Mississippi is known for having some of the strongest laws in the nation regulating abortions. But this year, the state House of Representatives passed a bill to repeal one of the most important of those laws - the law that requires a twenty-four hour waiting period and requires abortion clinics to provide information to women about the procedure itself, the stage of development of their unborn child, and other important information. (more…)

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"State Spending Outpaces Family Income"

Family income in Mississippi has doubled over the past 20 years, with median family income growing from about $23,000 to about $46,000 per year. (more…)

Marriage in Mississippi: One Man / One Woman?

We have sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

This decades-old observation from George Orwell can certainly be applied to the current debate over the definition of marriage.

To hear the arguments of those who seek to redefine marriage, you would think that marriage has, for all recorded history, been recognized as any collection of people who love each other, and that the current effort to amend the Constitution is a recent creation of the "religious right" who seek to impose their morality on everyone else. (more…)