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October 20, 2014

Southern Transportation Commissioner Tom King: “There’s a serious problem out there with bridges”

AP analysis: Mississippi’s failing bridges now a mainstream concern However, if you ask Senate Transportation Committee Chairman Willie Simmons and Transportation Commissioner Tom King, people want to know about bridges — the ones that have fallen down and the ones that might — and who is going to fix them. “There’s a serious problem out…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
October 20, 2014

MINOR says Republican notion of tax cut by Legislature “dumbest idea I’ve heard” #MSLeg

This is a ‘dumb as a rock’ idea floating around The dumbest idea I’ve heard coming out of Republican fiscal leaders in the Legislature is to cut the state’s already skinny state tax base in the 2015 session. Two reasons: 1. They want to take it to voters next year as proof they’ve been down…