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Opinion  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
May 23, 2019

Will there be a Mississippi Democrat gubernatorial primary debate?

Candidate for governor, Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith has proposed a debate between Democratic candidates for Governor prior to the August 6 Primary. Previously, fellow candidate Velesha Williams also invited candidates to a debate forum by letter on April 4. “Republicans have already convened a debate at Mississippi State University earlier this year and…
Opinion  |  Editor  • 
May 22, 2019

Say it ain’t so.  Time to talk about the 2020 senate race already?

While warchests are still filling in anticipation of emptying for the statewide primaries in August and general election in November, there’s another political time bomb ticking with a shorter fuse than you might want to imagine.  The start of the 2020 US Senate race will likely coincide with the tail end of the 2019 elections…