by Marty Wiseman Published: April 17,2011
Tags: Marty Wiseman, MBJ column, Potomac Fever, View from the Stennis Institute
Perhaps my favorite work-related week of the year has become the one where I am able to observe college students become exposed to that disease or opportunity known as “Potomac Fever.” To the cynical older folks among us “Potomac Fever” is a malady to be dreaded. After all, how can one spend all day cussing [...] [...]
by Marty Wiseman Published: March 13,2011
Tags: Marty Wiseman, MBJ Columns
During my college days I well remember that a common theme among guest lecturers and political dignitaries alike was the need to have a balanced two-party system in the State of Mississippi. Admittedly this opinion would often be delivered with no small amount of smugness on the part of the faux benevolent Democratic Party-oriented speaker. [...] [...]
by Marty Wiseman Published: February 27,2011
Tags: Marty Wiseman, MBJ Columns
As we look at the recent rhetoric surrounding the federal budget and the Cairo-like demonstrations in Madison, Wis., it would be easy to get the idea that the relationship between free market capitalism and American-style representative democracy is threatened with coming apart. In reality, American democracy and capitalism need each other even if their adherents [...] [...]
by Marty Wiseman Published: February 13,2011
Tags: Marty Wiseman, MBJ column
There has certainly been no problem in filling the agenda of the 24-hour news channels in recent days. All that was needed was to place cameras atop high buildings surrounding Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, and capture the minute-by-minute activities of young protesters demanding the “return of their government” and the “restoration of their constitutional [...] [...]
by Marty Wiseman Published: January 16,2011
Tags: Marty Wiseman, MBJ Columns
President Ronald Reagan’s dream of a return to the practice of “dual federalism” as described in the original constitution is coming closer to reality. Dual federalism is a term used by those who attempt to sort out and describe the relationships between the national, state and local levels of government within our federal system. Over [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: January 9,2011
Tags: 2011 governor’s race, Bill Luckett, Dave Dennis, Marty Wiseman, Phil Bryant, Willie Nelson
Electronic campaigning, even the unsolicited variety, a big part of 2011 governor’s race A few years ago, before iPhones and BlackBerries gobbled up the mobile phone market share, Bill Luckett and Willie Nelson found themselves in Clarksdale for a meeting of a company’s board of directors on which they both sat. The meeting over, Luckett [...] [...]
by Nash Nunnery Published: December 26,2010
Tags: Cecil Brown, Doug Davis, Legislature, Marty Wiseman
Making it work will be a long and arduous process for lawmakers They may align themselves on opposite sides of the political fence, but Democrats and Republicans in the Mississippi Legislature are in agreement about the hot-button issue facing the upcoming 2011 legislative session. “It’s the budget, no doubt about it,” said Rep. Cecil Brown, [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: November 7,2010
Tags: Alan Nunnelee, Bennie Thompson, Butler Snow, Gene Taylor, Gregg Harper, Marty Wiseman, Steven Palazzo, Travis Childers
Taylor, Childers beaten despite significant campaign money from business interests Among the winners of last week’s midterm elections in Mississippi were new Republican congressmen Alan Nunnelee and Steven Palazzo. Butler Snow had a pretty good election, too, but not because of incumbent fatigue. The Ridgeland-based law firm used the campaign finance market saturation model to [...] [...]
by Stephen McDill Published: November 1,2010
Tags: 2010 midterms, Alan Nunnelee, Barack Obama, Bennie Thompson, Bill Marcy, Bobby Harrison, Gene Taylor, Gregg Harper, Joel Gill, Marty Wiseman, Museum, Nancy Pelosi, Stennis Institute, Stephen Rozman, Steven Palazzo, Travis Childers
JACKSON- A panel of political analysts join the November Stennis Institute luncheon at Regions Plaza in Jackson to discuss the congressional midterm elections. [...]
by Stephen McDill Published: October 28,2010
Tags: 2010 midterms, Andy Taggart, Barack Obama, Dave Dennis, Delbert Hosemann, Haley Barbour, Jere Nash, Jim Hood, Marty Wiseman, Mississippi Economic Council, MS Agriculture Museum, Nancy Pelosi, Phil Bryant, Roger Wicker, Stennis Institute, Steven Palazzo, Travis Childers
JACKSON- The Mississippi Economic Council’s “Hobnob Mississippi” swung from somber to humorous and back again as pundits, politicians and the Magnolia State’s business leaders came together for the annual event. [...]
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