It is summertime, which means a time to peer at the political future with a gaze to the political past. The holiday that many consider the unofficial beginning of summer affords the opportunity to shake off the residue of a just-completed school year and to begin contemplating what lies ahead. Considering what the immediate future [...] [...]
JACKSON — Entergy Corp. is warning utility customers not to fall for a scam where people claim President Barack Obama is providing credits or payments toward bills. The company says more than 2,000 customers, mainly in Louisiana but also in Texas, have been affected. No instances have been reported in Mississippi and Arkansas, but Entergy [...] [...]
Want your company to stay private? Congress and the White House have teamed up to help you do just that. In a rare bit of non-partisan unity, Congress ended March with passage of the so-called JOBS Act, or what is officially the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act. The measure won support from both Democrats and [...] [...]
A few weeks ago we marked the second anniversary of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, the comprehensive health care legislation that has come to be called “Obamacare.” This label was intended as derogatory by the Republicans, but has now been embraced by the President’s re-election campaign as a badge of honor. Coinciding with this [...] [...]
It was sort of like the occasional total eclipse of the sun, an event that occurs only rarely and when it does everyone makes it a point to watch because it will be a while before it happens again. Of course I am referring to the Republican Presidential primary that played out in Mississippi during [...] [...]
Preliminary talk coming out of Washington, D.C., has it that the wealthiest of U.S. taxpayers could be hit hard if the tax proposals in President Obama’s 2013 federal budget become law. Then again, there is always wiggle-room for this being softened by eventual bipartisan compromise. Even so, as currently proposed, it would impact the wealthiest [...] [...]
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In this week’s MBJ — High-Tech ‘Garden’ growth: Pine Belt set to harvest high-tech rewards from USM scientific research. By Ted Carter Also in this week’s paper: >> Growing interest: Interest in William Carey’s inaugural Osteopathic class off the chart — by Amy McCullough >> Tax reform stuck in middle of political taffy pull: The [...] [...]
Andrew Mullins, chief of staff to the chancellor and assistant professor of education at the University of Mississippi, was recently invited by the Commission on Presidential Debates to meet in Washington, D.C., with representatives from Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., the University of Denver in Colorado and Centre College [...] [...]
BILOXI — Former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi says he’s supporting fellow Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential race. Lott says that he’s been looking at the GOP field. He thinks Romney can appeal to independents and would have the best chance to win. Finance reports released Oct. 14 show the New Republican [...] [...]
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