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Stacey Pickering wins Patriot Award

MBJ Staff — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000

State Auditor Stacey Pickering has received the Patriot Award from ESGR, Employer Support Of The Guard and Reserve. The award was presented to Pickering, a chaplain in the Mississippi Air National Guard, for his support of employees who are members of the National Guard and Reserve. Pickering was nominated for the award by Susan Syverson, [...]

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Pickering: Oversight program works, should be expanded

Clay Chandler — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:31:32 +0000

State auditor Stacey Pickering says his office’s Performance Audit Division has done yeoman’s work ensuring companies that receive state assistance to locate or expand here meet the conditions attached to it. That oversight authority, he added, needs to expand to include all public-private economic development projects, though, and not just those created under certain statutes. [...]

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August 6, 2012- Chuck McIntosh

Chuck McIntosh — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 06:01:46 +0000

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Audit office is watchdog on bond money for economic development

Ted Carter — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 06:01:44 +0000

The State of Mississippi gives but can also take away when it comes to handing companies tens of millions of dollars in bond money to build or expand their operations in the state. The money from the Mississippi Economic Development Bond Project comes with conditions and if those conditions are not met, the State insists [...]

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Southaven Mayor Greg Davis to attend its council meeting

Associated Press — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:20:43 +0000

SOUTHAVEN — Embattled Southaven Mayor Greg Davis is to preside over his first city council meeting Tuesday since returning from treatment at an unnamed medical facility. Police Chief Tom Long says that interest in the meeting is running high among local residents. In November, state Auditor Stacey Pickering told Davis to repay the city about [...]

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Receipts show spending at gay sex shops by Southaven mayor

Associated Press — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:43:56 +0000

Receipts show Southaven Mayor Greg Davis, a Republican who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2008 on a family-values platform, charged the city $67 for a purchase at a gay sex shop in Canada. The Mississippi auditor on Nov. 2 demanded Davis pay back more than $170,000 for personal expenses billed to taxpayers. There are no [...]

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FBI investigating Southaven mayor Greg Davis

Associated Press — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:54:14 +0000

JACKSON — The FBI has confirmed that it is investigating the mayor of Mississippi’s third largest city who was already ordered by state officials to pay more than $170,000 for travel, stress counseling and other personal expenses billed to taxpayers. >> SEE MBJ COLUMNIST NANCY ANDERSON’S COLUMN ON DAVIS Southaven Mayor Greg Davis had already [...]

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