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Hall’s not scared to talk about tax hike
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,08/08/12-2:54PM , 112 Reads
STARKVILLE — While most members of his party run like scalded dogs from the mere mention of anything resembling a tax hike (try getting out of a GOP primary as an advocate for higher taxes!), Republican Central District Transportation Commissioner Dick Hall is loudly calling for an increase in the state’s gasoline tax.
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Hospitals will join in Medicaid fight
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,08/01/12-1:00PM , 103 Reads
STARKVILLE — How simple it would be if the legislative battle in Mississippi over the future of the Obama health care reforms were merely a battle between Republicans and Democrats.
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Poverty is what suppresses the vote
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,07/25/12-4:21PM , 115 Reads
STARKVILLE — The Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law released a study last week that concluded that voter identification laws would have a more profound impact on supposed voter suppression in states with poor, sparsely populated and rural populations such as Mississippi than in states not similarly situated.
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Tax breaks and class warfare
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,07/11/12-5:04PM , 84 Reads
STARKVILLE — In the wake of the latest dismal jobs numbers, President Barack Obama is returning to a campaign theme that served him well in the 2008 campaign: He wants Congress to pass a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for American households earning less than $250,000 a year while allowing the same tax cuts to expire for households
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