Opinion

As reported in the Sun Herald, on July 29, former Governor Ray Mabus and Governor Haley Barbour took some digs at each other on the stump at the Neshoba County Fair. From the article “I don’t understand why it takes 61 percent more money to run the Governor’s Mansion now than it did with the…

Musgrove preparing to challenge Barbour?

Word has it that the recent interest expressed by Eric Clark in the IHL job would have set forth a fascinating domino effect. If Clark had left, word has it that Amy Tuck would have lobbied to get appointed to the Secretary of State to run as an incumbent (of what party, we now have…

$20 million a year in tobacco settlement money pits the governor and the legislature against the lieutenant governor and the attorney general. So just who does control Mississippi's purse strings?