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March 16, 2022

SALTER: West Point’s Harris family cast a long, impactful shadow in Mississippi journalism

By: Sid Salter Third-generation Mississippi newspaper publisher William Henry (Billy) Harris, Jr., 70, died March 1 at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. A chapter closes on a rather remarkable family’s contribution to print journalism in this state with his passing. Billy was only seven years my senior, but he signed one of the first…
Opinion  |  Editor  • 
March 14, 2022

Can Mississippi afford income tax relief? House and Senate fiscal analysis say . . . Yes.

House and Senate Analysis Side By Side As the debate began in earnest in the early parts of the 2022 session, Mississippi House and Senate leaders scrambled to win the war of datapoints on their tax cut proposals. Mississippi, flush with over a billion dollars in recurring revenues in excess of expected collections, has what…