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Six reasons for optimism about the virus

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On Wed, 07/22/2020 - 02:41 PM

These are unhappy times in the coronavirus war. The number of infections in Mississippi is rising too rapidly. People living or working in Yazoo City have been ordered to wear masks. And on Monday Gov. Tate Reeves put extra restrictions on additional counties where the number of cases has spiked.

Scale back habitual offender laws

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On Thu, 07/02/2020 - 10:12 AM

The Mississippi Legislature should pass House Bill 1024, which applies a 15-year time limit on offenses that can be considered under our state habitual offender laws. The bill also excludes nonviolent crimes from being factored into the habitual offender calculation.

Jobless benefits prone to fraud

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On Mon, 06/29/2020 - 06:44 AM

With COVID-19 spreading and government-imposed shutdowns, too, Congress was in a panic to pass something quickly to keep the U.S. economy from a total meltdown.

From farms to tables

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On Thu, 06/25/2020 - 10:36 AM

Here’s a headline from The Washington Post website that ought to frustrate anybody who’s volunteered some time at a food bank or trying to help the needy: “Extra food is rotting on farms while Americans go hungry.”

Worse than the Great Recession?

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On Tue, 06/02/2020 - 12:58 PM

Perhaps it is no surprise, but now Mississippi has the numbers that indicate just how much worse this year’s shutdown has been compared to the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009.
State economist Darren Webb and revenue commissioner Herb Frierson spoke to the Senate Finance Committee last week. They didn’t have much good news to report.

How would they pay for it?

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On Fri, 05/15/2020 - 02:12 PM

Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives have no problem detailing how they want to spend $3 trillion in additional relief from the COVID-19 pandemic.
What they struggle with is explaining how the country will pay for it — so much so, that they don’t even seem to bother trying.

Cities will face difficult choices

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On Fri, 05/08/2020 - 06:52 PM

Yazoo City and many cities like it in Mississippi will soon be facing the difficult decisions that private businesses in their communities have already grappled with.
That's because there's a two-month lag between when sales are made in stores and when municipalities receive their cut of the sales tax.

Health care's crash landing

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On Thu, 05/07/2020 - 05:38 PM

For many years now, a lot of smart people have been saying that the United States needs to get its health care costs under control. It’s finally happening, but the results are not pretty.

A calculated risk worth taking

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On Wed, 04/29/2020 - 11:41 AM

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves continues to take the correct approach by gradually lifting the business restrictions that had been imposed to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
On Friday, Reeves announced he was shifting from “shelter at home” to “safer at home” — a difference that is more than just a case of semantics.

Oil Industry has the virus

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On Fri, 04/24/2020 - 01:21 PM

Add a worldwide glut of oil to the many problems being caused by the coronavirus.

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