Gov. Bob Ferguson directed all state agencies to raise the flags to full-staff on Jan. 20 in honor of Inauguration Day.

Then take a walk just down Pascagoula Street to Thalia Mara Hall. While the American flag appears to be in good condition, the state of Mississippi flag is ripped in half, showing only the red end.

Several Republican Governors have pledged to fly their flags at full-staff, despite President Biden’s former directive.

Even Richard Nixon was honorable enough that he ordered the flag at half-staff for his own inauguration. Not Trump.

After a former president dies, federal flag code dictates that flags should be flown at half-staff for 30 days out of respect. When Carter died Dec. 29 at age 100, President Joe Biden issued a ...

President-elect Donald Trump has expressed frustration that flags will be flying at half-staff when he takes office later ...