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Initiative fix remains on hold
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,09/29/21-2:00AM , 1389 Reads
STARKVILLE — Sources in both the Mississippi Senate and House spoke publicly in recent days to their belief that a compromise has been reached between the two chambers on a medical marijuana statute that will salvage much of what was lost when state voters overwhelmingly approved a medical marijuana voter initiative, only to see it overturned by
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Justice eludes Parkers
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,09/15/21-2:00AM , 1695 Reads
STARKVILLE — Randall Scott Parker is finally, mercifully at peace, and a family circle violently broken 31 years ago is once again unbroken.
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Author leaves corruption beat
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,09/01/21-2:00AM , 1478 Reads
STARKVILLE — University of Southern Mississippi professor emeritus James Crockett, now an adjunct professor of accountancy at the University of Mississippi, perhaps enjoyed a bit of serendipity in bringing his latest book to market in the same year that the entire nation witnessed a Mississippi team win a legitimate NCAA national championship at
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Alaska, a wilderness jewel
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,08/25/21-2:00AM , 1608 Reads
HOMER, Alaska — Leilani and I journeyed to the AK Diamond J Ranch near Homer, Alaska, on Kachemak Bay on the southwest side of the Kenai Peninsula for the wedding of Rachel Klimetz to Jimmy Wingerter on Aug. 19. It was worth every moment of travel to “The Last Frontier.”
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