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March 25, 2016

MINOR: What better issue for LG Reeves to run on for Gov in 2019 than income tax cuts

Bill Minor: Reeves could learn from Jindal’s costly mistakes Mississippi Republicans in 2003 recruited Reeves to run on their ticket for state treasurer, virtually snatching him from a junior banker’s cage in a Jackson bank. At age 29, the pink-cheeked Reeves became Mississippi’s youngest state-elected official in history. Many political observers attributed his election to…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 25, 2016

Appointed superintendents bill finally heads to Governor’s desk

Legislature approves appointed school superintendents After years of intense debate and failed efforts, the House on Thursday night sent a bill to Gov. Phil Bryant that will require all Mississippi school superintendents be appointed, rather than elected after January 1, 2019. The House, amid partisan fighting and the Democratic minority filibustering over claims of heavy…