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GOP has veered off track
What started as a good idea to change the way Mississippi’s attorney general hires outside counsel has veered off track. Republicans, now in power in both houses of the Legislature, seem to be mor...
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Time to ban texting behind wheel
Mississippi lawmakers are being asked again this year to ban one of the more reckless and foolish habits of some drivers – texting while behind the wheel. It’s a sensible law that 35 states and th...
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More mistakes in pardon fiasco
The list of mistakes and oddities surrounding former Gov. Haley Barbourís pardon blitz just keeps on growing. In the latest twist, the Mississippi Parole Board has revealed that it didn’t reject Da...
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Don't cut Health Dept. budget
Republican State Rep. Toby Barker of Hattiesburg has one of the most challenging committee assignments in the Mississippi Legislature this year. Barker was named by new House Speaker Philip Gunn a...
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A changed heart is best MLK tribute
In the 44 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, this nation has gradually but steadily embraced ways to honor the life he gave in prodding the United States to live up to its fou...
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Bryant stays true to inaugural theme
Phil Bryant, Mississippi’s 64th governor, hit a lot of the right notes with his inaugural address Tuesday. Living up to his theme of “rising together,” Bryant stuck to those ideas on which most ...
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Narrow victory big for Romney
It’s unfair that so much weight in the presidential nominating chase is given to the caucuses in Iowa – a state that is more conservative, more evangelical, more rural and more white than most of t...
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Fleecing of tobacco trust fund ongoing
Former Gov. Kirk Fordice used to ask why the Mississippi constitution required him to go through the exercise of submitting a proposed budget since lawmakers were going to just throw it in the tras...
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Iraq War comes to inconclusive end
The only point on which most of this country agrees regarding the war in Iraq is universal relief that it’s over – at least for American troops. Now that the last of the U.S. combat soldiers have d...
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Learning a trade is a fine choice, too
Haley Barbour makes a good point when he talks about the need to destigmatize job training as a viable choice for high school graduates. Most of what high schoolers hear these days is that without ...
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