by Phil Hardwick Published: August 21,2011
Tags: home associations, homeowners, Marty Wiseman
Mr. and Mrs. Binder do not want to renew their homeowners’ association dues, but they will be legally forced to if they do not pay up. Mr. and Mrs. Washington on the other hand are not going to renew their homeowners’ association dues this year, but nothing will happen to them. Why the difference? The [...] [...]
by Marty Wiseman Published: August 14,2011
Tags: 2011 primaries, governor's race, Marty Wiseman, MBJ column
As the first round of the 2011 primaries is in the books, things are very similar to what they might have been 40 years ago. While one party is packing up the campaign materials and anticipating taking the respective oaths of office, the other is looking for bright spots where it can find them. The [...] [...]
by Marty Wiseman Published: July 31,2011
If you have paid even passing attention to the news lately you have no doubt heard multiple references to one political leader or another’s “political base.” This is because the task of solving problems in the political arena in a bi-partisan fashion is becoming more difficult than ever. Compromise as a path to policy agreement [...] [...]
by Marty Wiseman Published: April 24,2011
Tags: Marty Wiseman, MBJ Columns
The two-week Easter recess could not have come at a better time for members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Now, albeit briefly, they can relax their grips on each other’s throats, and we can use the time to take a deep breath and assess where we are. Perhaps most of us [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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