Other Editors: A better way to entice business
Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann is leading the charge to simplify and better cost-justify the incentives that Mississippi gives to lure new businesses and help others expand.
Analysis: Hosemann dives into role as lieutenant governor
Mississippi’s new Republican lieutenant governor, Delbert Hosemann, has a reputation for working hard and expecting others around him to do the same.
Hosemann says he’s ready to work as lt. governor
Mississippi’s incoming lieutenant governor is setting an ambitious agenda for his first year in office.
Republican Delbert Hosemann will be sworn in Jan. 9, along with most of the other statewide elected officials.
Photo: Hosemann announces campaign
Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann officially kicks off his campaign for lieutenant governor before a small group of supporters Wednesday in the courtyard of the BankTEL Systems building in Columbus. Hosemann, 71, emphasized workforce development as a key part of his agenda during his brief address. Hosemann, a Republican from Jackson, is completing his third term as secretary of state.
Mississippi election leader predicts strong voter turnout
Mississippi’s top elections official is predicting strong voter turnout as people statewide choose two U.S. senators.
Slimantics: Hosemann’s uphill voter turn-out battle
Tuesday, as a part of a four-stop tour in north Mississippi, Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann spoke to an assembly of high school seniors at Columbus High School and New Hope High School.
Hosemann to high school seniors: Voting is an obligation
During their Tuesday morning assembly the roughly 250 members of the senior class at Columbus High School turned their attention to an important date on the calendar — graduation day — as they were informed about how to order everything from caps and gowns to class rings.
But the students’ attention was also directed to another day, Nov. 6, the date of the general election in Mississippi.
Hosemann to visit Lowndes County on Voter Registration Day
In June, just 13.5 percent of registered voters went to the polls in the primary elections, and Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann seems to have taken it personally.
Hosemann: Educated workforce vital for state’s future
Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann sees an educated workforce as the key to a strong economic future for the state.
Feds and Mississippi fight over who should clean up fraud
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Mississippi’s secretary of state are fighting over who should collect assets and repay victims of a $100 million-plus fraud.
Mississippi secretary of state hints at run for other office
Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann says he’s not running for his current office again but won’t say what he’s running for next.
School district, business partners plan strategy for career tech center
By the end of 2019, Lowndes County will have more $55 million in new, state-of-the art workforce training facilities.
Mississippi already shares some voter info with other states
Mississippi’s top elections official says he is consistent by sharing some voter information with other states while also telling a national group to “jump in the Gulf of Mexico” as it requests similar data.
Trump upset states not fully cooperating with voting panel
President Donald Trump is upset that all states aren’t fully cooperating with his voting commission’s request for detailed information about every voter in the United States.
Hosemann to federal commission: ‘Go jump in the Gulf of Mexico’
Mississippi’s top elections official says he will not deliver personal information about voters if he receives a request from a commission appointed by President Donald Trump.
Anti-McQueen ads could violate state law
Billboards and fliers pushed by an anonymous group that attack Columbus mayoral candidate Selvain McQueen could violate Mississippi campaign finance laws.
Slimantics: Hosemann’s leadership is a rare commodity
Nine years ago, during Delbert Hosemann’s first campaign for Mississippi Secretary of State, the only thing that stuck with most Mississippians outside of Hosemann’s hometown of Vicksburg was his unusual name.
Hosemann introduces election reform proposals
Delbert Hosemann saw a need for change.
Hosemann talks 42, 42A in Columbus
As the November election creeps closer, voters statewide find themselves under siege from both sides of the education funding debate.
Primaries offer 1st major test of voter ID
In elections that begin next week, voters in 10 states will be required to present photo identification before casting ballots — the first major test of voter ID laws after years of legal challenges arguing that the measures are designed to suppress voting.