NATCHEZ — The city of Natchez has spent three times what it has budgeted for maintenance at the City Auditorium for the fiscal year, and Mayor Butch Brown says more will have to be spent before the end of the year. Brown told the city’s board of aldermen the air conditioning units have for several [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 11,2013
Tags: budget, executive, federal government, governmor, health, health benefits, health care, health care reform, legislation, legislative, legislator, low income, medical, medicine, poor, President, public health, state government
JACKSON — Top Mississippi Republicans say their opposition to Medicaid expansion is getting a boost from an unlikely source — President Barack Obama. The Democratic president released his proposed federal budget yesterday. It includes a one-year delay in reduction of “disproportionate share” Medicaid payments — money hospitals receive for treating large numbers of uninsured patients. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 8,2013
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TUPELO — Despite a temporary reprieve, Doug Metz and his four co-workers still face unemployment. Metz is the air traffic control manager at Tupelo Regional Airport, where the tower is among 149 across the country being closed by the Federal Aviation Administration on June 15. An air traffic controller with more than 30 years of [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 1,2013
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COLUMBUS — Sales tax collections continue to lag behind last year’s revenue, raising questions about whether the city will have to amend its budget or dip into reserves to make up the difference. The Commercial Dispatch reports January revenue was reported at about $626,000, a drop of more than $24,000 from the same period in [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 28,2013
Tags: appropriation, budget, budget cut, federal government, mine, miner, mineral, mineral payment, mining, raw material
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Interior is cutting federal mineral payments to 35 states by about $110 million this fiscal year as part of the automatic federal spending cuts that started this month. Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead announced this week that his state faces the biggest cut — at least $53 million over [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 26,2013
Tags: appropriation, budget, education, funding, lawmaker, legislative, legislator, Legislature, Politics, public education, public school, school, spending, state government
JACKSON — Mississippi Democrats have renewed their calls for more education funding in the state budget. At a meeting billed as a “Democratic Public Hearing,” Rep. Rufus Straughter, D-Belzoni, lamented the consistent gaps between education funding determined by the Mississippi Adequate Education Program and what has been approved by the state legislature. He said that [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 22,2013
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JACKSON — Mississippi lawmakers are giving themselves a bit more wiggle room in writing a budget for the coming year. The Joint Legislative Budget Committee met yesterday and voted to add $97 million to the estimate of how much money the state can spend during fiscal 2014, which starts July 1. The estimate is now [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 15,2013
Tags: appropriation, budget, budget cut, crime, funding, illegal immigrant, Illegal immigration, incarcerate, incarceration, jail, law enforcement, prison
GREENWOOD — Budget cuts at the Bureau of Prisons have put choosing a location for a 1,600-bed minimum-security prison for illegal immigrants on the back burner, according to Mississippi corrections officials. Management and Training Corporation, based in Centerville, Utah, submitted a bid to the federal government last summer to use the former Delta Correctional Facility, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 14,2013
Tags: appropriation, budget, cut, funding, health, health care, lawmaker, legislative, legislator, Legislature, mental health, mentally ill
JACKSON — Several Mississippi House members say they want budget writers to restore more than $6 million that could be cut from the Department of Mental Health for the coming year. The House and Senate face an early April deadline to agree on a $5.5 billion spending plan for all of state government. Fiscal 2014 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 1,2013
Tags: budget, budget cut, community development, downtown, fire, firing, fund, funding, higher education, layoff, postsecondary education, public transit, public transportation, public university, retail, schedule, tourism, tourist, transportation, travel, visitor
STARKVILLE and VICKSBURG — One city is preparing to open a new public transportation system while another city is struggling to keep its system running. A proposed public transportation system linking the entire Starkville community is on track and should help lower traffic congestion, aid economic development efforts and strengthen the bond between Starkville and [...] [...]
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