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February 20, 2017
PENDER: If Lt. Gov. Reeves doesn’t warm to internet sales tax nothing will happen on state roads
IGEOFF PENDER: Realpolitik: Partial road funding is now up to Reeves Put all the talk of an “impartial study” and “two policy lanes running in the same direction” aside. Here’s the bottom-line, realpolitik on funding to fix Mississippi’s crumbling roads and bridges: If lawmakers don’t pass the internet sales tax bill with money earmarked for…
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February 20, 2017
SALTER: Opponents of online sales tax forget many substantive facts
Sid Salter: Ignore the online sales tax special interests The fight in Mississippi over a very straightforward decision regarding whether it’s in the state’s best interests to collect the same 7 percent sales tax on online sales that we have forced bricks-and-mortar retailers to collect since 1932 is getting heated. Opponents of online sales tax collections…
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February 20, 2017
Former Gov, SECNAV Mabus wants to know what Russian “had to do with our democracy”
Former Miss. governor talks to Millsaps College students The former Secretary of the Navy says he wants to know about Russia’s involvement in the presidential election. Ray Mabus, who served under President Barack Obama, spoke Friday at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. He says he wants to know “what the Russian intelligence services had to…
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February 20, 2017
Internet sales tax effort aimed at challenging SCOTUS precedent
Mississippi internet sales tax would challenge legal precedent Some tax experts and conservative groups are questioning a proposed Mississippi regulation that would require large sellers to collect taxes on internet sales. Revenue Commissioner Herb Frierson agrees that the rule, not yet enacted, would directly challenge decades of U.S. Supreme Court precedent. He says challenging the…
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February 20, 2017
Gov. Bryant to call special session on education funding only after broad agreement in #msleg
Bryant: Special session only after consensus on education JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant says he will call a special legislative session on education funding only after lawmakers reach broad agreement on the main points of a proposal. Top Republicans in the House and Senate say they want to rewrite the school funding…
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February 20, 2017
Sen. @RogerWicker Votes to Confirm New EPA Chief Pruitt
RELEASE Wicker Votes to Confirm New EPA Chief WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today voted to confirm Scott Pruitt as the next Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator. In a speech delivered to the Senate in support of Mr. Pruitt’s nomination, Wicker said:…
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February 17, 2017
Governor William Winter’s speech to @MSTop50 event – a little bipartisanship for ‘ya
This is well worth 10 minutes of your time by Alan Lange
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February 17, 2017
@MSGOP chair Nosef visits Starkville, Golden Triangle to promote municipal elections
State GOP chair visits Starkville to talk municipal elections Donald Trump may have won the White House for the Republican Party, but that victory isn’t stopping state party leaders from taking a proactive approach as municipal election season approaches. Mississippi Republican Party Chairman Joe Nosef visited Starkville on Thursday and spoke with the SDN about…
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February 17, 2017
Legislative Agenda Update from the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office
RELEASE Update: 2017 Legislative Agenda of the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office Election Code Update – Technical updates to the Election Code as well as substantive revisions, such as the implementation of a certified poll manager training program; staggering of election commissioners’ terms; reduction in the number of paper ballots required to be printed and…
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February 17, 2017
Continental Tire hires Mississippi companies for 30 percent of site design work
Continental hires Miss. companies for 30 percent of work A Jackson engineering firm will receive a portion of the engineering design and program management contract for the new Continental Tire plant in Hinds County. SOL Engineering Services, LLC, owned by principals Willie O’Neal Jr. and Derek Starling Sr., is certified with the city of Jackson…
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February 17, 2017
State Economist, Deputy Treasurer discuss state economy, budget with Joint #msleg Budget Committee
13 things you need to know about the state economy Mississippi lawmakers, as they get down to brass tacks on a roughly $6 billion state budget, on Thursday received their “Legislative Economic Briefing” from State Economist Darrin Webb and Deputy Treasurer Jesse Graham. The news, mostly, wasn’t good. Webb, trying to look on the bright side…
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February 17, 2017
Lee County sees bills advance in #msleg to allow jail built outside Tupelo, hire youth court referee
Lee County criminal justice bills advance Two bills advanced Wednesday in the Mississippi Legislature designed to ease overcrowding in the Lee County criminal justice system. The House approved what is known as local and private legislation that would allow Lee County supervisors to construct a new jail outside of Tupelo’s borders. A state law was…
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November 6, 2026
Lipscomb, a first-time candidate, says, “These are not my first fights,” as she launches Secretary of State bid
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Paul Wiseman, Associated Press
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November 6, 2026
U.S. continues to generate jobs, yet inflation is eroding the spending power of millions of Americans
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Jeremy Pittari
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November 6, 2026
Reeves announces approval of more than 100 Opportunity Zones under federal tax program
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Meredith Biesinger
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October 22, 2026
New Albany’s claim to cake fame: Sugaree’s Bakery
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Frank Corder
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October 20, 2026
Fairbanks Morse Defense doubling manufacturing capacity at its Pascagoula facility
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Cass Rutledge
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October 20, 2026
Lumber manufacturer investing $8.3 million in Macon expansion
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Chris Burrows, Associated Press
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November 6, 2026
No. 2 Georgia and No. 12 Mississippi meet again in a showcase of two of the SEC’s best since 2023
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Susan Marquez
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November 6, 2026
Veteran’s Day events held across Mississippi
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Alistair Begg
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November 6, 2026
Love in action
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Russ Latino
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November 4, 2026
Democrats took Republicans behind the woodshed. The GOP has only itself to blame
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Sid Salter
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November 4, 2026
Like other tax proposals, California voters on Nov. 3 test-drove a tax on billionaires
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Russ Latino
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November 3, 2026
A time for choosing: America’s future is bigger than one election
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