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September 20, 2017

Medicaid contracts go forward after no review board action

Medicaid plans to go forward with contracts after no action by review panel JACKSON – Members of the state Personal Service Contract Review Board refused to adopt its own staff recommendations to approve contracts totaling about $2 billion annually awarded by the Division of Medicaid to three managed care companies. But the five-member board also…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 20, 2017

City of Ocean Springs raises taxes to support employee raises, annexation

Ocean Springs increases city taxes to fund employee raises, annexation bid OCEAN SPRINGS, Mississippi — For only the second time in the past two decades, the City of Ocean Springs has raised property taxes. Last week, aldermen voted 6-1 to enact a three-mill increase on ad valorem taxes in the city. Each mill represents $10…