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January 24, 2014
MS House of Representatives Weekly Update for week of January 20
Week of January 20, 2014 During the last few weeks (and weekends), members and staff have logged many hours drafting legislation and introducing bills. To “introduce a bill,” a member submits it to the Clerk’s Office, the drop box on the House floor or to the Speaker’s Office. Once bills have been introduced, they are…
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January 24, 2014
US Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker support maintaining charitable tax deduction
Thune, Wyden Lead Bipartisan Group of Senators to Call for Maintaining the Charitable Tax Deduction WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senators John Thune (R-S.D.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), members of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, today led a bipartisan group of senators in a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch…
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January 24, 2014
Senate Candidate Chris McDaniel pledges not to increase spending
McDaniel Pledges Not to Increase Spending Chris McDaniel, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Mississippi, has signed the Coalition to Reduce Spending’s pledge to reduce spending. The pledge stipulates that McDaniel will not vote for any spending increase without offsets elsewhere in the budget and will vote only for budgets that put our government on…
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January 23, 2014
State Auditor’s Office, Biloxi Police Department Announce Arrest In Embezzlement Investigation
State Auditor’s Office, Biloxi Police Department Announce Arrest In Embezzlement Investigation JACKSON- State Auditor Stacey Pickering and Director John Miller of the Biloxi Police Department announced today that Brian Gregory, the Assistant Manager at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum & Convention Center Ticket Office, was arrested for embezzling nearly $32,000 from ATM’s owned by the state.…
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January 23, 2014
Palazzo talks to people at Senior Center
Palazzo talks to people at Senior Center picayuneitem.com
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January 23, 2014
PERRY – Bringing home the bacon
PERRY/Bringing home the bacon Republicans and Democrats alike praised the recent $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill passed last week; Republicans and Democrats alike also criticized it. All of Mississippi’s federal delegation voted for the measure that encompassed 12 appropriation bills. That includes the sole Democratic Congressman Bennie Thompson and all Republicans: Sens. Thad Cochran and…
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January 23, 2014
12 month pay fix for teachers moving forward in House
State lawmakers say Mississippi schoolteachers will be getting paid over 12 months despite the change in school start dates this year, but they can’t guarantee the same for other school employees. Bus drivers, cafeteria workers, custodians and others, lawmakers said, may have to shift to a nine-month pay schedule. Read more at ClarionLedger
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January 23, 2014
Groups express interest in starting as many as 30 charter schools in Mississippi
Groups say they’re interested in opening as many as 30 charter schools in Mississippi. Charter School Authorizer Board Chairman Tommie Cardin said he received letters of intent for as many as 28 schools by the 5 p.m. Wednesday deadline. A Columbus group said it also applied for two more schools, and Cardin said he expects…
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January 23, 2014
Wicker wants seafood inspected for mislabeling
Fish sold on U.S. retail markets are routinely mislabeled, harming consumers and threatening the livelihoods of American fishermen, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., said in a letter Wednesday to President Barack Obama. Calling government efforts to combat the problem “woefully inadequate,” they appealed to the president to order better coordination among…
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January 23, 2014
Coast Casino revenue lowest since 1999
Except for 2005 and 2006, when casinos were closed following Hurricane Katrina, South Mississippi hit its lowest total since 1999. Revenue still topped $1 billion but finished down $30 million, or 3 percent below 2012, according to numbers released late Wednesday by the state Department of Revenue. “I think competition is really hurting everyone,” said…
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January 23, 2014
City of Gulfport, Mississippi Secretary of State look to settle harbor suit
The city of Gulfport and the secretary of state’s office may have settled a lawsuit over the harbor. Gulfport City Council members voted 5-2 Wednesday to enter into a 65-year use agreement with the secretary of state on the water bottom. The agreement would cost the city nothing. “There must still be a final document,…
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January 23, 2014
Changes to Homestead Exemption not likely
The House Ways and Means Committee passed a bill Wednesday that would increase homestead exemption to give homeowners a break, but the measure would pull $69 million from the state treasury and hit county government coffers. And hours after the bill passed committee, word went out that it would be“re-committed,” or sent back to committee,…
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May 15, 2025
Magnolia Mornings: May 15, 2025
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Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press
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May 14, 2025
House Republicans pull an all-nighter on Trump’s tax bill. There’s more work to do
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May 14, 2025
Democrats are deeply pessimistic about the future of their party, an AP-NORC poll finds
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Frank Corder
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May 15, 2025
HH2 relocating Kentucky distribution center to Blue Mountain, Mississippi
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Frank Corder
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May 14, 2025
Nissan says Canton factory strategically important as company announces workforce reductions
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Frank Corder
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April 23, 2025
Amazon locating inbound cross dock operations in Marshall County, creating 1,000 jobs
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C.H. Spurgeon
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May 15, 2025
Be sure
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M.C. Reid
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May 14, 2025
Pascagoula sailor Nelson Walker sets out for solo circumnavigation aboard Persimmon
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Richelle Putnam
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May 14, 2025
It all begins with a song: The heart of the Mississippi Songwriters Alliance
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Sid Salter
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May 14, 2025
MS Gaming: Legislative standoff over off-premises online sports betting continues
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Kelley Williams
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May 12, 2025
Bad energy policy represents risk to ratepayers
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Bill Crawford
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May 11, 2025
State still hugs bottom as education advances
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