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A compromise on vaccine mandates
Fri,01/14/22-10:12PM, 37 Reads 1,939 Statewide
The U.S. Supreme Court split the difference this past week, upholding the Biden administration’s power to mandate COVID-19 vaccination in health-care settings but not in other workplaces.
It was the right decision on both counts.
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Free COVID tests aren’t really free
Thu,01/13/22-10:06PM, 74 Reads 2,961 Statewide
There’s no such thing as a free lunch. As many times as we and other fiscal conservatives say it, some folks can’t just seem to believe it, especially folks who are members of the Democratic Party or lean heavily that way.
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Congressional remap is unfair
Thu,01/13/22-9:42PM, 48 Reads 2,621 Statewide
The dwindling clout of the Mississippi Delta at the Capitol was again in evidence this week with the passage of a congressional redistricting plan that makes the 2nd District excessively large.
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Editorials: Congressmen and slaveowners; Miss. teachers certain to get pay raise
Wed,01/12/22-7:36PM, 77 Reads 3,746 Statewide
Congressmen and slaveowners

Given that slavery was an entrenched institution in the American colonies long before they won their independence, it is no surprise that more than half the members of the U.S. Congress during its first 20 years, from 1789 to 1809, owned slaves at some point during their lives.
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Congressmen and slaveowners