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Editorial: Hard truths about Amtrak
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On Sat, 07/24/2021 - 10:06 AM
Maybe it’s time for all Americans — even those who cringe at the trillion-dollar budget deficits of recent years — to admit that there really is no political or popular will to do anything substantial about our runaway spending.
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Editorial: Delta variant - Heed the warning
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On Sat, 07/24/2021 - 09:30 AM
We have been warned. Health officials in Mississippi, around the country and even around the world are telling residents in the state the delta variant of COVID-19 is here. It’s more contagious than any strain of the coronavirus this country has experienced to date.
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Editorial: Americans and alcohol
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On Wed, 07/21/2021 - 06:24 PM
In recent years there have been plenty of reports about the rising use — to addictive and even fatal overdose levels — of legal medication like opioids. So it’s no surprise that the same trend holds true for alcoholic products.
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Parker doesn’t buy into groupthink
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On Mon, 07/19/2021 - 09:54 PM
Star Parker is an anomaly as syndicated columnists go. She is Black, she is female and she is unapologetically conservative.
Not many of those around.
But Parker regularly makes thought-provoking arguments that undoubtedly rile the Black base of the Democratic Party.
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FDA opens purse to unproven drug
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On Wed, 07/07/2021 - 09:26 PM
Prescription drug costs in the United States are high. They are one of the leading factors that keep health care costs routinely rising faster than the general inflation rate.
As a result, Americans spend more on prescription drugs annually than those who live in other developed nations. The reasons are varied.
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Is that all there is to a pandemic?
By Kelley Williams, 3,361 Reads
Sat, 06/12/2021 - 03:30 PM
The bubonic plague killed about half the people in Europe in the Middle Ages. It was called the Black Death. Influenza killed about 15% of the world’s population in 1918-19. It was called the Spanish Flu. (John Barry’s The Great Influenza suggests it first appeared in Kansas.) Justinian’s Plague was the first major plague in recorded histor
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Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson speaks to the Indianola Rotary Club this week.

Video: Secretary of State Visits Indianola Rotary
By Bryan Davis, Emmerich Newspapers, 2,539 Reads
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 04:52 PM
Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson visited the Indianola Rotary Club this week.
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