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At MSU, integration happened peacefully
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,07/15/15-3:57PM , 296 Reads
STARKVILLE — For Richard Holmes, the integration of Mississippi State University on July 19, 1965, could not have been a path he chose without some serious reflection on the fates of those who went before him at previously all-white Mississippi universities.
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Appropriations head consistent on MAEP
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,07/08/15-6:02PM , 186 Reads
STARKVILLE — Mississippi House Appropriations Committee Chairman Herb Frierson, R-Poplarville, is being chewed up and spit out by supporters of Initiative 42 as an enemy of public education — despite the small fact that Frierson is a former teacher and coach.
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Swing in death penalty pendulum?
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,07/01/15-1:00PM , 191 Reads
STARKVILLE — On its face, the Supreme Court’s narrow 5-4 ruling that allows Oklahoma and other states to continue to use a three-drug “cocktail” for lethal injections that includes the drug midazolam appears a victory for proponents of the death penalty.
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Has the state changed?
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,06/24/15-5:27PM , 141 Reads
STARKVILLE — In the wake of the tragic South Carolina mass shooting in a house of worship by a young white supremacist, public debate over the official symbolism of the Confederate battle flag in general and the specific symbolism of its incorporation into the Mississippi state flag quickly escalated.
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