Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller told a meeting of the Capital Area Bar Association Tuesday that legislation to implement pay raises for trial and appellate judges will be introduced this session, probably sometime next week.
It’s the second session in a row the legislation has arrived at the Capitol. It died last year. Judges [...]
The good and the bad of the public improvement district movement in Mississippi can be found in Madison County, right next to each other.
Ridgeland’s Colony Park PID has flourished, anchored by Renaissance at Colony Park and its retail and housing units that have turned the Highland Colony Park area into one of Metro Jackson’s most [...]
Mississippi’s economy isn’t terrible.
It isn’t great, either, and it’s going to be a while before it totally rebounds from the last few years.
That was the gist of Thursday morning’s legislative economic briefing by state economist Dr. Darrin Webb and state Treasurer Lynn Fitch.
Webb said the fourth quarter of 2011 was strong, with state revenue up 3.8 [...]
One piece of Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann’s legislative bundle seeks to wring more use out of a jobs tax credit the state makes available to business start-ups in Mississippi.
What the bill would do is allow for an employee “pass-through” of a jobs tax credit that currently benefits only business owners.
“What it does is if [...]
An email from Mississippi Press Association executive director Layne Bruce says that “a long list” of Gov. Haley Barbour’s last-minute pardons were not properly advertised in advance, as required by state law.
That’s the crux of the argument Attorney General Jim Hood made Wednesday before Hinds County Circuit Judge Tomie Green in his attempt to gain an [...]
Former Gov. Haley Barbour has just released a statement after a good 24 hours of sound and fury relating to his last-minute pardon/clemency binge.
Here it is, in full:
Some people have misunderstood the clemency process and think that all or most of the individuals who received clemency from former Gov. Haley Barbour were in jail at [...]
Other than anecdotes about his family, there wasn’t much new in Gov. Phil Bryant’s inaugural address.
Like he has for most of the past four years, Bryant used his platform to talk economic issues: job-creation, education, the high cost of teenage pregnancy and his political pet project, performance-based budgeting.
The energy and healthcare industries, Bryant said, are [...]
Gov.-elect Phil Bryant filled out his list of agency appointments Monday afternoon, a few days after he named Jim Barksdale as interim head of the Mississippi Development Authority.
New faces include Mark Henry at the Department of Employment Security, Rickey Berry at Human Services and Dr. David Dzielak at Medicaid. Robert Latham will lead MEMA, though he [...]
Mississippi has a law on the books that is supposed to educate businesses on the effects of new rules and regulations.
An effort to strengthen that law and to establish a commission whose members would include business owners to review new rules will soon be a part of the 2012 legislative session.
According to the federal Office [...]
Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves revealed his committee assignments Friday morning.
There were no major surprises. Democrats will chair 17 of the Senate’s 39 committees. Of those 17, the most powerful are probably Judiciary B, chaired by Hob Bryan; and Highways and Transportation, chaired by Willie Simmons.
Five Senators in their first terms will serve as chairs. Melanie [...]