Reily’s ramblings

Barbour might not be so crazy after all

Once you start asking around about Gov. Haley Barbour’s proposal to merge three Mississippi universities into two others, the more you realize that it likely will never happen. That’s not to say that the idea that the Mississippi University for Women merge with Mississippi State University, and for Alcorn State University and Mississippi Valley State University [...]

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The only surprise is in the details of the university mergers

I think, at some level, no one was shocked at Gov. Barbour Monday when he said the state should consider merging some of its universities to save money. Barbour said Mississippi University for Women should merge with nearby Mississippi State University and that Alcorn State University and Mississippi Valley State University be merged into Jackson State [...]

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Courtroom tweeting not a distraction

From law.com last week, I read a recent ruling that would ban reporters tweeting from the courtroom. In United States v. Shelnutt (M.D. Ga. Nov. 2), a federal court in Georgia ruled that Rule 53 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure prohibits “tweeting” from the courtroom and that Rule 53 does not unconstitutionally restrict freedom [...]

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I don’t want no Democrat coroner touching my dead body

The reason for party affiliation in local politics, particularly in Mississippi, serves no purpose whatsoever. The only thing I can figure is that it gives the people holding office an opportunity to rub shoulders with state and national politicians. Otherwise, there are very few issues on the local level that hold any importance in regard to [...]

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