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What Does the Flag Vote Mean?
State Procurement Laws Need Rigorous Reform
Mississippi Legislature Borrowing for Public University Projects
Electors and the Presidential Term
Dr. Fauci's Faulty Theories
Recent Commentary
Office of the State Auditor Plans to Audit of CARES Funding
The state auditor’s office has released its plan on how it plans to audit the $1.25 billion in federal funds sent to Mississippi. The department has already created a new website to allow citizens to track the spending of each dollar.
BPF Book Review | “The War on Cops”
If there is a more insightful tract for today’s tangled and tortured times, I don’t know what it is. “The War on Cops – How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe” was published in 2016, but the message is more relevant today than ever.
Broadband COVID-19 Grant Program Fund
Fifteen non-profit power associations, two rural water associations and two existing broadband providers will receive more than $66 million from a $75 million emergency broadband grant program using COVID-19 relief funds.
Asphidity Bags vs Face Masks
My grandmothers were born in the late 1800’s. They might have worn asphidity bags filled with smelly herbs to ward off colds and other diseases. Many rural folk did then. Some accounts say asphidity bags were used to ward off the Spanish Flu. So were face masks. They may have saved some lives. Who knows?
The Process for Changing the State Flag
On Sunday, June 28, 2020, the Mississippi Legislature passed a historic bill to retire the current state flag and to establish a process for creating a new one. There has been some confusion about the process of changing the state flag of Mississippi. Here is what that bill calls for.
Making Sense of Experts’ Nonsense
It’s not uncommon for experts to disagree. That’s why you get second opinions. Or should. If you need reminding, look at the conflicting admonitions, confusing advice about, and disastrous consequences of the COVID-19 lockdowns experts advocated. And at the cynical exploitation of their bad advice to advance political narratives.
The Mississippi Constitution has no provision for allowing voters to decide any public policy matter except amendments to the state Constitution. Our form of government being a republic, the Constitution places on elected representatives the responsibility to decide matters of the state. There is no “right” for voters to vote on such matters.
Yet, twice the legislature has asked voters for their opinion by use of an election ballot. Both times, in 2001 and now in 2020, the question has been on the design of the state flag.
Now that the state flag commission has chosen a design for the new banner, registered voters will have the chance to decide whether to approve the new design.
If voters approve it, the legislature will have to pass a bill to affirm that choice.
What Does the Flag Vote Mean? – Bigger Pie Forum
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The Mississippi Constitution has no provision for allowing voters to decide any public policy matter except amendments to the state Constitution. Yet, twice the legislature has asked voters for their ...