NMissCommentor

Open Records vs. Secretly Petitioning The Government: There’s a referendum on the ballot in Washington State about gay marriage.  Groups fighting the referendum and/or interested in open records issues sought the names of the people who signed the petition to place the issue on the ballot.  One side argued that these lists were usually not [...]

Here’s the website for Bill Luckett’s Progress Mississippi PAC, which answers a question Ben asked in comments.  Nice logo.
105 year old guitarist Huey Long (no, not that one) died in Houston.  He played with everyone from Fletcher Henderson to the Ink Spots to Dizie Gillespie to Earl Hines.  Here’s his NY Times obit.
The Commercial Appeal [...]

Bill Luckett, a lawyer in Clarksdale and business partner with Morgan Freeman, has formed a a political action committee called Progress for Mississippi as part of working up to a run for governor as a Democrat year after next.  The AP interviewed him about the decision to set up the PAC.
Luckett said his upbringing in [...]