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Charleston Clinic physician, Dr. Rob Carter, is encouraging everyone to take the COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo special to The Sun-Sentinel)

OPINION: 'I implore each of you to find your humanity and to take this vaccine when offered'

By Dr. Rob Carter, 6,895 Reads

Friends, this virus has been prevalent in the U.S. for nine months now. It has changed everything. The way our children learn, the way we worship, the way we interact with the general public and numerous other ways.
By the time this is published, I hope the FDA has approved emergency authorization for a vaccine.

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OPINION: It's never too late to do what's right

By Clay McFerrin, 1,482 Reads

Gladys Frost would have observed her 56th birthday on March 22.
Instead, what ought to have been a celebration of life was another in a long string of painful reminders of her gruesome death.
Gladys was one year behind me at Charleston High School. I graduated in 1982. She was a 1983 grad.

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SALTER: Grisham’s ‘Sooley’ scores an intriguing novel about hoops and Third World realities

By Sid Salter - Mississippi State University, 2,328 Reads

Below is an opinion column by Sid Salter:

Professional book critics usually squirm uncomfortably in their reviews when author John Grisham gets out of the more familiar mold of legal thrillers with unexpected plot twists or more gothic looks at a South that is evolving on questions of race, equality, or social justice.

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A new warning from NCAA

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On Thu, 04/22/2021 - 01:45 PM

Mississippi got back into the NCAA’s good graces a year ago, when some public arm-twisting convinced the Legislature and Gov. Tate Reeves to change the state flag.

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SALTER: Judicial ruling on voter initiative will impact Medicaid expansion, voting change efforts

By Sid Salter - Mississippi State University, 1,124 Reads

Below is an opinion column by Sid Salter:

The Mississippi Supreme Court has heard arguments in a case that not only decides the fate of a voter initiative authorizing a medical marijuana program in Mississippi but may well decide the future of the state’s entire voter initiative process.

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GANUCHEAU: Gov. Tate Reeves buries critical COVID-19 message while pandering

By ADAM GANUCHEAU - Mississippi Today, 1,129 Reads

Below is a political opinion column by Adam Ganucheau:

As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are again beginning to trend upward in Mississippi, health experts are doing everything they can to spread a message: get the vaccine.

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Judges in box on medical marijuana

By Tim Kalich, 4,013 Reads

If Mississippi did not elect its Supreme Court judges, you could more confidently predict what they will decide about the lawsuit challenging the voters’ decision last year to legalize medical marijuana.

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GIPSON: Worker Shortages Threaten Commerce, Supply and Distribution Chains

By Andy Gipson - Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, 1,988 Reads

Below is a political opinion column by Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson:

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SALTER: Amazon in Alabama: Organized labor’s racial narrative soundly rejected yet again

By Sid Salter - Mississippi State University, 1,546 Reads

Below is an opinion column by Sid Salter:

Organized labor’s organizing efforts in the South in recent years have focused on equating union membership with social justice. Over the last decade, that narrative has been soundly rejected in union votes and in most cases by workers with significant percentages of Black workers.

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Duty calls for taking COVID-19 shot

By Tim Kalich Greenwood Commonwealth, 9,122 Reads

GREENWOOD — As the nation waits anxiously for the approval and distribution of the first COVID-19 vaccines, there is an underlying uncertainty about the prospect.
Even when this life-saving medicine becomes available, how many people will take the shots?

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