Lowndes bond proponents make their case
Registered voters in the Lowndes County School District will go to the polls on Aug. 26 to choose whether or not to approve a $47 million bond for improvements.
Black colleges face hard choices on $25M Koch gift
America’s black colleges are struggling for funds. The Republican Party is struggling to attract black voters.
Lowndes voters to decide school bond issue
Lowndes County voters outside Columbus city limits will head to the polls next month to vote “Yes” or “No” on a $47 million school bond issue.
The proposed bond is part of a Lowndes County School District master plan that overhauls campuses in Caledonia, New Hope and West Lowndes.
GOP runoff shows new angle to minority voting
Sen. Thad Cochran’s GOP primary victory, thanks in part to black Mississippians who turned out to vote for him, exemplifies a new math that politicians of all persuasions may be forced to learn as this country’s voting population slowly changes complexion.
Political split outgrows the voting booth in America
Political polarization in America has broken out of the voting booth.
GOP struggles to recruit black voters
Like an eager date, Leo Smith showed up at Mount Zion First Baptist Church with a bouquet of flowers in hand.
He wasn’t seeking romance. He was seeking voters.
Area voter turnout less than 20 percent
Mississippi’s primary election may have been a hot topic around the country, but that buzz didn’t translate into heaving turnout at the polls.
Palazzo beats Taylor in 4th District GOP primary
Steven Palazzo has won the Republican nomination in Mississippi’s 4th Congressional District.
Palazzo leads Taylor in 4th District GOP primary
Incumbent congressman Steven Palazzo was on the cusp of securing the GOP nomination for his seat against Gene Taylor, the Democrat-turned-Republican trying to win his old job back. But the race remains too close to call.
Hoping legislative defeats boost voter turnout
Flip sides of the same campaign-season coin, the Republican drive in Congress to repeal the nation’s health care law and the Democratic call to close the pay gap for women have much in common.
The GOP advantage: Geography or gerrymandering?
Republicans helped solidify their hold on the U.S. House when GOP legislators in key states drew new congressional maps after the 2010 Census. But was it geography or gerrymandering that gave Republicans an edge in state after state?
Miss. politics change, U.S. House map varies little
Party loyalty is being tested in one of Mississippi’s U.S. House districts as a former Democratic congressman runs in a Republican primary.
Gene Taylor says he never asked constituents their political affiliation, and he hopes they’ll accept him with a new label.
Next up: TV ads just for you, dear voter
The days when political campaigns would try to make inroads with demographic groups such as soccer moms or white working-class voters are gone. Now, the operatives are targeting specific individuals.
Republicans promoting ways of helping the poor
Faced with an empathy gap before the 2014 midterm elections, Republicans are trying to forge a new image as a party that helps the poor and lifts struggling workers into the middle class.
Our view: Sales tax bill makes sense for city, county residents alike
As the Legislature begins its 2014 session, city officials around the state will be watching closely the progress on a bill that would allow city residents an opportunity to raise money for infrastructure improvements through a temporary sales tax increase.
GOP dilemma: Draw new voters without irking base
The Republican Party, having lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections, confronts a dilemma that’s easier to describe than to solve: How can it broaden its appeal to up-for-grabs voters without alienating its conservative base?
Absentee votes carried Stewart to runoff
The voters who kept long-time Ward 4 councilman Fred Stewart in the race never made it to the polls.
Absentee ballots accounted for 100 of Stewart’s 361 votes, enough to force a runoff election with challenger Marty Turner, who had accumulated 53.7 percent of the vote before the absentee ballots were counted.
In a first, black voter turnout rate passes whites
America’s blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama while many whites stayed home.
West Point voters pass tourism tax
It’s not the quantity of the voters that counted, but what the ones who voted had to say.
Voters in West Point passed a resolution to allow the city to levy a one-percent tourism sales tax, bringing the sales tax to nine percent on restaurant, liquor store and hotel/motel purchases.
Political conventions highlight Hispanic split
The Hispanics with the highest profiles in this year’s political conventions, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Mayor Julian Castro of San Antonio, stand as opposites in a cultural and political split that has divided millions of U.S. Latinos for decades.