Columns
Move remediation to community colleges and hybrid universities
Across the nation ever rising higher education costs are in conflict with tight state budgets. At the same ... Read more
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Analysis: Lack of info not helping school funding rewrite
JACKSON, Miss. — There’s still time to have a real discussion about possible changes to Mississippi’s school ... Read more
Local News
LAUDERDALE COUNTY COURTHOUSE CONUNDRUM
Paint peeling from the walls. Black mold in the chancery clerk’s office. Exposed wires in the tax assessor’s ... Read more
State
What you need to know about a new school funding formula
Mississippi Today’s education writer Kate Royals addresses some of the questions swirling around the current effort in the ... Read more
Local News
Kemper plant delayed until late February
On the day Mississippi Power Co. was scheduled to start commercial operation of its Kemper County energy facility, ... Read more
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Effects of ACA repeal could be far-reaching, diverse
If the Affordable Care Act is fully repealed, the economic effects could be far-reaching and diverse, depending on ... Read more
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Medical costs growing for Oklahoma’s aging prisoners
OKLAHOMA CITY — A graying prisoner population in Oklahoma is running up a tab in medical and dental ... Read more
Columns
International trade thuggery
President-elect Donald Trump’s threats against American companies looking to relocate in foreign countries have won favorable review from ... Read more
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Student debt now affects a staggering number of elderly Americans
The number of older Americans taking on student debt on behalf of their children and grandchildren has quadrupled ... Read more
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Scientists have a new way to calculate what global warming costs
How we view the costs of future climate change, and more importantly how we quantify them, may soon ... Read more