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Mississippi’s next governor will appoint four new IHL board members in 2021. The Nov. 5 general election winner could, theoretically, appoint all 12 members of the board if re-elected to a second term.
Hood said he believes the state flag should “unite the state,” but would leave the debate to the Legislature. Reeves said voters should decide, adding that public universities should fly the state flag.
Mississippi Today analyzed and provided context for several of the lieutenant governor’s statements about the strength of the state economy, using federal labor data and interviews with state economist Darrin Webb
Party leaders are hopeful that the president will come to Mississippi to stump for GOP candidates. The effects of such a visit by Trump, who is facing an impeachment inquiry in Congress, will be closely analyzed.
“There are very few things that could galvanize and energize the Trump base of voters in Mississippi to the extent this could,” said a political science professor in Jackson.
Former senator served on the House Judiciary Committee as the committee weighed impeachment articles for President Richard Nixon. Then in 1999, he presided over the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton.
Nathan Shrader, chair of the Department of Government and Politics at Millsaps College, discusses what goes into planning political debates and why candidates are often coy about participating.
Increasing rural internet access, slowing down the flow of unwanted telemarketer calls and boosting the state’s energy efficiency are top priorities for each
Former Supreme Court Justice Ed Pittman, who reviewed Jim Hood’s investigation into the Tate Reeves frontage road scandal, discusses whether Reeves might have violated the state Constitution’s ethics clause.
The Biden campaign says the endorsements are the most yet from any statehouse
After the report was released, Reeves campaign said “This is just a 43-page political dirty trick by Jim Hood.” In a statement, Hood said “My view is that the report speaks for itself.”
A hastily planned event in Madison was designed to show Republican unity despite bad blood the party hopes to fix before November
Could Bill Waller’s refusal to endorse Tate Reeves help Jim Hood in November?
Delbert Hosemann, the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, this week sidestepped questions about endorsing Tate Reeves and criticized how the Legislature has been run
State Republican Party officials worked the phones after last week’s runoff in an effort to get endorsements from Waller and his allies and to unify the GOP electorate ahead of the Nov. 5 general election against Attorney General Jim Hood.