JACKSON — The Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation, which played a leading role in petitioning for eminent domain reform, is celebrating the decision by Circuit Court Judge Winston Kidd to allow the eminent domain reform initiative to remain on the Nov. 8 ballot. However, eminent domain supporter Gov. Haley Barbour is not conceding anything yet. Farm [...] [...]
JACKSON — A Hinds County judge is scheduled to hear high-stakes arguments today over a proposed constitutional amendment to prevent governments from taking property for anything but a public project. Circuit Judge Winston Kidd must decide whether the amendment will be put before voters on the Nov. 8 general election ballot. Leland Speed, who is [...] [...]
Eminent domain remains a hotbed of discussion in the Mississippi business community. MBJ staff writers Ted Carter and Stephen McDill interview NFIB state director Ron Aldridge and Parkway Properties chairman and interim MDA director Leland Speed. PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: July 17,2011
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Economic development recruiters don’t use brass knuckles when they fight to get a big employer to come to their state. But they probably would if they could. That is the kind of pier six brawl recruiters walk into at the start of every economic development competition. The last one standing walks away with the deal [...] [...]
JACKSON- MBJ-TV talks with Mississippi Manufacturers Association director Jay Moon about the state of manufacturing in Mississippi. Part 1: “As it relates to a sector of the economy, manufacturing in general, across the United States, is one of the largest users of energy and that’s both natural gas and electric power so we’re very interested [...] [...]
The president of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation says that organization’s advertising campaign aimed at convincing voters to restrict the state’s use of eminent domain will go forward, even though there is now a chance the initiative won’t even be on the November ballot. Leland Speed, the interim executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority, [...] [...]
JACKSON — Ron Aldridge, state director of the National Federation of Independent Business, has released a statement in response to a lawsuit filed by Leland Speed, executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority, to stop a vote on eminent domain. Speed filed the lawsuit as an individual, not as leader of the MDA. Aldridge wrote: [...] [...]
BILOXI — If Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center officials get their wish, there will be no more homes on Oakwood Drive in Biloxi. Several years ago, officials acquired six properties on the end of the street to make room for the convention center expansion and recently they began trying to acquire the remaining 14 [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: June 3,2011
Tags: Bill Luckett, Dave Dennis, Delbert Hosemann, economic development, elections, eminent domain, Haley Barbour, Hudson Holliday, Johnny Dupree, NEWS, Phil Bryant, Politics, Toyota > Speed sues Hosemann to keep eminent domain off ballot
Mississippi Development Authority interim executive director Leland Speed has sued Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, in an attempt to keep the eminent domain petition off November’s ballot. ••• READ THE COMPLETE STORY HERE ••• If you’ll recall, the petition seeks to prevent the taking of private land for private development. It keeps in place the [...] [...]
RIPLEY — Tippah County has shown a profit from land it bought in 2007 in anticipation of Toyota locating the area and highway officials needing to build a bypass for Mississippi Highway 15. “When the county purchased this property in 2007, the board was criticized for paying so much for the land, but the board [...] [...]
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