On a national level, the American criminal justice system is full of uncertainty, although criminals are most often thrust into local correctional facilities and state prisons. This puts a burden on state and local governments to deal with some of these criminal justice issues such as escapees and the ever-increasing...
This month, Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves submitted a bill for the “BRIDGE” Act, or the “Building Roads, Improving Development, and Growing the Economy Act.” Primary funding for this legislation comes from the recently proposed issuance of new bonds to pay for these projects. The bill will be returning to...
The news cycle is depressing. It has been for some time. Every story, hot take, Facebook rant or Tweet is a reaction, a reaction to a reaction or a reaction to a reaction to a reaction. It can become quite tiring, honestly. There is little time between an event and...
Since his election to the Mississippi state Senate in 2008, Chris McDaniel has proven himself as one of the nation’s most valiant defenders of constitutional liberties and God-given freedoms at the state level. As recipient of the American Conservative Union’s Award for Conservative Excellence in 2016 and two 100 percent...
It was a typical sweltering Mississippi summer day when I first heard the junior U.S. senator from Mississippi, Roger Wicker, speak at the Neshoba County Fair. We are both from Pontotoc, but our paths had never crossed before then. It was exciting to finally meet the man who had transformed...
House Bill 1083 was overwhelmingly passed 80-29 by the Mississippi Legislature last month, which, if signed into law, would allow enhanced concealed carry permit holders to carry their guns on public property. In light of recent school shootings, the Mississippi Senate will vote on an amendment of HB 1083 that...
The recent protests, marches and town halls over the mass shooting in Florida have stirred many students emotionally over the past weeks. The country watches as people not even 20 years old weep over their lost friends, publicly processing grief and trauma most can not imagine. They choose to go...
Recently, I attended the spring Honors Convocation, which centered around human trafficking advocacy. Honors College artist-in-residence Bruce Levingston moderated discussions with founder of the nonprofit “Freedom for All” Katie Ford and trafficking victim and activist Shandra Woworuntu. One of the very first comments Woworuntu made was, “We have to stop...
On Feb. 26, Gov. Phil Bryant posted on his official Facebook page a piece from the Clarion-Ledger. The piece centers around a Southern Poverty Law Center report of active hate groups in the United States that rates Mississippi as having the third most hate groups per capita. The report from...
On Jan. 31, The Daily Mississippian reported that the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation would relocate to Jackson and reconstitute as an independent nonprofit. Announcing the transition, former Gov. Winter praised “the vision (of the University of Mississippi) to establish and incubate the Institute for Racial Reconciliation on its...
