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News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
March 2, 2018

Wicker Focuses on Naval Readiness

New Bill Addresses Needed Reforms in the Wake of Last Year’s Fatal Collisions Over the course of about 10 weeks last summer, two of the Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyers collided with two commercial ships in the Pacific.  The first of those collisions involved the USS Fitzgerald off the coast of Japan, taking the lives of…
News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
March 2, 2018

What do lawmakers have left to work on for #mselg 2018?

From Mississippi Matters: These are the bills that are dead and alive in the House and Senate. Legislators have 30 days to make their decisions, with deadline days scattered throughout. Stayin’ alive HB 1554 would provide $1 million in bonds to build a children’s museum in Meridian. Among the other museums built with state money…