Jackson NAACP: Hinds Elex Commish Connie Cochran Should Resign
The Jackson branch of the NAACP is calling for the ouster of Connie Cochran, the chairwoman of the Hinds County Election Commission, for problems during the Nov. 4 general election. Some precincts saw unexpectedly high turnout. Some of those polling places ran out of ballots late in the evening, which ...
Governor Snubs Public Education Funding
Keeping with the status quo, Gov. Phil Bryant has shorted public education in his 2016 budget recommendation. Below is a press release from Better Schools Better Jobs. JACKSON – Supporters of a citizens' initiative to require full state funding for K-12 education insist Gov. Phil Bryant's 2016 budget proposal does ...
Stanford: Gun Carry Laws Linked To Increase in Violent Crime
So you know that conventional wisdom that says the people are safer with a lot of guns around? Turns out maybe not so much. "The totality of the evidence based on educated judgments about the best statistical models suggests that right-to-carry laws are associated with substantially higher rates" of aggravated ...
Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner to Posthumously Receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Verbatim press release from the office of the U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson: WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Bennie G. Thompson (MS-02) released the following statement regarding President Obama’s plans to posthumously award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner: “Fifty years ago, the lives ...
Neo-Confederates Introduce Heritage Initiative
The Secretary of State posted a new initiative to its website that reads: Initiative #46 would amend the Constitution to restrict or define Mississippi’s heritage in the following areas: religion, official language, state flag, nickname, song, motto and state university mascots. Further, the initiative would prevent the consolidation of Alcorn ...
MDOC's Chris Epps Resigns; Agency Looks for Temp Commish
Christopher Epps, the long-tenured commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections has resigned effective today. The letter of resignation he submitted to Gov. Phil Bryant did not state a reason for the unexpected departure nor has MDOC made one public. The Clarion-Ledger cites "multiple sources" who confirm the existence of ...
Let's Keep Abortion Safe, Legal for All Women.
What Rev. Joseph Dyer has done in his column published in The Clarion-Ledger today is suggest that white women, who he stresses are inherently more privileged, should have more rights than women of color. His column is called "Let's keep abortions safe, legal for white women," and he calls this ...