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EconomicsOf Baptists, bootleggers, and brewmasters: Mississippi’s entry into the craft beer movement
Since the Legislature legalized high-gravity beer in 2012, craft breweries have sprung up around the state. Mississippi should embrace their development rather than reverting to its old objections.
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EconomicsHow did Mississippi smoke up billions from the tobacco settlement?
In summary: Medicaid inflation, short-term thinking, and anti-tax dogma.
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EconomicsThe Nissan Trap: For better or worse, Mississippi’s investment creates dilemmas
By putting up $378 million in cash incentives to attract Nissan, Mississippi has made itself beholden to a large overseas employer -- perhaps even against the interests of its own citizens.
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"Honest Mississippi"‘Only Honest Mississippi Spoken Here’
In the mid-1990s, Mississippi's highway signs admonished passing drivers: "Only Positive Mississippi Spoken Here." The slogan still dictates how Mississippi addresses its tough issues: instead of confronting our negatives, we change the subject to our positives.
By Jake McGraw
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