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Coast city must make cuts; facing multi-million-dollar deficit

Associated Press — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:27:32 +0000

GULFPORT — Gulfport city officials are being told they are going to have to make millions of dollars in spending cuts. Gulfport is on track to end this fiscal year with a $1 million deficit that could climb to $4 million in 2013, finance director Mike Necaise said. The problems include revenue shortfalls and increased [...]

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Air Force’s proposed budget means job losses at Keesler, Key

Associated Press — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:05:54 +0000

BILOXI and MERIDIAN — The Air Force’s latest budget proposal would eliminate the 917th Fighter Group, a unit of 409 part-time reservists and 171 full-time technicians, at Barksdale Air Force Base. The cuts would take effect by the end of next year on the unit’s 50th anniversary. The Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse is [...]

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AP analysis shows schools’ reserves, impact of proposed cuts

Associated Press — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:56:25 +0000

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Gov. Phil Bryant wants to cut funding to local public schools in grades kindergarten through 12 by 3.7 percent, an amount equal to almost $150 per student. He wants the districts to make up the reductions by tapping their reserve savings. The state’s 152 districts had more than $450 million in the [...]

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Ingalls could lose two cutters to federal budget cuts

Associated Press — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:09:13 +0000

PASCAGOULA — The U.S. Coast Guard will not get the last two of eight planned national security cutters, under President Barack Obama’s 2013 budget request. The two cutters were not included in the Coast Guard’s five-year capital investment plan, The Mississippi Press reported. The capital investment plan outlines acquisition priorities under the limits set by [...]

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Cartoon- February 20, 2012

Ricky Nobile — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:01:59 +0000

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Mississippi State merges two more units

For the MBJ — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:11:39 +0000

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University’s Entrepreneurship Center and Office of Technology Commercialization now are merged in a move designed to enhance the university’s relationships with business and industry. The new Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer continues efforts to boost efficiency and the land-grant institution’s efforts to capture, protect, manage and accelerate the commercialization of [...]

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Delta Council joins letter to President about deficit reductions

For the MBJ — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:08:23 +0000

STONEVILLE — Delta Council was a co-signer, along with other national and regional commodity organizations, on a letter to President Obama, Majority Leader Reid, and Speaker of the House Boehner expressing strong opposition to any deficit reduction package that would disproportionately impact American agriculture and rural communities. “We are deeply concerned about any requirements that [...]

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PRCC board decides to not raise tuition

Associated Press — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:24:27 +0000

POPLARVILLE — The Board of Trustees has approved a $32.4 million budget that does not raise tuition for students at Pearl River Community College. Full-time, in-state students at PRCC will continue to pay $1,000 per semester in tuition. PRCC raised tuition in 2008 and 2010. The Hattiesburg American reports fall semester enrollment in 2010 set [...]

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Corps: Budget cuts to affect management of lakes

For the MBJ — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:42:56 +0000

AROUND MISSISSIPPI — Budget cuts at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) will mean a reduction in operations and maintenance services that will be provided to public visitors at Corps-operated recreational facilities at Arkabutla, Enid, Grenada and Sardis lakes in North Mississippi. Recreational areas will remain open to the maximum extent possible; however, services [...]

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IHL still looking to cut costs at universities

Associated Press — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:47:29 +0000

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — A state College Board panel will recommend Mississippi’s eight public universities reduce energy consumption 30 percent by 2015. The efficiencies task force’s proposal, which will be presented to the full board when it meets Aug. 18-19, is among the options officials are considering to trim budgets, according to a published report in [...]

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