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During two Mississippi State events in April, a longtime observer of state politics and the state's treasurer will provide individual perspectives on current issues of public interest.
Open to all, both programs are sponsored by the university's political science department.
A presentation on the 11th by Sid Salter, an MSU alumnus and the Clarion-Ledger's Perspectives Editor, is titled "State Politics and the New Journalism." Salter's program begins at 2:30 p.m. in the Colvard Student Union's second-floor Fowlkes Auditorium.
Salter, who attended MSU as a John C. Stennis Scholar in Political Science, is a veteran newspaper columnist who has been honored with inclusion in the Mississippi Press Association's Hall of Fame and as a national alumnus of the year by his alma mater.
The following week, Treasurer Tate Reeves will discuss "The Fiscal State of Mississippi" during a 2 p.m. gathering on the 16th in the John Grisham Room of Mitchell Memorial Library.
Elected Mississippi's 53rd treasurer in 2003, Reeves is the first Republican to hold the office. An economics honors graduate of Millsaps College, he also currently serves as president of the Southern Region, National Association of State Treasurers. He is outgoing NAST president.
For more information about the two programs, contact Whit Waide at 662-325-7860 or wwaide@ps.msstate.edu.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.