SuperTalk Media MidDays with Gerard Gibert 2026-09-23

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Get ready to go beyond the headlines and join a meaningful conversation with people from around the state. You're listening to MidDays with Gerard Gibert here on SuperTalk Mississippi.

Gerard Gibert (1:02)

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to MidDays. SuperTalk Mississippi, I'm your host, Gerard Gibert. On location today in New Albany, Mississippi, for the Tallahatchie River Festival, Will East, handling the producer duties, safe and sound, back in the SuperTalk headquarters. We'll be guiding you through the middle of your day with facts, fodder, and fine music.

On this, as Rhino would say, home day, what's up there, Will?

Will (1:31)

How are things in New Albany?

Gerard Gibert (1:33)

Well, it was a pleasant ride up this morning. It was dark when I got up, of course, and hit the road because we are approaching the end of daylight saving time. And, you know, that's kind of what happens. But uneventful, beautiful landscape across the state of Mississippi. And I will say this, it's a little cool up here. I know that's crazy, but scary Gary's actually got a jacket on. And I'm serious. And in front of me, Alex Payton, our content director under the tent, she just got up to get in the sun, and she's got a little wrap on the top of her body as well. So but the sun is peeking through. It's a little cloudy and a little bit of a breeze. It feels like it's coming out of the north. But this is welcome. I mean, it's kind of teasing us with fall here. I'm not sure how permanent this little break is because it's been hot. I'm telling you, sitting in that stadium Saturday in Oxford, that may be the hottest I've ever been at a football game. Because it was breathless. Zero breeze in the stadium. Fortunately, it was at 6.3 in the evening. So when the sun went down, it made it a little better, but it was just completely dead calm and humid more than anything. So, but we got a lot of stuff to get to today. Again, again, at the Tallahatchie River Festival here in New Albany. I'm looking at the city hall. We're in the middle of downtown New Albany on the Tallahatchie Trail. As it is called, we got Sam Creekmore joining us in the next segment. He, of course, a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives. He represents where we are, Union County. He serves as the chairman of the House Public Health and Human Services Committee. Nancy Kidd, Director of Marketing and Physician Relations at nearby Baptist Memorial Hospital here in Union County, kicks us off in the top of Hour 2 We've got some local merchants. We've got Chris Brown, Northern District Public Service Commissioner. I know that we're going to talk to him about what's going on with the PSC, Will, but on social media over the weekend, I think a few days ago, he posted kind of an analysis and extending gratitude, if you will, to Speaker of the House Jason White for the select committees that he put together after the regular session, six of them, just to study, analyze, meet, discuss various critical issues across the great state of Mississippi. One of those, man, is to really get folks fired up, property taxes. People ain't real happy about property taxes, and I get it. I'm with them. And of course, you got property taxes on your real property. That would be your residence, your business, if you got one of those. And then you got property taxes on your personal property, such as your vehicle. So when you go buy your car tag, a big chunk of what you're paying there, those are actually property taxes, ad valorem taxes, as they are called. Those taxes stay local. They go primarily to school districts, a little more than half in general. And then 30 plus percent in general to the county in which the property is located or the vehicle is registered. And then the remaining goes to a city if the property or the vehicle, the homeowner, or the vehicle is registered within the city limits there. So that's kind of how that money shakes out. So the big problem is, okay, what do you do about that? You want to cut those taxes. In general, that means less revenue to the school districts, the counties, and the cities. And they would tell you, of course, we need all that money. Now, that is a subject for extensive debate.