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Medical marijuana not carte blanche
Mon,01/17/22-9:24PM, 310 Reads 887 Statewide
Tate Reeves has expressed suspicions that medical marijuana is being used as a backdoor means to legalize the recreational use of the drug in Mississippi.
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Tim Kalich

Surplus is not going to last
By Tim Kalich
Fri,01/14/22-10:24PM, 442 Reads 4,592 Statewide
There’s a better than even chance that a tax cut is going to come out of the Mississippi Legislature this year.
House Speaker Philip Gunn has made a complicated tax swap (and overall cut) his No. 1 push for the past two years — what some believe is his launching pad for a run for governor in 2023.
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A compromise on vaccine mandates
Fri,01/14/22-10:06PM, 404 Reads 3,612 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,01/13/22-9:54PM, 275 Reads 3,946 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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