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Few enroll in exchange
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Wed,11/13/13-1:00PM , 66 Reads
JACKSON — Fewer than 150 Mississippi residents have signed up for coverage through a federally run health insurance website, the state insurance commissioner said Tuesday.
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Education, economy are tightly linked
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Mon,11/11/13-4:48PM , 91 Reads
JACKSON — Grab the nearest kindergartner and tell her this: Stay in school and study hard because Mississippi’s long-term economic outlook depends on you.
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No easy road for Thad
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Mon,10/28/13-1:04PM , 152 Reads
JACKSON — Republican Thad Cochran has had to break a sweat once since winning one of Mississippi’s two U.S. Senate seats in 1978.
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Federal judge to rule on insurance dispute Monday
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Sun,10/27/13-1:00AM , 151 Reads
JACKSON — A federal judge says he intends to rule on Monday in a dispute between Mississippi’s largest health insurer and Gov. Phil Bryant.

U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate heard arguments Friday in a lawsuit Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi filed to try to block an executive order that Bryant issued Tuesday.
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