Mississippi House Rep. Price Wallace, a Republican from Mendenhall who supported reinstating the ballot initiative as chairman of the House Constitution Committee, died on Wednesday at age 64.

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With the 2027 statewide election coming up, Mike Watkins said the Mississippi medical-cannabis community wants candidates who support the ballot initiative—instead of career politicians who have not made any efforts to revive it.

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Yes, Virginia! The passage of a ballot initiative that allows Virginia Democrats to gerrymander the state’s congressional districts will make it easier for Democrats to win the House and put another check on our autocratic president. But just as importantly, the aggressive, collective gerrymandering pushes by Democrats in California and now Virginia show a party that finally fully understands…

The Alaska Legislature will hold a public hearing Thursday afternoon on election-related ballot initiatives. The Division of Elections certified three ballot initiatives that will be on Alaskan’s ballots in November. State law requires the legislature to hold at least two public hearings on each certified ballot measure. The sponsors of all three ballot measures and […]

To tax the richest Americans, we need to go after their wealth, not just their income. Two proposals — one in California, one in Congress — could finally do it. The alternative is an ever-more-powerful billionaire class that threatens democracy itself.

Three-quarters of the ultrarich’s true economic income will never be subject to income taxes, even very progressive ones. That’s why a…