Other Editors: Felon voting bill will have to wait
Though the effort was unsuccessful this year, a bill to restore voting rights to certain felons had bipartisan support and should be reintroduced in 2025.
Dustin Gentry: Medicaid is a blessing, not a burden for Mississippi
Medicaid Expansion in Mississippi has been wrongly construed as a vehicle to support non-working, able-bodied people who do not deserve free (to them) healthcare.
Mona Charen: The GOP is the party of Putin
“Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base.”
Shad White: Fixing the university enrollment cliff
Our universities are facing a looming crisis. The news outlet Inside Higher Ed recently stated that “the number of traditional college-aged students will peak in 2025 and then decline dramatically for several years.”
Froma Harrop: The anti-abortion right is not into compromise
Getting rid of Roe v. Wade was sold as a sensible and mollifying approach to the abortion controversy. It would let each state ban or codify a right to abortion in accordance with local culture.
Adam Ganucheau: The Christian argument for Medicaid expansion
The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Jackson is glued to the legislative debate over Medicaid expansion.
Mona Charen: Democrats should reclaim patriotism
In 1984, at the Republican National Convention in Dallas, a lifelong Democrat stood up to denounce her former party. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who had switched parties to serve as Reagan’s U.N. ambassador, lambasted her former party for always “blaming America first.”
David McRae: April is Financial Literacy Month
It’s no secret that at the State Treasury of Mississippi, we believe deeply in financial wellness for every citizen. And if you give us the opportunity, we’ll scream it from the rooftops to anyone who will listen, sharing our resources for families, individuals, and businesses when and where we can.
Veronique de Rugy: Americans can tell the difference between rosy economic data and reality
The economy is growing, unemployment is low, wages are up, and inflation is down. However, the American people remain grumpy about the state of the economy. This puzzle was just investigated by four economists.
Froma Harrop: For the beneficiaries, losing Obamacare would truly suck
Donald Trump last week posted an item on Truth Social that broke new ground for incoherence. What got his fingers fumbling on the keyboard was Joe Biden’s being out in the country warning Americans that another presidential term for Trump would cost them their health care.
Bobby Harrison: Even Sen. Wicker is not conservative enough for NE Mississippi
U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker’s loss in his native northeast Mississippi in the Republican primary earlier this month most likely says more about the region than it does about him.
Wyatt Emmerich: Bob Marley: Modern prophet
Ginny and I and our friends Kemal and Tessy Sanli went to see the new Bob Marley movie at the Capri Theatre in Fondren. We had dinner first at Saltine’s then walked across State Street to see the movie.
Russ Latino: Comparing the House and Senate Medicaid expansion plans
In February, the Mississippi House of Representatives voted for full Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as “Obamacare”). That plan went over like a lead balloon with Republican senators, who developed their own Medicaid expansion plan, one which stops short of full expansion.
Other Editors: Biden does an Iran sanctions two-step
Two days after reissuing a $10 billion Iran sanctions waiver, the Biden Administration on Friday threatened coordinated Group of Seven sanctions against Iran if it delivers ballistic missiles to Russia. The policy signal these two moves send is incoherence.
Adam Ganucheau: Senate Republicans should know: This is literally life-or-death.
The single most transformative policy Mississippi lawmakers have considered since William Winter’s education reform of 1982 is just two Senate votes from becoming law.
Froma Harrop: Are these Republicans mocking social conservatives?
South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace was in Washington telling a story about how her “fiance” wanted more action in bed earlier that day. “And I was like, ‘No baby, we don’t got time for that this morning.’” To which she added, “He can wait. I’ll see him later tonight.”
Wyatt Emmerich: Dept. of Defense reports there are no aliens
The U.S. Department of Defense just released a new report to Congress: There are no aliens.
By aliens, I don’t mean illegal immigrants. I mean alien aliens. As in, from another planet.
Froma Harrop: Build anything anywhere threatens communities
YIMBY sounds nice. YIMBY stands for “Yes in My Backyard.” It’s a positive-sounding rejoinder to NIMBY, “Not in My Backyard.” The NIMBY label is being used to stigmatize defenders of zoning laws, with the goal of bulldozing the rules.
Bobby Harrison: Some state politicians may be moving beyond name-calling in health care
Riding around curvy roads in northeast Mississippi campaigning for reelection in 2007, Republican Gov. Haley Barbour unveiled to a reporter his plan to create a state exchange where individuals and businesses could shop for health insurance at a lower rate.
Sean of the South: Tupelo
It was late. I had just finished performing my one-man spasm in Tupelo, Mississippi. We were tired. My wife and I had a long drive ahead.