OUR VIEW
What's pork depend on your view
      Every time the federal government puts out a budget, there's plenty of what's called pork in it. This is money that is usually put into the budget to fund little projects here and there in the various senators' and representatives' districts.
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INSIDE THE STATEHOUSE
State setting a dangerous precedent
by Steve Flowers
      It seems like the saying, "thank God for Mississippi," has been around most of my life. This adage referred to our perennial status on most economic barometers and rankings as 49th but Mississippi was always last or 50th. We have progressed significantly economically over the past decade. Most cha...
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From the Editor's Desk
Different kinds of races
Arthur McLean
      Iwonder if anyone in the states cares at all about the Tour de France now that an American's not in the lead and after Floyd Landis' positive tests for performance boosting drugs after his victory last year. Well, don't completely tune out. One American, Levi Leipheimer is in the top ten.
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Ramblin' Roses and Flyin' Bricks
Can't please everybody
The late Earl Tucker
      July 17 , 1957 It looks like nowadays a fellow can't do anything, say anything or write anything without making somebody hot under the collar. Last week I wrote an innocent little piece about how I didn't think much of these Bermuda shorts. I made just about everybody mad.
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