Bobby Harrison: "Give Mississippi legislators credit. Without being cajoled, threatened or begged, they fully funded education during the recently completed special session." buff.ly/XjYDoqt

"If HR 1 were to become law with the voucher provision intact, it would set Mississippi back decades and establish a dangerous precedent: allowing private interests to decide which of the country’s children will be educated with federal dollars." buff.ly/VPhrJbl

Our leaders’ guiding principle should be not to make life unnecessarily harder, especially for marginalized groups, writes Eric Solomon. mississippitoday.org/2025/06/27/a-p…

Advocate says she sees American children who are fearful of their own government because of the assault on birthplace citizenship.mississippitoday.org/2025/07/04/adv…

Americans have the right to free speech and to an independent press that has the right to question and challenge our elected leaders. But there is reason to fear that some of our leaders are trying to erode those rights, writes Bobby Harrison. buff.ly/HcyybJp

Column: Requiring work for Medicaid recipients — a provision that killed an effort in 2024 to expand Medicaid in Mississippi — is now law of the land under Trump's so-called "Big Beautiful Bill." Expanding Medicaid could still save lives. buff.ly/7cCP2m6

Professor says, “Important lessons the Air Force taught my father would be illegal today, 55 years later, if presented in any Mississippi school or university.” mississippitoday.org/2025/07/18/att…

Whether you want to curse him or praise him, the first-term House speaker is taking strong stances, writes Bobby Harrison. mississippitoday.org/2025/07/20/jas…

"Mississippi just doesn’t offer the same experiences I’ve come to take for granted, and I’m reminded of that every time I return home for a visit," writes Donald Kizza-Brown. mississippitoday.org/2025/07/22/rho…

Liz Brister, president of Downtown Jackson Partners, writes: “A vibrant capital city is tantamount to a dynamic state. Downtown is at the heart of it all.” mississippitoday.org/2025/07/25/dow…

Bobby Harrison: Don’t look now, but thanks to the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, health care, which by nearly every metric already is bad in Mississippi, is going to get worse. mississippitoday.org/2025/07/27/hea…

Bobby Harrison: If ultra successful businessman Tommy Duff does run for governor of Mississippi in 2027, history will not be on his side. bit.ly/46xqt0S

Bobby Harrison: Would you like some public funds to take your family on vacation to Disneyland? Under the logic of some politicians who support "school choice," it's not out of the realm of possibility. mississippitoday.org/2025/08/10/pub…

Bobby Harrison: Don’t look for Mississippi to get involved in what appears to be an escalating redistricting war where states redraw their U.S. House districts to aid Republicans or Democrats ahead of a hotly contested 2026 national election. buff.ly/lS2xPzO

Bobby Harrison: Russia’s Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump and many Mississippi politicians, including Gov. Tate Reeves, have something in common. mississippitoday.org/2025/08/24/put…

Haley Barbour writes, “The greatest hero of Hurricane Katrina, the people of Mississippi: who got knocked down flat, got back up, hitched up their britches and went to work. They went to work helping themselves and helping their neighbors.” mississippitoday.pulse.ly/bs6v5nibiu

Bobby Harrison: If politicians continue to refuse to expand Medicaid, the number of Mississippians with no health insurance will rise in the coming years. ow.ly/Qj8f50WOnUF

Bobby Harrison: The rising costs of health insurance on the ACA exchange could be issue in 2026 Senate election between Democrat Scott Colom and incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith. buff.ly/3AkLdVa

Bobby Harrison is the editor of Mississippi Today Ideas. djournal.com/opinion/column…

Bobby Harrison: Roger Wicker helped pass a key bipartisan health program in 1997 that helped poor Mississippi families. Will he do something similar in 2025? buff.ly/hivOUOd