Bobby Harrison

6 days ago | mississippitoday.org | Bobby Harrison

Editor’s note: Robyn Tannehill is the second-term mayor of Oxford and is unopposed for a third term. This piece is part of an ongoing Mississippi Today Ideas series showcasing perspectives of mayors across the state. Oxford is experiencing unprecedented growth and the challenges we face are unique in Mississippi. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that in 2023 Oxford had a population of only 27,000 residents.

1 week ago | mississippitoday.org | Bobby Harrison

Editor’s note: This essay is part of Mississippi Today Ideas, a platform for thoughtful Mississippians to share fact-based ideas about our state’s past, present and future. You can read more about the section here. Guess what? Immigration is good for America, and it is good for Mississippi! I have been a practicing attorney in Tupelo for 50 years. In 1992, a colleague suggested that I may wish to take on some immigration cases, as that appeared to be a growing area of the law.

1 week ago | mississippitoday.org | Bobby Harrison

The Mississippi Legislature’s insistence of not requiring oversight has resulted in a way for private schools to “double dip,” or receive money from two separate state programs to educate the same handful of students. There is currently no mechanism in state law to allow state officials to determine whether double dipping is occurring. More importantly, there is nothing in state law to prevent double dipping from occurring. So, maybe the private schools are double dipping and maybe they are not.

1 week ago | djournal.com | Bobby Harrison

The Mississippi Legislature’s insistence of not requiring oversight has resulted in a way for private schools to “double dip,” or receive money from two separate state programs to educate the same handful of students. There is currently no mechanism in state law to allow state officials to determine whether double dipping is occurring. More importantly, there is nothing in state law to prevent double dipping from occurring.

1 week ago | dailycorinthian.com | Bobby Harrison

On June 30, 2009, Sam Cameron, the then-executive director of the Mississippi Hospital Association, held a news conference in the Capitol rotunda to publicly take his whipping and accept his defeat. Cameron urged House Democrats, who had sided with the Hospital Association, to accept the demands of Republican Gov.