State not off to good start in new year

Posted: Sunday, January 7, 2018 12:00 am

A New year! 2018. That marks 28 years of columns, 1,456 in all. That’s the equivalent of writing 16 books. Whew!

Mississippi is not off to a good start. The Census Department is reporting that our state has lost population three years in a row. The losses are just a few thousand, but it means for the first time in 50 years, Mississippi has stopped growing.

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