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Jeremy England
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March 4, 2024
In-Person Early Voting Can Increase Election Integrity and Voting Opportunities for Mississippians
State Sen. Jeremy England (R) writes that the Magnolia State is one of only three states in the nation not to offer in-person early voting. He says it is time to change that.
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Pepper Crutcher
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February 29, 2024
Mississippi Medicaid Expansion: Don’t Lose a Friend Over This
Pepper Crutcher discusses the complexities of Medicaid expansion.
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Mike Chaney
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February 28, 2024
Mississippi Home Mitigation Program Would Save Money, Property and Lives
Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says Mississippi is among the top ten most expensive states for homeowners’ insurance with an average premium greater than $1,500 per year.
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Russ Latino
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February 28, 2024
No, a Work Requirement for Medicaid Expansion is Not Going to be Approved by September
Russ Latino says if legislative leaders were serious about work requirements and seriously confident it would be approved, they would make Medicaid expansion contingent upon approval.
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Sid Salter
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February 28, 2024
Calls to scrap, change or replace the MAEP funding formula have consequences
Columnist Sid Salter says the Mississippi Adequate Education Formula continues to be a highly political plan conceived not to “fully fund” education but to avoid losing in the federal courts.
Opinion
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Lesley Davis
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February 27, 2024
Mississippi Kids Deserve to be Protected from Child Pornography and Online Obscenity
Lesley Davis calls on lawmakers to support and pass Senate Bill 2256 and House Bill 1363 this session.
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Russ Latino
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February 27, 2024
140,000 or more Mississippians could lose private health insurance with Medicaid expansion
Medicaid expansion would make people earning between 100-138 percent of the Federal Poverty Level ineligible for private health plans on the ACA exchange, forcing them off those plans and onto Medicaid.
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Russ Latino
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February 26, 2024
Hoosier warning: Billion dollar hole in Indiana’s Medicaid program
Under then-Gov. Mike Pence, Indiana was one of the first states to expand Medicaid following the passage of Obamacare. It now faces a billion dollar shortfall in the program and is slashing benefits to disabled families.
Opinion
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Russ Latino
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February 23, 2024
Fitch-White Feud Goes Defcon 1
Attorney General Lynn Fitch petitioned a court to prevent State Auditor Shad White from filing a counterclaim on behalf of the state in Brett Favre’s defamation case against White, prompting a war of words between the pair.
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Russ Latino
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February 22, 2024
You Hate Poor People
The debate over anti-poverty programs has never been between really good people, who want to help the poor, and really bad people, who want to see the poor suffer. The debate really should be about what set of principles and ideas offers the greatest opportunity to escape generational poverty and live a life of meaning and contribution.
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Douglas Carswell
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February 21, 2024
Mississippi Needs a New School Funding Formula
Mississippi Center for Public Policy's CEO Douglas Carswell says MAEP is hideously clunky and complicated. He says a new transparent, easily understood system is needed.
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Sid Salter
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February 21, 2024
PERS casts a long shadow over all the difficult tasks faced by Mississippi lawmakers
Columnist Sid Salter says lawmakers don’t want the increased scrutiny that any discussion of PERS reform will have on the Legislature’s enhanced retirement benefits.
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Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press
, Eric Tucker, Associated Press
, Michelle L. Price, Associated Press
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April 2, 2026
Trump says Pam Bondi, a loyalist who oversaw Justice Department upheaval, is out as attorney general
News
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Frank Corder
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April 2, 2026
Mississippi to ban abortion-inducing drugs under anti-drug trafficking law
News
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Daniel Tyson
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April 2, 2026
Mississippi judges to receive pay raises
Business
Business
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Frank Corder
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March 31, 2026
Channel South, $105 million mixed use development, aims to transform Gulfport’s downtown
Business
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Frank Corder
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March 26, 2026
DG Foods announces $1.19 million expansion
Business
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Frank Corder
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March 25, 2026
AeroShield Alliance locating headquarters in Mississippi
Culture
Culture
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Alanis Thames, Associated Press
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April 2, 2026
Delta State’s women’s basketball legacy endures even as national spotlight has faded
Culture
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Susan Marquez
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April 2, 2026
Things to do in the Magnolia State in April 2026
Culture
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Alistair Begg
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April 2, 2026
Giving back to the Giver
Opinion
Opinion
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Ashby Foote
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April 2, 2026
The Strait Jacket of Hormuz
Opinion
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Patrick Sullivan
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April 1, 2026
Data Centers: Power-hungry but price-friendly
Opinion
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Russ Latino
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April 1, 2026
On this April 1st, more government please
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