Perkins wants to change board appointment rules
Ward 6 Alderman Roy A. Perkins wants to amend the ordinance involving Starkville Board of Adjustment and Appeals appointments to allow his ward’s representative to serve a second consecutive term.
Conservative divide scuttles Mississippi term limits effort
An effort to get a term limits initiative on the Mississippi ballot was doomed because conservative volunteers started gathering signatures but later shifted their time and energy to the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, organizers said Monday.
Some want to limit justices to 18 years on Supreme Court
Justice Antonin Scalia’s sudden death a month before his 80th birthday and the potential impasse over replacing him is giving new impetus to an old idea: Limiting the service of Supreme Court justices.
Lynn Spruill: Term limits
Over the past 30 years or so I have had many a discussion about the pros and cons of term limits.
Group starts new Miss. term-limits ballot initiative
A group is starting a ballot initiative that proposes limiting Mississippi lawmakers and statewide elected officials to two consecutive four-year terms in the same office.
AG opinion changes little on vice-mayor term limit
The state Attorney General office said the position of vice mayor in Columbus is a four-year term but declined to say a vote councilmen took in July to put councilman Gene Taylor in that post for one year was void.
City to seek AG opinion on vice mayor term limits
In July, Columbus councilmen voted to appoint Ward 1 Councilman Gene Taylor as vice mayor for one year.
Prior opinions from the Mississippi attorney general office, however, say that once a vice mayor is appointed, he holds the position through the end of his elected term.
Our view: Term limits: an idea whose time has come
One of the universal criticism of a free press is that bad news seems to dominate its pages.
Although that claim is more imagined than real, it is a charge that newspapers cannot dismiss out of hand.