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September 9, 2022
WICKER: Biden Saps the American Workforce
Submitted by Senator Roger Wicker President Biden’s policies are discouraging work and separating Americans from the dignity it provides, Mississippi’s senior U.S. Senator writes. At the height of the recent pandemic, millions of Americans were forced out of work because of public health mandates and the closure of workplaces. Today, those mandates are gone, but…
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September 9, 2022
GRESHAM: Lack of Credit Card Competition Raises Prices
Submitted by Tom Gresham “For business owners, swipe fees have become the most expensive operating cost after labor,” Gresham writes. Small businesses owners in places such as Indianola, Pontotoc, and Brookhaven are struggling with skyrocketing prices and a shortage of labor. These local stores are the heart of our communities, but the big credit card…
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September 8, 2022
FOOTE: Cashier in the Coal Mine
Submitted by Ashby Foote “In our quest for net-zero emissions, we should not succumb to net-zero common sense,” Foote writes. September 4, 2022, marked the 140th anniversary of the world’s first electricity generation station at 257 Pearl Street in lower Manhattan (NYC). Thomas Edison dreamed it up and built it. The electricity came from six 27-ton…
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September 8, 2022
BECKER: Congress Must End the ‘One China’ Policy
Submitted by Dr. Matthew Becker “There must be zero doubt of our actions should the Chinese Communist Party use force to ‘bring home’ Taiwan,” Becker writes. The “Victims of Communism Memorial,” located in Washington, D.C., has a simple dedication engraved on the front pedestal: “To the more than one hundred million victims of communism and…
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September 7, 2022
SALTER: Decades in the making, Jackson’s infrastructure woes won’t be quickly or easily solved
By: Sid Salter Like seemingly every other facet of American society these days, when it comes to both the national media and the state’s press, the assignment of blame for the City of Jackson’s water and sewer system woes falls into two distinct camps. The first camp blames those woes almost entirely on what they…
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September 7, 2022
WATSON: Mississippi Election Information Clarification
Submitted by Michael Watson Secretary of State Watson clears up misleading information in recent Clarion Ledger article on voting in Mississippi. While maybe well-intentioned, a recent Clarion Ledger article on voting in Mississippi provided misleading information on the different avenues one can take to cast his or her ballot. One of the headers even noted “If…
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Frank Corder
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September 6, 2022
Jackpot Justice +20: Taggart, Nash look back at impact of the longest special session in state history
This is the second installment in the Y’all Politics series looking back at the passage of tort reform that occurred 20 years ago in the longest special session in Mississippi history. In August 2002, former Governor Ronnie Musgrove, a Democrat, called in his trial lawyer friends to tell them over breakfast that the pressure to enact…
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Frank Corder
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September 6, 2022
Water pressure restored in Jackson thanks to state intervention
Governor Reeves implored the city of Jackson to put forward a plan to permanently fix the problem at the municipal level. On Monday – Labor Day – Governor Tate Reeves and the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency announced that water pressure has been restored in the city of Jackson. The state got involved in the municipal…
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Frank Corder
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September 5, 2022
Labor Day: Thank you for your hard work, Mississippi!
Mississippians all across this great state put in long hours as they seek to provide and make a life for their families. Whether you are building the ships that protect America’s freedom on the Coast, hauling timber in the Pine Belt, growing crops that feed the world in the Delta, or teaching a class full…
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September 2, 2022
WICKER: Water Crisis, Infrastructure Needs, and Economy Top August Travel in State
Submitted by Senator Roger Wicker “I am encouraged by the great deal of progress happening across our state,” Wicker writes. Each year during August, I get the chance to travel extensively in Mississippi to meet with constituents while Congress is out of session. This past month, I met with a wide range of small business…
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September 2, 2022
LATINO: How the Jackson water shortage happened and how it can be solved
Submitted by Russ Latino “Whether Republican or Democrat, white or black, Jackson residents deserve better. Mississippi needs a strong capital city,” Latino writes. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall, ravaging the Mississippi Gulf Coast with record storm surge. On the 17th anniversary of one of the worst natural disasters in state history, Governor Tate…
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Frank Corder
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September 1, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Reports from inside Jackson’s water treatment plant since state intervention
“Grateful faces” and “fundamentally unsafe conditions.” According to multiple sources on-site and close to the State of Mississippi’s intervention in Jackson’s O. B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant that were not authorized to speak publicly, state Health and Emergency Management officials were met with a mix of “grateful faces” from a severely overworked and critically understaffed…
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Jeremy Pittari
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April 22, 2025
Mississippi Board of Education discusses ending U.S. History test as graduation requirement, unwinding of DEI
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Annie Ma, Associated Press
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April 22, 2025
Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says
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Magnolia Tribune
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April 22, 2025
Magnolia Mornings: April 22, 2025
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Business
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Lynne Jeter
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April 17, 2025
GE Aerospace moving at warp speed in Batesville
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Lynne Jeter
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April 15, 2025
ABB doubling size of operations in Tate County
Business
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Lynne Jeter
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April 9, 2025
Cultivating deep Magnolia State connections
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Culture
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Meredith Biesinger
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April 22, 2025
Graduate by Hilton Oxford, a Mississippi must
Culture
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C.H. Spurgeon
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April 22, 2025
All we need for today
Culture
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Parrish Alford
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April 21, 2025
Dart, a possible first rounder, makes Kiffin two-for-two. Can Simmons complete the trifecta?
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Russ Latino
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April 23, 2025
Horhn came in like a wrecking ball, landslide brings Lumumba down
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Kimberly Ross
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April 21, 2025
From Shapiro to Trump, political rage does not justify political violence
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Jonathan Bain
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April 18, 2025
“One Door” is an open door for welfare expansion in Mississippi
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