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Death row is thinning out
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,08/18/21-2:00AM , 1591 Reads
STARKVILLE — Mississippi hasn’t executed a death row inmate since former grocery store butcher Gary Carl Simmons Jr. was executed on June 20, 2012, for the grisly 1996 murder and dismemberment of Jeffrey Wolfe and the subsequent kidnapping and rape of Wolfe’s girlfriend in Pascagoula.
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Public health care expansion push in Mississippi remains a highly partisan conundrum
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,08/11/21-11:36AM , 1112 Reads 16,338 Statewide
STARKVILLE — Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann used his Neshoba County Fair political speaking time to kick the political ant hill of making public health care more affordable and accessible in Mississippi.
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Fair great but strange
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,08/04/21-2:00AM , 1421 Reads
PHILADELPHIA — With no active political races and a fairgrounds population returning after a 2020 hiatus caused by the global COVID pandemic, this summer’s return to the Neshoba County Fairgrounds was wonderful, but there was an underlying tone that things had not quite returned to normal.
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SALTER: State’s casinos showing record growth as pent-up demand drives overflow crowds
By SID SALTER
Wed,07/28/21-10:42AM , 1342 Reads 16,891 Statewide
Below is an opinion column by Sid Salter:

How ready were gamblers to return to Mississippi Gulf Coast casinos after COVID and the resulting shutdowns?
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