Tate Reeves: “There will are no lockdowns and there will be no statewide mandates.”

The state legislature should repeal the COVID-era law and require mail-in ballots to be received by the clerk by 5:00pm on Election Day in order to be counted.

Until it is fixed, it means we do not have reliable running water at scale. It means the city cannot produce enough water to fight fires to reliably flush toilets and to meet other critical needs.

It really wasn’t a miracle at all. It was the direct result of very good, strong policy followed by a plan to properly implement, and also — and perhaps most importantly — an accountability piece that was built into the statute.

There is sadly no simple way for state government to just step in and pay the hundreds of millions of dollars in harm that this shutdown by the Washington Democrats is causing.