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July 25, 2016

AP Analysis: Mississippi may have the most racially polarized electorate in the nation

Analysis: MS Dems’ odds remain long Looking at predictions of seven forecasting groups, Mississippi is rated less of a lock for Republicans than Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee or Alabama. The Magnolia State looks a little more Republican than Georgia, which is hailed as the next target after Virginia and North Carolina for Democrats in the South.…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
July 25, 2016

Are Mississippi’s 204 agencies, boards and commissions a bureaucracy out of control?

Critics: Mississippi’s state bureaucracy out of control “With our state government, we have created what you wouldn’t create if you were running a lemonade stand,” Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann said recently of the state’s 204 agencies, boards and commissions. Until Hosemann compiled a list a couple of years ago at the behest of Gov.…