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June 27, 2017

Mississippi Top 50 Award nominations open for year 2 after highly successful event in 2016

The Mississippi Top 50 Award is being created to recognize those that help, by virtue of their position and talent, move the conversation in Mississippi forward. Mississippi is graced with tremendous talent in government, the political sphere, business, media and culture. This is an annual list of the people judged to be the most influential…
Opinion  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
June 22, 2017

KINGFISH: A regulatory agency (Board of Medical Licensure) hired the trade association (MSMA) it regulates to lobby for it

KINGFISH: Mississippi State Medical Association lobbied for Board of Medical Licensure. The Mississippi State Medical Association represented the Mississippi Board of Medical Licensure for two years as a lobbyist.  The Board paid MSMA $30,000 in fees for its services.  The Board is the regulatory agency for physicians in Mississippi. MSMA calls itself “the largest physician…