Sid Salter

Last year and likely next year as well, the Mississippi Legislature was focused on the question of Medicaid expansion. The tenor of that debate focused on the perceived impact on

STARKVILLE – If we are the American people we are supposed to be we are this week pausing from the caustic political exchanges on social media and thanking God for

The easy political comparison to President Joe Biden’s decision to with withdraw from the 2024 U.S. presidential race is to point to incumbent Democratic President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s decision not

STARKVILLE – Six months ago, the gross national debt of the United States exceeded $35 trillion. That total includes money the federal government owes itself, so many in government and

STARKVILLE ­– As Mississippi legislative leaders contemplate additional tax reforms in the coming 2025 regular session of the Mississippi Legislature, the spotlight has been on additional state income tax cuts

SID SALTER Think about a powerful public speaker with the clarity and power of a Barack Obama.

STARKVILLE ­– In 2022, Gov. Tate Reeves signed the largest tax increase in Mississippi history – the Mississippi Tax Freedom Act. The tax cut plan promised to eliminate $525 million

Chief Justice Randolph recently wrote in a majority opinion from the Mississippi Supreme Court that Manning “has had more than a full measure of justice” but the victims and their families have not.

STARKVILLE ­– Mississippians will go to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 5, to cast their ballots in the nation’s federal presidential and congressional elections. However, given the state’s history in

STARKVILLE – Mississippi judicial races are supposed to be non-partisan — meaning that candidates don't run under the cloak of any political party. The 2002 case Republican Party of Minnesota v. White drew a bright line that judicial candidates had free speech rights that states were not free to constrain through so-called “announces clauses.”