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February 11, 2016

MDOC Commissioner Fisher requests level funding, no cuts

Prison Chief Requests No Cuts in Budget At a House Appropriations Committee meeting Wednesday, Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Marshall Fisher recapped his efforts to cut costs and asked for $374 million in funding. It’s the same level of funding the department received last year. Fisher says the department is “seriously understaffed,” which leaves probation…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
February 11, 2016

HARRISON: Not surprising nor improper that Gunn turned to fellow Republicans for committee chairs

BOBBY HARRISON: Democratic chairs growing hard to find In 2016, Democrats did not try an alternative plan of picking up votes from the other side after they lost the November 2015 elections. They might have tried except for the fact that their effort would have been futile. In current day Mississippi, politicians are not switching…