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Numbers suggest priorities
By Sid Salter/Syndicated columnist
As the new Republican majority controlling state government claimed victory by passing the Children’s Protection Act with ease in the House, it’s clear that even more fundamental — and more politically difficult — challenges loom down the public policy road.

February 4, 2012
Romney has Massachusetts problem
By Byron York/Syndicated columnist
Mitt Romney was born and raised in Michigan and has ties to Utah. Yet he chose to make his career, both in business and politics, in Massachusetts. Nearly every political problem Romney has today, at least those involving his policy positions, stems from that one decision.

February 4, 2012
Woman escaped killing machine
By Nat Hentoff/Syndicated columnist
A survivor of Robert Mugabe’s relentlessly brutal dictatorship in Zimbabwe, Patience Mhlanga would like you to know what it was like to grow up in grinding fear there. She escaped, but her story tells what so many others are still undergoing in that hellhole that the rest of the world allows to continue:
“Growing up in Zimbabwe, I learned the meaning of persecution early. My father was a strong supporter of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), and the supporters of Robert Mugabe threatened to kill our family for my father’s views.

February 3, 2012
Restored restaurant signals renewal
By Bill Crawford/Meridian Star columnist
Choctaw tribal chief Phyliss Anderson restored and reopened Phillip M’s at the Pearl River Resort last week. She also signaled her intent to renew the economic policies so successfully implemented by the restaurant’s namesake.

February 3, 2012
Woman escaped killing machine
A survivor of Robert Mugabe’s relentlessly brutal dictatorship in Zimbabwe, Patience Mhlanga would like you to know what it was like to grow up in grinding fear there. She escaped, but her story tells what so many others are still undergoing in that hellhole that the rest of the world allows to continue:

February 3, 2012
Restored restaurant signals renewal
Choctaw tribal chief Phyliss Anderson restored and reopened Phillip M’s at the Pearl River Resort last week. She also signaled her intent to renew the economic policies so successfully implemented by the restaurant’s namesake.

February 3, 2012
There’s good Newt, bad Newt
By Cokie and Steven V. Roberts/Syndicated columnists
We’ve covered Newt Gingrich for 30 years, and there has always been two sides to the man. The Good Newt and the Bad Newt. Towering talent and awesome arrogance. Boundless energy and porous ethical boundaries. A firm belief in his own destiny, and a cynical conviction that distortion and deception are justified in the pursuit of that destiny.

February 2, 2012
I flee when fruitcakes fly
By Rhetta Grimsely Johnson/Syndicated columnist
You know you’re getting a little long in the tooth for column writing when you let a lack of parking keep you from a town’s Great Fruitcake Toss.
But I’ll confess. When I saw more cars at Manitou’s high-school track than you’d find at an Auburn-Alabama football game, I quickly lost enthusiasm for the charity event. I was still weary from a bad cold and not feeling my best, and the climb up from the only remaining parking would have required a rope and cleats.

February 2, 2012
Outside counsel fight continues
By Sid Salter/Syndicated columnist
The ongoing legislative battle over the so-called “outside counsel” or contingency fee law remains a political cold war between the state’s trial lawyers and the state’s business and medical interests — and it’s a story that has two sides.

February 1, 2012
Brownspur Viking memories
By Robert Hitt Neil/Syndicated columnist
I did a speaking and book-signing event last month is a community whose local newspaper has run my weekly syndicated column for most of these 25 years. A lady buying a book complimented as I was autographing it, “I think your best column was about your foreign exchange student’s comment about the bump in the road.” Gee whiz, that was maybe 20 years ago!

February 1, 2012
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