Perspective

• BILL CRAWFORD: Republican strategist questions what GOP now stands for
• ROGER WICKER: Higher pay, more jobs, better tax code
• JACK WEATHERLY: Tax hike is one thing, bright outlook for gasoline is another
• BOBBY HARRISON: New House Democratic leader became key ally of last Democratic speaker after voting against him
• JASON SHELTON: Success needs all leaders working together
• SID SALTER: Bryant never strayed far from his deputy sheriff roots in governing over his long career
• GEOFF PENDER: How will Gov. Reeves get along with Gunn and Hosemann? Mississippi’s leaders have a contentious past
• BILL CRAWFORD: Ignored problems don’t disappear, they become crises
• BILLY HEWES: Thanks for the memories, Gov. Bryant
• EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS: Hosemann Delves Into Role as Lieutenant Governor

State News

• SH: Plan would force Army Corps to study options to opening Bonnet Carré
• CA: Operations center, 350 jobs mark Google’s entry into Memphis metro area
• SH: Coast saw 60% more new business development in 2019. Here are the biggest openings.
• AP: 3 dead as suspected twisters, other storms batter the South
• WLOX: Hackers infect Pascagoula’s data systems, demand ransom
• CL: Opportunity Zones: Is a Trump tax break spurring development in Mississippi?
• CL: AG’s office says Madison’s ordinance may violate state’s enhanced gun carry permit law
• CL: Amazon bringing second facility to Mississippi that will create 500 jobs
• AP: Ailing ex-telecom executive Ebbers seeks release from prison
• WJTV: Remains of long-missing soldier coming home to Mississippi

Politics and Government

• DL: 2 area educators selected for state education advisory council
• CL: State Supreme Court upholds 12-year sentence for man who brought cellphone into jail
• DJ: IHL board postpones vote to relocate Confederate monument on UM campus
• CL: ‘Leadership crisis’: Mississippi searches nationwide for prison commissioner, names interim
• AP: Senate panel OKs last bit of teacher pay for current year
• CL: Funding, policy changes top cities, counties wish lists for Mississippi Legislature
• AP: Mississippi: Wide search for new leader of troubled prisons
• CL: Jay-Z, Yo Gotti follow through on lawsuit over Mississippi prisons. ‘Lives are in peril’
• CL: Parchman prison Unit 29 deemed unsafe. Where will 625 Mississippi inmates go?
• CL: Mississippi Legislature: First bills filed include $1,000 teacher pay raise

Blog

• MT: Why a DOJ probe, the latest in a string of actions against Mississippi prisons, could take years
• JJ: Lawmakers Refused to Increase Parchman’s Funding, Then Chaos Erupted
• MT: Ep. 89: Medical marijuana initiative makes November ballot, could provide big 2020 political fight
• YALL: New Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch to appeal 15-week abortion ban to SCOTUS
• JFP: State’s Payments to CoreCivic for Housing Inmates at Private Prison May Exceed Legal Limits
• JJ: Former Sheriff’s Son Arrested in Stabbing
• HT: IHL Tables Vote to Move Confederate Monument
• MT: Four freshmen lawmakers say speaker wants them to give up retirement pay or resign
• MT: Amid festering crisis, Reeves confronted with embattled and leaderless prison system
• YALL: YP Daily Roundup 1/15/20