Analysis: Stump speaking not as zippy in political off-year
The Neshoba County Fair can be one of the best places to see old-fashioned political stump speaking in Mississippi. But with no statewide or federal elections in 2017, this was a lackluster year for...
View ArticleBOBBY HARRISON: Hosemann could be wild card in scripted race for governor
Most believe the script – as least for the lead actors – already has been written for the 2019 statewide elections. Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves of Rankin County in suburban Jackson and Democratic...
View ArticleAnalysis: State symbols don’t have to go on the ballot
Defenders of the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag have a ready-made argument that was handed to them nearly a generation ago by lawmakers who didn’t want to deal with the politically...
View ArticleCARTOON — Reeves wears rose-colored glasses not eclipse glasses
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View ArticleBILL CRAWFORD — Waller and Randolph rumored as potential Reeves challengers
Rumors that Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves will get a serious primary challenger for governor intensify. There’s the rumor he can’t beat Attorney General Jim Hood so politicos and money men are looking to...
View ArticleLegislative leaders’ budget work soon going public
By BOBBY HARRISON / Daily Journal The long and winding road that leads to the Legislature’s finally passing a state budget for the upcoming fiscal year, beginning July 1, goes public later this week....
View ArticleBILL CRAWFORD: Reeves’ fiscal plan risky for teachers and retirees
State economist Darrin Webb projects state general fund revenues will fall for the third consecutive year. That’s unusual. According to the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, declines of just two...
View ArticleReeves: Senate looking for additional transportation funds
By BOBBY HARRISON / Daily Journal JACKSON – Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves said he anticipates the Senate developing a plan during the 2018 session to provide additional revenue for transportation, but he...
View ArticleGovernor: Mississippi reality different from critics’ view
Critics are painting a negative picture of Mississippi but the state is enjoying low unemployment and is improving its public education system, Republican Gov. Phil Bryant said Tuesday night in a State...
View ArticleROSS REILY — Legislature is intellectually dishonest on education
We keep hearing — over and over and over again — what a wonderful atmosphere there is in Mississippi for business. The Governor, Lt. Governor and Speaker of the House love to talk about how cutting...
View ArticleBILL CRAWFORD: Reeves’ BRIDGE Act would endow his governorship
Love him or hate him for it, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves stays true to his autocratic ways. He dropped his complex $1.1 billion “Building Roads, Improving Development, and Growing the Economy (BRIDGE) Act” on...
View ArticleCommunity improvement district supporters rally for legislation
By JACK WEATHERLY jack.weatherly@msbusiness.com Supporters of a bill that would create community improvement districts in cities across Mississippi rallied at the state Capitol Tuesday to urge Lt. Gov....
View ArticleBudget work completed, session nearing end
The Mississippi Legislature finished work Tuesday on its $6.1 billion budget when legislation passed both chambers to set parameters on the state’s Medicaid program. With the budget completed, only a...
View ArticleAnalysis: Mississippi lawmakers leave big issues unresolved
Leaders of the Republican-dominated Mississippi Legislature put only a few big items on their to-do list for 2018, and two of the biggest — education and transportation— remained unresolved when the...
View ArticleAgency: ‘Political pressure’ drives $2M road to Reeves’ home
The head of the Mississippi’s road-building agency says political pressure is why her cash-strapped department is building a $2 million access road to a gated subdivision where Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves...
View ArticleMississippi delays road to lieutenant governor’s subdivision
The Mississippi Department of Transportation is putting the brakes on a plan to build a $2 million access road to a gated subdivision where Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves lives. Transportation commissioners said...
View ArticleReeves says he’s not to blame for planned road near his home
Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves said Wednesday that he did not pressure the Mississippi Department of Transportation to build a $2 million road near his gated neighborhood. Reeves said Central District...
View Article#justsayin’ takes a look at Tate Reeves and Jim Hood at the Neshoba County Fair
In this cartoon, Ford Williams caricatures Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and Attorney General Jim Hood and their road paving feud. The scene is the Neshoba County Fair Pavilion where both elected...
View ArticleReeves, transport director differ over highway communication
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves said Thursday that a state agency director is backing off of accusations that Reeves and his staff used political pressure to push a highway project near his home....
View ArticleBILL CRAWFORD — Anomaly vs. tsunami in Hood vs. Reeves for Governor
BILL CRAWFORD And so it begins, the anomaly versus the tsunami, the hope versus the expectation, the last Democrat versus the next-in-line Republican. Mississippi’s only Democrat holding statewide...
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