President Biden pre-emptively pardoned Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, chair of the House Jan. 6 committee, hours before Trump's inauguration.

The Mississippi House of Representatives will likely move on an ambitious $1.1 billion tax cut package this week, touting enormous cuts to the personal income and grocery sales taxes and adding tax revenue and other funds to several areas of the state budget to lighten the blow.

It is unlikely that a bill to give what some people call universal school choice to families in Mississippi will pass through the Legislature this session. However, versions meant to "baby step" the initiative, as House Speaker Jason White put it during a ...

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, he has built the most formidable foundation of Republican electoral strength since the Ronald Reagan era in the 1980s.

President Biden issued a blanket pardon for his brother James Biden, effectively burying the final details of a more than five-year probe into the first family’s influence peddling to

House plan to eliminate income tax draws bipartisan support, but also tough questions from House Democrats concerned about fiscal impact.

Biden’s administration also ended the practice of mass worksite arrests, which were common under Trump, including a 2019 operation targeting Mississippi chicken plants. Trump aides have said immigration officers will arrest others, such as spouses or roommates, who are not targets but happen to be in the country illegally.

Gov. Tate Reeves and members of the state’s Republican leadership should send President Joe Biden a thank you card as he leaves office. After all, the plans of Reeves and others to eliminate the state income tax,

For the 2025-2026 school year in Arkansas, only 5% of the voucher recipients that have applied were moving from public to private school. In the 2024 school year, according to Arkansas Department of Education records, 82% of the students in the program were already private or home schooled.