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Editorial: Democrats are their own worst enemy
Wed,01/19/22-7:06PM, 235 Reads 2,757 Statewide
The Democratic Party already faces immense challenges in Mississippi politics simply because a majority of the state’s voters are conservative white Republicans. But occasionally Democrats seem determined to make things more difficult for themselves, as a white state legislator’s experience last week showed.
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Editorial: Car-tag strategy wins Democratic support
Tue,01/18/22-6:48PM, 214 Reads 8,057 Statewide
If House Speaker Philip Gunn wanted to get more Democratic lawmakers on board with his aggressive tax cut program, he figured out the right way to do it: Include car tags.
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A compromise on vaccine mandates
Fri,01/14/22-10:06PM, 241 Reads 4,740 Statewide
The U.S. Supreme Court split the difference this past week, upholding the Biden administration’s power to mandate COVID-19 vaccination in health-care settings but not in other workplaces.
It was the right decision on both counts.
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Free COVID tests aren’t really free
Thu,01/13/22-9:54PM, 313 Reads 4,591 Statewide
There’s no such thing as a free lunch. As many times as we and other fiscal conservatives say it, some folks can’t just seem to believe it, especially folks who are members of the Democratic Party or lean heavily that way.
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