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Where have you been? That’s a question Mississippi’s hospital executives should have to answer as the Legislature winds down and Republican leaders in both houses refuse to think pragmatically about expanding Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act. The hospital CEOs and the Mississippi Hospital Association seem to have been largely absent from the wrangling [...]

The Mississippi Senate Wednesday passed legislation to allow public charter schools to operate in the state, though each school opened must receive approval from a newly created independent commission. Under the measure approved by the Senate, local schools districts will have to find the charter schools, though federal and sate dollars the districts receive can [...]

Is there an assembly line somewhere that turns out these tired opposition party responses to State of the Union addresses? Year after year, it doesn’t matter whether the chief executive delivering the speech is a Democrat or Republican, within minutes of the speech’s completion the worn-out rhetoric begins. Which brings us to Tate Reeves, Mississippi’s [...]