvement in violent institutional racism enforced by fear and mob rule, but were likewise rather proud of their notorious reputations earned in pursuit of those misguided and dangerous goals. That’s the cold, ominous persona I remember being projected by a Ku Klux…
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January 17, 2018
Which has a higher real poverty rate – Mississippi or California? SURPRISE!
In an op-ed this week’s LA Times . . . Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country? Not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia, but California, where nearly one out of five residents is poor. That’s according to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, which factors in the cost of housing,…
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January 16, 2018
This guy is sorry – Levanway apologizes for sexual vulgarity #msleg
Prior to the Gulf Coast Legislative Reception, an event typically anticipated by most politicos in Mississippi, an incident occurred between lobbyist Scott Levanway and Harrison County Supervisor Beverly Martin. From the Clarion Ledger account … District 1 Supervisor Beverly Martin said she was trying to introduce new Harrison County supervisors Angel Kibler-Middleton and Kent Jones…
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Sarah Ulmer
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January 15, 2018
Medicaid Reauthorization: Wiggins says ‘the time is now’
One of the mostly highly anticipated topics of conversation for the 2018 Legislative session, Medicaid Reauthorization, will soon be addressed as bills begin to drop in the House and Senate. One of those bills, authored by Senator Brice Wiggins, SB 2836, worked closely with the Medicaid advisory Committee to decide on productive changes. “The time…
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Frank Corder
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December 31, 2025
Governor grants second clemency over illegal sentencing
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Jeremy Pittari
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December 30, 2025
Health officials stress need for flu, measles vaccinations
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Frank Corder
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December 30, 2025
James, Amelia top list of baby names in Mississippi for 2025
Business
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Frank Corder
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December 19, 2025
Firehawk Aerospace expands U.S. rocket manufacturing by acquiring Mississippi facility
Business
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Frank Corder
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December 18, 2025
Steel industry supplier P.C. Campana moving manufacturing line to Vicksburg
Business
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Frank Corder
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December 15, 2025
Amick Farms announces $74.5 million expansion in Jones County
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Susan Marquez
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January 1, 2026
It is possible to eat healthy in Mississippi
Culture
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Alistair Begg
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January 1, 2026
Rekindling lost love
Culture
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Richelle Putnam
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December 31, 2025
Discover the world with heart: How Mississippi’s Jane Halbert Jones brings Southern warmth to global travel
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Russ Latino
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December 31, 2025
Your life is not a dumpster fire, be positive in 2026
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Sid Salter
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December 31, 2025
Sen. Wicker chairs a vastly different SASC in a very different Congress than did Stennis
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Russ Latino
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December 29, 2025
Tucker Carlson’s jihadi apology tour is despicable
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