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February 14, 2014

Rep. Andy Gipson: Criminal Justice Task Force: Tough and Smart on Crime

For months, I’ve had the privilege to serve on a 21-member Mississippi Corrections and Criminal Justice Task Force which has studied and assessed our State’s criminal justice system from the top down. When the Task Force started its work in the summer of 2013, we asked ourselves one question: How can Mississippi taxpayers get more…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
February 14, 2014

Greenwood Commonwealth Op-ed: Public hospital board meetings should be open

Greenwood Commonwealth: Public hospital board meetings should be open One of the glaring and longstanding exemptions in Mississippi’s Open Meetings Law is the blanket one given to publicly owned hospitals. Even though these hospitals are owned by taxpayers and even though the taxpayers are on the hook if they should go sour financially, the public…