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Bill’s death insulting to state’s elderly
By SID SALTER - Political Columnist
Wed,02/16/11-1:00PM , 162 Reads
JACKSON — Just like last year, Mississippi’s nursing home industry has better lobbyists than Mississippi’s elderly and afflicted nursing home patients.

Just like last year, legislation that would have required nursing homes to carry a minimum $500,000 in liability insurance died.
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GOP face-off one to watch
By SID SALTER - Political Columnist
Wed,02/09/11-1:00PM , 79 Reads
JACKSON — Rare is the Mississippi election cycle in which the race for the state’s No. 2 spot draws as much or more attention than the governor’s race, but in 2011 that just might be the case, at least in the Republican primary.
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Budget reform: needed but ignored
By SID SALTER - Political Columnist
Wed,02/02/11-1:00PM , 149 Reads
JACKSON — Those who dismiss Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant’s push to change the state’s budget-making process to a performance-based budget as another election year pander do so by ignoring history in Mississippi.
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Legislature should lay off Ole Miss
By SID SALTER - Political Columnist
Wed,01/26/11-1:00PM , 104 Reads
JACKSON — Although my loyalties to my Mississippi State University alma mater have never been secret, I likewise know that Ole Miss is a truly great university that is one of Mississippi’s best success stories.
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