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Opinion: Dirt biking through the jungles of Cambodia. Not! - Cloned
By WYATT EMMERICH
Tue, 09/21/2021 - 05:12 PM, 59 Reads
Every time I ran into Mike Gunn at a party, he would tell me about his latest exotic adventure, dirt biking the back roads of some exotic country. It sounded like a great bucket list item.
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Opinion: Cars will last ten years if the chips do
By CHARLIE DUNAGIN
Tue, 09/21/2021 - 04:54 PM, 82 Reads
Forty years ago, country singer Merle Haggard, in his song, “Are the Good Times Really Over for Good,” wished “a Ford and a Chevy would still last 10 years like they should.”
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Mississippi is flush with cash thanks to a federal stimulus package. Leaders have done little to plan its spending, unlike in other states. Credit: Vickie King, Mississippi Today

COLUMN: Mississippi procrastinates as other states plan for, spend billions in pandemic stimulus
By GEOFF PENDER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon, 09/20/2021 - 10:36 AM, 52 Reads
Below is a political analysis column by Geoff Pender:

In Arkansas, Gov. Asa Hutchinson formed a committee of executive branch and legislative leaders to plan spending the state’s $1.5 billion in American Rescue Plan Act money. He directed them to include community, private sector and nonprofit leaders in decisions.
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Mississippi politicians don’t believe what they keep being told about Medicaid expansion
By BOBBY HARRISON - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon, 09/20/2021 - 10:18 AM, 48 Reads
Below is a political analysis column by Bobby Harrison:

Legendary baseball announcer Jack Buck once proclaimed, “I don’t believe what I just saw.”

Perhaps some Mississippi politicians opposed to Medicaid expansion should proclaim, “I don’t believe what I keep on hearing and reading from the experts.”
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