Mississippi Business Journal » William Allain http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Transportation commissioner on lonely campaign for better road maintenance http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/28/transportation-commissioner-on-lonely-campaign-for-better-road-maintenance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=transportation-commissioner-on-lonely-campaign-for-better-road-maintenance http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/28/transportation-commissioner-on-lonely-campaign-for-better-road-maintenance/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:11:13 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=63250 Central District Transportation Commissioner Dick Hall still marvels at what he says was the foresight of Mississippi’s leaders a quarter century ago to fund an ambitious highway construction effort through an 18 cents gas tax levy. The effort required an override of Democratic Gov. William Allain’s veto — an outcome decided by a one-vote margin [...]

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