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Tech shield is sliding off
By CHARLIE SMITH - Columbian-Progress
Fri,04/19/19-12:03AM , 268 Reads
COLUMBIA — The era of Facebook profiting madly off the trashiest, most libelous gossip it can show to its users could be coming to an end thanks to a government — not ours here in America — finally showing some backbone against the tech giants rapidly destroying our culture.
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History’s one pardon refusal
By CHARLIE SMITH - Columbian-Progress
Fri,03/15/19-12:37AM , 366 Reads
President Trump says his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen asked him for a pardon. But Cohen testified before Congress, “I have never asked for, nor would I accept, a pardon from Mr. Trump.”
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Still inflating grad rates
By CHARLIE SMITH - Columbian-Progress
Sat,01/26/19-7:00AM , 262 Reads
COLUMBIA — The Mississippi Department of Education just published a 79-page document breaking down nearly every aspect of the state’s graduation rate. Rates by district, by students with disabilities, by race and gender, it’s all in there — with one notable exception.
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Where is Mississippi heading?
By CHARLIE SMITH - Columbian-Progress
Thu,01/17/19-7:01AM , 200 Reads
Gross domestic product is the most basic and important measurement of an economy, and a new statistic allows it to be tracked at the local level for the first time.
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