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Adam Ganucheau has covered politics and state government for Mississippi Today since February 2016. A native of Hazlehurst, Adam has worked as a staff reporter for AL.com, The Birmingham News and The Clarion-Ledger and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Adam earned his bachelor’s in journalism from the University of Mississippi.
In his last days as lieutenant governor, Tate Reeves made a controversial appointment to the state board of education. Later this session, senators could reject that appointment.
Appointment sets up a potentially dramatic Senate committee vote for former state Sen. Nancy Collins who became a top adversary of public education advocacy groups after she sponsored voucher-like legislation while serving in the Senate
Gunn’s public resistance to the proposal this week all but kills it in the House, where the speaker’s position regularly makes or breaks major pieces of legislation
While the findings of the audit called for MDOT to better manage its vehicle fleet and its schedule of projects, the report also found that the transportation department meets or exceeds industry standards in most regards
State Reps. Billy Andrews and Dale Goodin say a decision by House Speaker Philip Gunn will force them and two other newly elected lawmakers to give up their pensions or to resign from office.
The day before the Senate voted to acquit Trump of both impeachment charges, Sens. Wicker and Hyde-Smith gave their own floor speech
The federal agency will look at conditions inside Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, and Wilkinson County Correctional Facility
Despite the low fundraising marks, Hyde-Smith holds at least a $600,000 cash advantage over the next closest candidate for the seat she holds
Mississippi Today political reporters recap the first quarter of the 2020 legislative session and discuss how a teacher pay bill could stir controversy at the Capitol.
Keith Carter, who formerly headed the athletics foundation, joins the heads of the alumni association and university foundation in supporting a plan to move the monument from a prominent place on campus to an on-campus Confederate cemetery
During the 35-minute speech, Reeves covered much of the same ground as his 2019 campaign for governor and priorities from his previous two terms as lieutenant governor
Sen. Angela Turner Ford, D-West Point, talks legislative priorities from prison reform to education to health care.
Mississippi’s senior senator talks impeachment exclusively with Mississippi Today
When asked if Democratic impeachment managers could sway her stance on supporting President Trump, Mississippi’s junior senator had no comment. She has fiercely defended the president throughout the impeachment process
As the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump gets under way in the U.S. Senate, Mississippi’s senior senator says he will listen to the evidence — even though he sees no proof of wrongdoing by the president