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What likely stalled initiative
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,04/20/22-2:00AM , 759 Reads
STARKVILLE — One of the state’s more mainstream conservative business groups last week unveiled a unanimous resolution endorsing Medicaid expansion in Mississippi — the venerable Delta Council. The resolution, adopted by the group’s Health and Education Committee, was clear and unequivocal in calling on lawmakers to act.
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Approaching disaster
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,04/13/22-2:00AM , 1043 Reads
STARKVILLE — As the midterm elections approach, why isn’t there more interest in the approaching U.S. Social Security and Medicare policy abyss?
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Initiative process hits impasse
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,04/06/22-2:00AM , 812 Reads
STARKVILLE — Since 1992 and at earlier points in the state’s history, Mississippi voters have been able to bypass the Legislature and engage in what has been called “direct democracy” in proposing constitutional amendments and getting them decided at the ballot box rather than at the state Capitol Building.
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Trimming ‘people power’
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,03/09/22-2:00AM , 995 Reads
STARKVILLE — State Sen. John Polk, R-Hattiesburg, the chairman of the Senate Accountability, Efficiency and Transparency Committee, kept observers wondering for the first two months of the 2022 legislative session what would be the fate of efforts to revive the state’s ballot initiative process.
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