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How to increase your gratitude this Thanksgiving
By CHARLIE SMITH
Tue,11/26/19-12:01PM , 1,107 Reads
Thanksgiving is not only the chief of virtues, according to Roman orator Cicero, but the mother of them all.

“Every other virtue that you have begins out of gratitude,” the Rev. Bryant Barnes said at an ecumenical Thanksgiving service Sunday at First United Methodist Church in Columbia.
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Give thanks for our religious freedom
By CHARLIE SMITH
Tue,11/26/19-9:29AM , 2,403 Reads
This country’s settlers escaped hundreds of years of religious wars in Europe and wanted something different. The free practice of religion soon became a bedrock of the nation they founded, even before it was enshrined in the First Amendment.
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Don’t waste money on lottery tickets
By CHARLIE SMITH
Fri,11/22/19-8:24AM , 7,778 Reads
Here’s some investment advice, absolutely free for you to use to build your personal wealth: Do not throw away your money in the lottery.
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County incomes grew 5% in ‘18
By CHARLIE SMITH
Fri,11/15/19-9:40AM , 1,141 Reads
Newly released data shows Marion County again had one of Mississippi’s highest growth rates for personal income in 2018.

Average dollars earned per person here increased to $34,526 in 2018 from $32,880 in 2017, according to numbers the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis published Thursday.
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