Skip to content

News

News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
January 6, 2015

Speaker Pro Tem Greg Snowden (R), Rep. Charles Young (D) talk legislative priorities

Snowden, Young address legislative priorities Mississippi House Speaker Pro Tempore Greg Snowden (R) Meridian, said Friday a strong surge in revenues has the state budget up by $50 million at the end of December. Snowden said he looked at the numbers as the calendar year of 2014 ended from figures posted by the Mississippi Legislative…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
January 6, 2015

Sen. Thad Cochran returns to Appropriations chair in new Congress

New Senate chairmen aim to undo Obama’s policies The gavel of the powerful panel responsible for drafting approximately one-third of the federal budget will return to Mississippi’s Thad Cochran, who turned 77 in December and was just re-elected to a seventh term. Cochran was in charge during the last two years of the previous GOP…