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Medicaid battle different now
In most years and certainly in recent years, Mississippi’s annual state legislative battle over Medicaid has been different than it is in 2013.
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Khayat, Lucas demonstrate a reliable Mississippi brotherhood
By Sid Salter/Syndicated columnist
The memorial service for the late MSU President Donald W. Zacharias was an emotional, meaningful day for those who bleed maroon. Much has been said and much has been written about Dr. Z’s contributions not merely to Mississippi State University, but to higher education in general in Mississippi.
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‘Arc of history’ favors gay marriage
By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
Our friend Kevin had to cancel a lunch date with Steve the other day. He was taking one of his twin sons to the doctor. -
Zacharias cast long shadow
By Sid Salter/Syndicated columnist
In life and in death, Donald W. Zacharias cast a long shadow over Mississippi State University — the school he successfully led from 1985 to 1997 — the second longest tenure in the history of the university behind founding president Stephen D. Lee. Higher education in Mississippi has had few better friends.
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Of shepherds and sheep
By Thomas Sowell/Syndicated columnist
John Stuart Mill’s classic essay “On Liberty” gives reasons why some people should not be taking over other people’s decisions about their own lives. But Professor Cass Sunstein of Harvard has given reasons to the contrary. He cites research showing “that people make a lot of mistakes, and that those mistakes can prove extremely damaging.”
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Drug court pioneer, federal judge speaks to push for legal pot
By Sid Salter/Syndicated columnist
Now that voters in the states of Colorado and Washington have legalized the sale of marijuana in their states, the showdown between these new state laws and current federal law that makes marijuana sales illegal in all states still looms. -
Voting reform could end national disgrace
By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts/Syndicated columnists
“Obama’s proposed voting commission under partisan fire from both sides.”
That recent headline in The Washington Post is hardly a surprise. Virtually every reasonable idea in the capital these days draws partisan fire from both sides. But if the extremes are agitated, the proposal probably has merit, and that’s true for the voting commission. -
Scrapping cable for new tech device
By Wyatt Emmerich/Northside Sun
Finally, after all these years, I can watch video the way I want to - what I want to watch, when I want to watch it and paying for only what I watch — with no commercials. Progress marches on! -
Cajun singer does it all
By Rheta Grimsley Johnson
Yvette Landry sings like a gutsy gal who is sick and tired of being sick and tired. World-weary, rode hard, unlucky in love and life, jaded. The words are full of easy-loving and hard-drinking.
It’s standard country fare, K.T. Oslin meets Gretchen Wilson. -
Nevada gets lead position in online gaming markets (HED)
Las Vegas now offers it. Atlantic City will begin to offer it in days. Will Biloxi or Tunica be threatened by the lack of it? I’m talking about legal online poker.
Nevada this week became the first state in the nation to authorize interactive gaming — giving the state the jump on other destination gaming states like New Jersey and Mississippi in the competition for online poker business. - More Columns Headlines
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