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January 1, 2016

PERRY’s 2015 political review

BRIAN PERRY/2015 politics in review No year in Mississippi politics is dull. The year preceding a presidential election always means political activity with all Mississippi county offices, legislative seats and statewide offices up for election. But this year we also had a special congressional election, the creation of 7 new judicial seats, a competing citizen…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
January 1, 2016

New state Rep. Joel Bomgar wants to go big and bold with tax reforms

Legislators push for tax reform in ’16 Freshman state Rep. Joel Bomgar said Republicans control a supermajority in both the House and Senate and there should be no excuse not to pass conservative reforms this session. Near the top of the list of things he hopes to see is major tax reform. “We ought to…