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Is that all there is to a pandemic?
By Kelley Williams, 1,816 Reads
Sat, 06/12/2021 - 03:29 PM
The bubonic plague killed about half the people in Europe in the Middle Ages. It was called the Black Death. Influenza killed about 15% of the world’s population in 1918-19. It was called the Spanish Flu. (John Barry’s The Great Influenza suggests it first appeared in Kansas.) Justinian’s Plague was the first major plague in recorded histor
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Reverse auctions secretly killed by special interests
By Wyatt Emmerich, 2,177 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 04:07 PM
It didn’t take long for the powers that be to kill reverse auctions — about two years or so.
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SALTER: After two years of political unrest and pandemic, is anyone shocked over UFO reports?
By Sid Salter - Contributing Columnist, 2,136 Reads
Wed, 06/09/2021 - 03:45 PM
Below is a political opinion column written by Sid Salter:

Over the last two years, a global pandemic rocked the international economy and the civilized world withdrew and in great measure shut down for a time.
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SALTER: Voter initiative process has been a hard right to win and an even harder one to keep
By Sid Salter - Contributing Columnist, 1,767 Reads
Wed, 06/02/2021 - 10:57 AM
Below is a political opinion column by Sid Salter:

Mississippians have been fighting over what would seem the very straightforward power of state voters to bypass the Mississippi Legislature and directly propose state constitutional changes for the better part of a century.
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SALTER: Partisan politics aside, contradictions abound in Miss. Medicaid expansion debate
By Sid Salter - Contributing Columnist, 5,844 Reads
Wed, 05/19/2021 - 10:57 AM
Below is an opinion column from Sid Salter:

When it comes to the provision of public health care in Mississippi, the partisan political considerations have changed little since Democratic former President Barack Obama signed his Affordable Care Act into law.
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SALTER: If Biden means his tough China talk, Wicker’s SHIPYARD Act is a good place to start
By Sid Salter - Contributing Columnist, 11,770 Reads
Wed, 05/12/2021 - 11:12 AM
Below is an opinion column by Sid Salter:

In his “interim” national security document issued in March, President Joe Biden sounded sharp concerns about China, and he ramped up that tough talk in his first address to a joint session of Congress in April.
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Full time in an RV? Maybe
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On Tue, 05/04/2021 - 03:31 PM
Can you imagine selling your home, purchasing an RV and hitting the road to travel across the country for several months with four young children?

Me either.

Amazingly enough, this is real life for a friend of mine who stopped in Greenville to visit this weekend.
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SALTER: Grisham’s ‘Sooley’ scores an intriguing novel about hoops and Third World realities
By Sid Salter - Contributing Columnist, 14,212 Reads
Wed, 04/28/2021 - 11:25 AM
Below is an opinion column by Sid Salter:

Professional book critics usually squirm uncomfortably in their reviews when author John Grisham gets out of the more familiar mold of legal thrillers with unexpected plot twists or more gothic looks at a South that is evolving on questions of race, equality, or social justice.
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SALTER: Judicial ruling on voter initiative will impact Medicaid expansion, voting change efforts
By Sid Salter - Contributing Columnist, 4,361 Reads
Wed, 04/21/2021 - 11:37 AM
Below is an opinion column by Sid Salter:

The Mississippi Supreme Court has heard arguments in a case that not only decides the fate of a voter initiative authorizing a medical marijuana program in Mississippi but may well decide the future of the state’s entire voter initiative process.
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GANUCHEAU: Gov. Tate Reeves buries critical COVID-19 message while pandering
By ADAM GANUCHEAU - Mississippi Today, 4,323 Reads
Wed, 04/21/2021 - 11:23 AM
Below is a political opinion column by Adam Ganucheau:

As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are again beginning to trend upward in Mississippi, health experts are doing everything they can to spread a message: get the vaccine.
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June 12, 2021