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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.

Mississippi is a testing leader, but there's still far to go

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On Tue, 04/21/2020 - 11:00 AM

On Monday, during his daily press briefing on the COVID-19 outbreak, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves was complimenting the state’s health officials on what a good job they had done getting people tested for the virus that causes the respiratory disease.
The numbers back up the praise.

COVID-19 tests must be reliable

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On Sat, 04/18/2020 - 02:37 PM

A critical scientific piece in moving toward a state of normalcy in our pandemic-worried world is to have an inexpensive — and preferably quick — test that would let people who are not sick know whether they have already been infected by the new coronavirus without realizing it.

Human ingenuity takes on virus

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On Tue, 04/14/2020 - 08:16 PM

Most of the focus on human ingenuity since the outbreak of COVID-19 has been on those scientists and medical researchers who are working feverishly on drugs to treat the disease and vaccines to prevent it.

Where's the proof of illegal alien voting?

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On Tue, 04/14/2020 - 08:09 PM

Michael Watson, Mississippi’s new secretary of state, thinks that enough non-U.S. citizens are voting in state elections that he needs the authority to check their names against other government databases.

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