Virtually every one of the states in the country has a balanced budget requirement, either constitutionally or statutorily. We do in Mississippi.
The federal government, alas, does not.
So, as Jere points out in a recent post, when times get hard and revenue becomes scarce, state governments shrink in size. Ours [...]
MEC's annual political throw-down, Hobnob Mississippi, was the biggest ever last week. Under the big tent at the Ag Museum, all eight statewide officials, plus Rep. George Flaggs on behalf of Speaker Billy McCoy, spoke to a seated crowd of about 1,200, plus another couple hundred of folks hanging out [...]
Here's the real test of how serious legislators are about all the rhetoric to the effect that education is the state's top priority.
I don't agree with that premise, by the way, as I believe the fundamental role of government at every level is the security and safety of' [...]
