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Motorists might pay more at the gas pump

Associated Press — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:48:12 +0000

JACKSON — A top lawmaker says Mississippi needs to increase its gasoline tax to pay for highway and bridge maintenance, but he concedes there’s little chance of it happening this year. House Transportation Committee Chairman Robert Johnson said 40 percent of Mississippi’s major roads and 28 percent of its highways are in poor or mediocre [...]

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Council rejects mayor’s $10M bond issue for streets

Associated Press — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:44:20 +0000

JACKSON — The Jackson City Council has overwhelmingly rejected a $10-million bond issue for street repaving, a stinging rebuke of Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr.’s agenda in the waning months of his current term. Council members gave varying reasons for the measure’s defeat, but Budget Committee chairwoman Margaret Barrett-Simon blamed it on an unwillingness among members [...]

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Johnson wants to use bond issue to fund $10M in street paving

Associated Press — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:31:51 +0000

JACKSON — Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. says he will use funds from a bond issue to pay for a $10 million street paving project in the Capital City. Johnson tells The Clarion-Ledger the city council would have to sign off on the proposal. The city has devoted huge sums of money to fixing streets. Jackson [...]

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County taking out loan to pay for road projects, equipment

Associated Press — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:08:32 +0000

WASHINGTON COUNTY — Washington County will borrow $1.5 million to repair local roads and buy road-working equipment, The Delta Democrat Times reports. Supervisor Troy Wesley Sr. says board members did a tour of the county roads about three or four months ago and assessed what roads were in bad shape. Wesley says the county expects [...]

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Project to make Capitol Street two-way to begin this year

Associated Press — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:56:05 +0000

JACKSON — A project to turn the main thoroughfare in downtown Jackson into a two-way street is expected to start by year’s end. The city must have state approval for construction plans on the Capitol Street project by Sept. 30. Work needs to begin no later than January, or it will miss out on millions [...]

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Former MDOT executive director Brown wins mayoral runoff

Associated Press — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:02:58 +0000

NATCHEZ — Larry L. Brown has won the Democratic primary for Natchez mayor, defeating Phillip West by 541 votes in the runoff. Brown, former executive director of the Mississippi Department of Transportation, received 56 percent of the vote, or 2,696 votes in yesterday’s runoff election. West had 44 percent of the vote, or 2,155 votes. [...]

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After 114 years, researchers finally complete soil study of entire state

Associated Press — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:01:58 +0000

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — After 114 years, Mississippi State University and other agencies have completed an acre-by-acre map of Mississippi’s soils — more than 30 million acres. It’s part of the National Cooperative Soil Survey begun in 1899 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Resources Conservation Service. “To map over 30 million acres is a [...]

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County leaders want to know why highway project is delayed

Associated Press — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:25:35 +0000

PEAR RIVER COUNTY — State transportation officials are to discuss the $10 million four-laning of U.S. 11 in a meeting this week with Pearl River County leaders. The Mississippi Department of Transportation has announced that the project will be delayed, raising questions from local officials. County Engineer Les Dungan tells the Picayune Item the project [...]

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Supervisors approve update to county’s hazard-mitigation plan

Associated Press — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:08:21 +0000

WIGGINS — The Stone County Board of Supervisors has approved an update of the county’s hazard-mitigation plan. Emergency management director Raven James tells The Sun Herald FEMA requires the county to have the updated five-year plan in order to receive funding in the case of a natural disaster or emergency. James says projects outlined in [...]

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MDOT awards I-10 project to Huey Stockstill

MBJ Staff — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:11:35 +0000

MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — The Mississippi Department of Transportation will start work on a project to resurface 13 miles of Interstate 10 in Hancock and Harrison counties. The $14.5 million project was awarded to Huey Stockstill Inc. of Picayune. Southern District transportation commissioner Tom King says the project starts at Diamondhead and extends to the [...]

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