Mississippi Business Journal » “government waste” http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:27:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The fiscal debacle: Government working as was truly intended? http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/11/the-fiscal-debacle-government-working-as-was-truly-intended/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-fiscal-debacle-government-working-as-was-truly-intended http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/11/the-fiscal-debacle-government-working-as-was-truly-intended/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:06:03 +0000 Marty Wiseman http://msbusiness.com/?p=68077 Is the fiscal cliff scenario a failure of our system of government or government functioning as intended? One need not venture far these days to hear a fairly common assessment of the current state of affairs pertaining to government in the nation’s capital. Usually, references are made to a totally broken governing mechanism. Furthermore, the [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/11/the-fiscal-debacle-government-working-as-was-truly-intended/feed/ 0 Hinds County “Defiant… Unresponsive” http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/03/14/hinds-county-defiant-unresponsive/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hinds-county-defiant-unresponsive http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/03/14/hinds-county-defiant-unresponsive/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:40:26 +0000 Stephen McDill http://msbusiness.com/?p=38269 JACKSON- Mississippi Center for Public Policy president Forest Thigpen explains his new project SeeTheSpending.org, a website that tracks hundreds of budgets in state and county government. He says that while most of Mississippi’s 82 counties have responded to public records requests, he’s still waiting to hear from Jackson.

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