Governor likely to call Friday session to address economic development
Gov. Haley Barbour is expected to call lawmakers to the Capitol starting Friday for a special session dealing with economic development.
Lawmakers have been asked informally to prepare for the session to begin at 10 a.m. The special session will be the fourth this calendar year and the first since lawmakers ended fiscal 2010 budget discussions.
Barbour said last week he anticipates a one-day session to address incentives for a “very sophisticated, advanced manufacturing” operation that would create 500 jobs in the Mississippi Delta over five years.
“I think we can be out in a matter of hours,” state Rep. George Flaggs, D-Vicksburg, said of the special session. “This is an economic development issue that should not have any problems.”
Clarion-Ledger
10/27/9
Magnolia Tribune
