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Opinion  |  Frank Corder  • 
February 22, 2022

Mississippi Senate seeks to divert wind pool moneys to buoy dwindling state employee insurance fund

Coast legislative delegation, Insurance Commissioner Chaney worry that the diversion of funds will result in higher rates, less stability. Since its creation and subsequent revisions in 2007 following Hurricane Katrina, the Mississippi Windstorm Underwriting Association, known as the wind pool, has had legislative appropriators seeing dollar signs despite the fact that it is not a…
Opinion  |  Editor  • 
February 20, 2022

Republican moderates and media fly false flag in income tax elimination debate

Will Mississippi conservatives finally get the job done? Democrats, the media establishment and even some moderate Republicans are pulling out all the stops regarding the state income tax elimination proposal to stop it any way they can. Flush with hundreds of millions of dollars of cash, minimal debt and a rebounding economic picture, conservatives see this…