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Is that all there is to a pandemic?
By Kelley Williams, 1,317 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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Reverse auctions secretly killed by special interests
By Wyatt Emmerich, 1,388 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 04:08 PM
It didn’t take long for the powers that be to kill reverse auctions — about two years or so.
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Charles Dunagin: A New Look at Sergeant York
By Charles Dunagin, 1,372 Reads
Thu, 06/10/2021 - 06:00 PM
On May 31, as usual on Memorial Day, Turner Classic Movies replayed “Sergeant York”, the 1941 movie about the legendary World War I hero.

I’ve watched it numerous times, first as a kid in a movie theater, and I don’t know how many times on television.
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Our Opinion: Internet would be a wise county investment
By Our Opinion, 1,384 Reads
Thu, 06/10/2021 - 05:30 PM
Newton County got some good news when TEC announced plans to expand its high-speed broadband access into Newton County.

The company is spending a total of $14 million to bring 250 megabit per second internet (upload and download) to around 3,200 residences and customers.
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Brent Maze

COLUMN: Chamber had another big year
By Brent Maze, 1,257 Reads
Thu, 06/10/2021 - 05:08 PM
The Newton Area Chamber of Commerce had a great year. At last week’s chamber meeting, we celebrated our successes over the past year and looked forward to the future.
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Dozens of creatives responded to Mississippi Today’s NextGen Mississippi survey and shared why they took their talents to other states.

Young creatives share why they left Mississippi
By Candace McKenzie - Mississippi Today, 1,442 Reads
Wed, 06/09/2021 - 03:54 PM
Growing up in Greenwood in the 1980s, Sue Anna Joe was an artsy person.
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Poll: Mississippians and politicians at odds over marijuana, Medicaid
By Geoff Pender - Mississippi Today, 297 Reads
Tue, 06/08/2021 - 03:25 PM
A new poll says a majority of Mississippi voters not only want the Legislature to create a medical marijuana program like the one the state Supreme Court nullified, but they favor allowing recreational use of pot.
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A special election to fix the Mississippi ballot initiative process would cost the state or local governments and perhaps both. Credit: Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For America

Special election to address ballot initiative can happen this year, but it will cost
By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, 1,298 Reads
Tue, 06/08/2021 - 09:50 AM
Below is a political analysis column by Bobby Harrison:

If the Mississippi Legislature does set the date for a special election this year to reinstate the ballot initiative process that was invalidated last month by the Supreme Court, it would cost the state or local governments and perhaps both.
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The Pfizer-BioNtech covid vaccinations are prepared for injection. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

Mississippi has returned or rejected nearly 872,000 COVID-19 vaccines due to low demand
By Will Stribling - Mississippi Today, 4,033 Reads
Mon, 06/07/2021 - 05:44 PM
Due to the low demand for COVID-19 vaccines in Mississippi, the state has returned 871,950 of the doses it was allocated to the federal vaccine pool, sent them to other states or rejected the federal allotment.
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New Summit teachers miss paychecks for first time since owner was accused of fraud
By Julia James - Mississippi Today, 1,236 Reads
Fri, 06/04/2021 - 11:26 AM
Teachers at New Summit School, the Jackson private school whose owner is accused of defrauding the state and federal government, did not receive checks on their May 31 payday, marking more than two weeks without pay.
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June 16, 2021