MBJ Editorial: Legislature sets flame to money with handout to zoo

by MBJ Staff

Published: September 23,2011

Tags: Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Golf, Jackson Zoo, Lady Gaga, LeFleur's Bluff, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Children's Museum, Mississippi Museum of Art, Mississippi Museum of Natural History, Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, municipal government, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill, PETA, publicly traded company, real estate, recession, retail, state agency, state government, transportation, travel, unemployment, Weather

Mississippi will be throwing good money after bad when it chucks $1.3 million at the Jackson Zoo. The state Bond Commission last week unanimously approved the sale of $354 million in tax-exempt bonds for which the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum will get $40 million together in bond funding. However, [...]

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