Politics
- Pro-Business Smoke Out
Much has been written about the regional bidding war for the new Kia auto plant—a war in which Georgia defeated Mississippi, and Alabama was never really a competitor. But as state officials tout the various economic incentives they can offer …
- PHM Bill heads to Governor
- Open thread for this week: Only two weeks left
- Barbour Vetoes Tobacco-Grocery Tax Bill
Following is Gov. Haley Barbour's statement today vetoing the popular effort to raise the tax on cigarettes and lower the tax on on groceries. Note that he is repeating his past statement about the effect the tax-switch would have on …
- One man's crusade
- Lott, Cochran Introduce Bill for Offshore Gulf Drilling
[verbatim statement] A bill to direct revenues to Mississippi and other Gulf states, generated by the expansion of deepwater oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico, was introduced in the U.S. Senate Wednesday by Senators Trent Lott and …
- And then there were four…
- Abortion ban passes
- The Battle of (House Bill) 1545
- My assessment on the Cheney episode
- Open thread for the week
- Fleming glad Lott sees the light on FEMA
- ‘Coon Hounds' Poem Causing Controversy
WMC-TV is reporting that a folksy poem by Paul Ott, proposed to the Legislature as the state poem, is causing controversy, with a group of Ole Miss professors and students saying it doesn't exactly make Mississippi look very, well, smart.
- Bills I authored this session that have survived
- Another reading assignment