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FORECLOSURE SETTLEMENT — AG concedes legislators likely to decide where $14.1M goes

Ted Carter — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:01:39 +0000

Mississippi legislators will be the deciders in how to use a $14.2 million direct payment from a $25 billion national mortgage fraud settlement. Attorney General Jim Hood hopes legislators will allocate the money for such things as housing counseling, mortgage-education efforts and for programs to guide victimized homeowners through the settlement process. He concedes, however, [...]

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Center for Public Policy: Roll back retirement benefits for state workers

Ted Carter — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:00:46 +0000

A Mississippi-based organization that advocates limited government has weighed in on the Mississippi Public Employee Personnel System solvency issue with a call for rollbacks in retirement benefits for some state workers. In a legal brief submitted to a study commission created to study possible reform of PERS, the Mississippi Center for Public Policy challenges state [...]

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Supreme Court asks for briefs related to new certificate of need law

Clay Chandler — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 06:00:05 +0000

A month after it took effect, a law designed to streamline the appeals process related to certificates of need is having its constitutionality questioned by the Mississippi Supreme Court. The court entered an order July 28 asking for briefs from Attorney General Jim Hood, the Mississippi Department of Health and Dialysis Solutions, LLC, that will [...]

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FERC: Entergy overcharged customers

Associated Press — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:47:15 +0000

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal regulatory judge has ruled that electric utility Entergy Corp. overcharged customers in four states by selling higher priced power to its own subsidiaries. Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood on Monday announced last week’s ruling by an administrative law judge for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The ruling can be [...]

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AG rules UMC not exempt from CON law

Amy McCullough — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 06:00:29 +0000

But health department may have the ability to make exceptions to the rule Seven Jackson area hospitals urging the Attorney General to withdraw his opinion exempting University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMC) from state certificate of need (CON) law got what they wanted — sort of. In a June 9 decision, Attorney General Jim Hood [...]

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Hood questions transfer of funds by Entergy

Wally Northway — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:03:04 +0000

JACKSON — In the wake of the Vermont Senate’s decision last week to shut down an Entergy Corp.-owned nuclear plant, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is questioning the company’s recent transfer of $1.3 billion from its parent company that oversees operations in Mississippi to its troubled nuclear program. The Vermont Senate, in an unusual move, [...]

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BREAKING — Luckett: I am running for governor

Ross Reily — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:35:37 +0000

In a story that will be published in the Mississippi Business Journal Friday, Clarksdale attorney Bill Luckett confirms that he is going to run for governor in 2011. “I am running,” Luckett told the Mississippi Business Journal Thursday. It’s not that I plan to run or that I am thinking about it. I am running. [...]

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