Mississippi Business Journal » House of Representatives http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:16:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 MBJ EDITORIAL: Signs point to costly provincialism in demise of Landmark http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/15/mbj-editorial-signs-point-to-costly-provincialism-in-demise-of-landmark/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mbj-editorial-signs-point-to-costly-provincialism-in-demise-of-landmark http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/15/mbj-editorial-signs-point-to-costly-provincialism-in-demise-of-landmark/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2012 06:01:02 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=55734 Sticking it to your neighbor can be a gratifying exercise for some Mississippi legislators — especially when they aren’t personally writing the checks that cover the cost of the sticking. Which brings us to the sticking leaders of the Mississippi House of Representatives gave Jackson and the state’s taxpayers on April 3, the last day [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/15/mbj-editorial-signs-point-to-costly-provincialism-in-demise-of-landmark/feed/ 1 Court tosses lawsuit over size of House http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/12/14/court-tosses-lawsuit-over-size-of-house/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=court-tosses-lawsuit-over-size-of-house http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/12/14/court-tosses-lawsuit-over-size-of-house/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:48:17 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=34496 WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal that calls for greatly increasing the House of Representatives to reduce discrepancies in the population of congressional districts from one state to another. The justices yesterday ordered a lower federal court to dismiss a lawsuit from Mississippi. The suit said House districts vary widely in population, [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/12/14/court-tosses-lawsuit-over-size-of-house/feed/ 0 House proposes another budget plan http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/02/11/house-proposes-another-budget-plan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=house-proposes-another-budget-plan http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/02/11/house-proposes-another-budget-plan/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:37:21 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=19047 JACKSON — The Mississippi House is making another attempt to plug some holes in the current state budget. The House passed a bill yesterday that proposes taking $79 million from financial reserves and putting it into several state programs, with the biggest chunk going to education. The bill passed the Senate in a different form [...]

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