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By Tim Kalich, 291 Reads
Fri, 10/15/2021 - 10:00 PM

Things are not looking so good for Nancy New, the Greenwood native and founder of what was until a few months ago known as North New Summit School in her hometown.

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How to disincentivize work

By Tim Kalich, 838 Reads
Fri, 10/08/2021 - 09:48 PM

Most of the wrangling in Congress about President Biden’s push for dramatically more social spending has been over how large the expansion should be.
Most of the Democrats want to stick with their original figure of $3.5 trillion, while a couple of moderates are insisting on $1.5 trillion.

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Virtual learning a disaster

By Tim Kalich, 492 Reads
Fri, 10/01/2021 - 10:54 PM

No one was arguing last year that virtual learning was a good substitute for in-person instruction in K-12 schools.
The inferiority of virtual learning was underscored recently when Mississippi released the results of the first state tests administered during the pandemic.

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Medicaid foes refuted again

By Tim Kalich, 622 Reads
Fri, 09/17/2021 - 09:36 PM

Tate Reeves and Philip Gunn may be wishing Mississippi would employ a different state economist.

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There’s no forgetting 9/11

By Tim Kalich, 391 Reads
Fri, 09/10/2021 - 11:24 PM

I’m not the most observant person when it comes to my wife’s attire. She will tell you so.
But I can think of three times, other than our wedding, when I distinctly remember what Betty Gail was wearing: the day I met her, the day we had our first date, and the day of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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It’s all gerrymandering

By Tim Kalich, 807 Reads
Fri, 08/27/2021 - 10:00 PM

GREENWOOD -- Is gerrymandering bad or good? It depends on who gets to do the gerrymandering and who is benefited by it.

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We knew this was coming

By Tim Kalich, 778 Reads
Fri, 08/13/2021 - 08:36 PM

We had plenty of advance warning. We knew this setback was coming. But we were unable to avoid it because the forces behind it were beyond our control or we weren’t willing do what it takes to deter it.
I’m not talking about COVID-19 and its delta variant either.

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Facebook post by Greenwood Leflore Consolidated School District alerts community to reporting error on COVID-19 outbreak.

Oops! Reporting error grossly inflates COVID outbreak at Greenwood school

By Tim Kalich, 962 Reads
Tue, 08/10/2021 - 05:12 PM

GREENWOOD -- A reporting error is making the outbreak of COVID-19 at a Delta high school look 30 times worse than it is, say school officials.

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Reeves now a virus enabler

By Tim Kalich, 1,024 Reads
Fri, 08/06/2021 - 08:24 PM

Lead or get out the way. That somewhat abbreviated version of the 18th century admonition coined by Thomas Paine comes to mind when thinking about Tate Reeves’ response to the latest surge of COVID-19.
The Mississippi governor has been neither leading nor getting out of the way.

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Masks are a dilemma again

By Tim Kalich, 713 Reads
Fri, 07/30/2021 - 08:12 PM

GREENWOOD -- Here we go again, with people getting upset with state and federal health officials for changing their advice when it comes to mask wearing.

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