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 [...]
University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson has just announced that it will reduce its workforce by 2 percent, by eliminating 90 vacant positions and laying off 115 employees.
That’s bad news for one of the state’s largest employers.
Here’s the full press release:
The University of Mississippi Medical Center is reducing the size of its workforce by [...]
Gov.-elect Phil Bryant will make what a press release called a “major agency appointment” Wednesday afternoon at a 2 p.m. news conference.
I’ve done some calling around since Tuesday, when the release was sent, and here’s what I’ve learned:
Two sources have said the new executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority will be named at the news conference. [...]
The governor’s office and both chambers of the Mississippi Legislature will have entirely new leadership when the 2012 session starts at noon Jan. 3.
And each of the new faces has roots in the Jackson Metro area.
Gov.-elect Phil Bryant and Lt. Gov.-elect Tate Reeves are from Rankin County. Rep. Phillip Gunn, a Republican whose district includes [...]
The Delta Health Alliance has paid an average of $272,000 the past four years for an administrative contract with the Delta Council.
Those figures are spelled out in DHA tax returns.
In 2008, DHA paid Delta Council $293,630 for administrative services. In 2009 and 2010, that number dropped to $275,000. For the fiscal year that ended June [...]
Mentioned throughout the court file of James Hahn’s wrongful termination lawsuit against the Delta Health Alliance is a possible grant from DHA to University of Mississippi Medical Center to help the hospital pay for implementing electronic health records.
The hospital’s move toward EHRs is part of the mandates spelled out in the Patient Protection and Affordable [...]