Attorney General Jim Hood’s recent run of bad luck with the Mississippi Supreme Court continued Thursday afternoon. The court ruled against Hood in separate fees cases related to litigation involving MCI and Microsoft. In both instances, the court found that the law requires that any outside counsel Hood hires must be paid from his contingent fund [...]
Mississippi is one of only two states to never elect a female member of its congressional delegation. That was one of the anecdotes Lydia Quarles and Pam Johnson presented Monday at the lunch meeting of the Stennis Capitol Corps. The two were going over the details of Ready to Run Mississippi, an initiative designed to get [...]
VICKSBURG – It was a period of numerical reflection Friday morning here on the banks of the Mississippi River. It was exactly one year ago that the Mississippi crested at 57.1 feet, breaking the record set in 1927 (56.2 feet) and cementing the 2011 flood as modern history’s highwater mark. Just west of the flood [...]
The Mississippi Supreme Court has denied Attorney General Jim Hood’s motion asking justices to reconsider their decison to uphold the pardons of former Gov. Haley Barbour. The Court, split 6-3, ruled in early March that it had no jurisdiction to review Barbour’s decision, because doing so would violate separation of powers. The vote denying Hood’s [...]
I’ve written recently about the success a few Mississippi small businesses and artists have had with online fundraising tools like Kickstarter. Not all campaigns are as successful as those, though, and one example of that comes from a documentary David Rae Morris, Willie’s boy, wanted to do about Yazoo City. “Yazoo Revisited” would have examined [...]
The litigation involving Jackson-based Eaton Aerospace and a competitor the company sued for allegedly stealing trade secrets got even more interesting Thursday. First, a little background: Several years ago, Eaton sued North Carolina-based Frisby Aerospace, claiming some of Eaton’s trade secrets had been acquired via former employees who had taken jobs at Frisby. In early [...]
The Mississippi Farm Bureau joined 13 sister state organizations earlier this week in filing a motion to intervene in Gulf Restoration Network, et al. v. Jackson, et al. Gulf Restoration is asking the Environmental Protection Agency to either adopt uniform nutrient water quality standards for all U.S. waters or to adopt similar measures for states [...]
Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann would like the Department of Justice employee who called Mississippi’s pursuit of a voter ID statute “disgusting and shameful” removed from any involvement in the state’s application to implement the new law. Stefanie Gyamfi, who works in DOJ’s Voting Rights Division, made the comments on Facebook. Hosemann said at a [...]
Each session, Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann submits a bundle of legislative proposals that seek to reform one way or another the state’s business laws. The session that ended Thursday was no exception. Hosemann had some success — bills that would do everything from change the valuation process for public improvement districts to creating a [...]
Mississippi Power Co.’s Kemper County plant isn’t the only coal-fired generation facility the Sierra Club has fought recently. In Indiana, Duke Energy is building an integrated gasification combined cycle plant that will use bituminous coal, which sits a little deeper in the ground than lignite, which is abundant in East Mississippi and will serve as [...]
