Editor’s Note | There Aren’t Two Equal Sides To Every Story
The urge to balance the unbalanceable with both-sides reporting that obscures the truth misunderstands the role of journalism.
The urge to balance the unbalanceable with both-sides reporting that obscures the truth misunderstands the role of journalism.
Democrat De’Keither Stamps won the Mississippi Public Service Commission’s central district election, ousting Republican incumbent Brent Bailey.
Lynn Fitch, the antiabortion Mississippi attorney general who led the Dobbs case that overturned Roe v. Wade, won reelection Tuesday night.
“Victory sure is sweet,” Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said Tuesday night as he declared victory over his Democratic opponent, Brandon Presley.
Voters will elect candidates to regional, legislative and state representatives in Mississippi’s general election on Nov. 7.
Duvalier Malone writes that low voter turnout delegitimizes the government, affects minorities and threatens Mississippi’s democracy.
Democratic Mississippi lieutenant governor candidate D. Ryan Grover wants to restore the ballot initiative and make voting easier if elected.
In early October, Mississippi Democratic candidate for governor Brandon Presley crisscrossed Jackson, shaking hands and taking selfies as he courted residents in the nearly 83%-Black capital city. He needed Jacksonians to vote if he was to have any chance of defeating incumbent Republican Gov. Tate Reeves on Nov. 7, he told supporters. He has made more efforts to court Black voters than the party’s 2019 nominee, Jim Hood.
Mississippi’s leading public teachers union is accusing Republican Gov. Tate Reeves of spreading “misinformation” over remarks he made during Wednesday night’s debate downplaying the group’s influence among state educators.
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