Editorials

Editorial Roundup

Pork-barrel politics alive and well 

Jeff Smith, the Republican chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in Mississippi’s House of Representatives, may get a slap on the wrist from his party’s leadership for saying it, but he confirmed what Capitol observers know to be true.

IRS needs lesson from Willie Sutton 

American folklore has it that when a reporter asked 20th century bank robber Willie Sutton why he robbed banks, Sutton replied, “Because that’s where the money is.”

The future

of fast food

Granted, big cities in China are about as far from small-town Mississippi as you can get. But something’s happening there that is sure to occur here one day.

The future

of fast food

Granted, big cities in China are about as far from small-town Mississippi as you can get. But something’s happening there that is sure to occur here one day.

Let McCain be

 Now that Donald Trump can rail about being unfairly persecuted by the special prosecutor’s probe, maybe he will get off John McCain’s case.

Bryant can stop ‘dark money’

Unless Gov. Phil Bryant exercises his veto power, Mississippi is about to take a huge step backward in letting voters know who is bankrolling whom in elections.

The Legislature has passed a measure, House Bill 1205, that will open the door to political payoffs that will be impossible to ferret out.

Bryant can stop ‘dark money’

 Unless Gov. Phil Bryant exercises his veto power, Mississippi is about to take a huge step backward in letting voters know who is bankrolling whom in elections.

Agency wastes money on fight

 Some principles are worth fighting for, especially when someone else is ponying up the money to pay for the fight.