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Nunnelee refused to quit
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,02/04/15-4:32PM , 155 Reads
STARKVILLE — Learning that Congressman Alan Nunnelee had run out of medical options in his battle with brain cancer and the complications that battle has produced was sobering and distressing on several levels.
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Prosecutor was a good guy
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,01/28/15-5:29PM , 183 Reads
STARKVILLE — Can it be that the “Pretense” scandal is now 30 years in Mississippi’s political rear-view mirror?

During the 1980s, 57 of Mississippi’s 410 county supervisors from 26 of the state’s 82 counties were charged with corruption. The FBI’s ploy to catch the criminals was code-named “Operation Pretense.”
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How initiative process works
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Thu,01/22/15-4:15PM , 162 Reads
STARKVILLE — So how it is that Mississippi voters are facing three choices on the 2015 ballot on the question of funding K-12 education in Mississippi?
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Hood’s outside counsel
By SID SALTER - Contributing Columnist
Wed,01/07/15-5:51PM , 207 Reads
STARKVILLE — While Mississippi’s Attorney General Jim Hood has been one Democrat that the state’s Republican Party has often targeted but never tagged, the GOP trial balloons continue to be floated by a number of potential challengers.
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