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News  |  Courtney Ingle  • 
January 10, 2019

Op-Ed–MS Center for Public Policy: Efficiency through school district consolidation

written by the MS Center for Public Policy School district consolidation in Mississippi can offer both efficiency and savings to taxpayers. It is also one of the trickiest, and most sensitive issues, to local residents, and local lawmakers. Over the past five years, the state legislature has led on the issue with 10 separate consolidation…
News  |  Courtney Ingle  • 
January 10, 2019

Hyde-Smith 116th Congress Committee Assignments Set, Including Appropriations Subcommittee Chairmanship

U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today said she will use her expanded committee assignments in the 116th Congress, including chairmanship of an appropriations subcommittee, to accomplish more for Mississippi. The U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved resolutions confirming committee memberships for the new Congress.  Hyde-Smith retained her memberships on the Senate Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Agriculture,…