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Culture  |  Frank Corder  • 
February 22, 2022

Mississippi Senate seeks to divert wind pool moneys to buoy dwindling state employee insurance fund

Coast legislative delegation, Insurance Commissioner Chaney worry that the diversion of funds will result in higher rates, less stability. Since its creation and subsequent revisions in 2007 following Hurricane Katrina, the Mississippi Windstorm Underwriting Association, known as the wind pool, has had legislative appropriators seeing dollar signs despite the fact that it is not a…
Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
February 22, 2022

Mississippi Senate income tax cut plan makes its way through Finance Committee

The Senate’s plan must be moved off the floor by the Wednesday deadline.  The Mississippi Senate has dropped its income tax cut plan just two days before the deadline for floor action on revenue bills in the originating chamber. RELATED: Mississippi Senate to drop tax reduction plan to eliminate 4% income tax bracket The legislation…