Bills that would raise the alcohol-by-weight limit in beer in Mississippi from 5 percent to 8 percent have cleared the House and the Senate, clearing the way for whatever differences the two chambers have over the legislation to be ironed out in conference committee. The Senate, by a vote of 37-14, followed the House’s lead and passed [...]
Attorney General Jim Hood entertained questions from reporters in his office Friday afternoon about the Mississippi Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the scores of pardons issued by former Gov. Haley Barbour. He didn’t reveal much beyond what he said in a statement Thursday afternoon. He was disappointed with the ruling. He thinks it sets a [...]
In its list of hand downs Thursday, the Mississippi Supreme Court upheld former Gov. Haley Barbour’s pardons. The Court, split 6-3, ruled that it had no jurisdiction to review Barbour’s decision, because doing so would violate separation of powers. “This case is about whether this Supreme Court has the right, authority, and power to declare [...]
House Bill 1422, which would raise the alcohol-by-weight limit in beer made and sold in Mississippi from 5 percent to 8 percent, had the motion to reconsider taken off it Tuesday afternoon. It now heads to the Senate. The bill cleared the House late last week, but had been held on the motion to reconsider [...]
Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann is batting almost .1000 on his business reform proposals making it out of committee before Tuesday’s deadline. Of Hosemann’s half-dozen or so bills, all but two have already been sent to the House floor. The two that haven’t – a relocation tax credit for businesses that move their headquarters here, [...]
The House of Representatives voted Thursday afternoon to send HB 1422 to the Senate. The bill would raise the alcohol-by-weight content in beer made and sold in Mississippi from 5 percent to 8 percent. The current 5 percent cap is the lowest in the U.S. The bill cleared the House 67-45, with only moderate opposition [...]
The House Public Utilities Committee Wednesday morning tabled HB 825, a bill that has caused quite a bit of hue and cry over the past few days. Most of that has come from members of the Public Service Commission, who were upset that it would strip them of jurisdiction over customer complaints related to AT&T. [...]
The pre-trial phase of the Beef Plant litigation is about to end. The state and the private counsel it hired is suing Georgia-based Facilities Group, in an attempt to recoup the roughly $55 million the state lost when the cull cattle facility in Oakland failed. Facilities Group was brought on board to manage the construction of the plant. [...]
The mixed-use development in Northeast Jackson that has been planned for several years took a giant leap Friday afternoon. Gov. Phil Bryant’s office said in a press release that the state has sold the land where The District at Eastover will sit. It’s the site of the Old Blind School. This jives with what developers [...]
The Mississippi Public Service Commission is not particularly known for agreeing on a whole lot. The opposite of that is true when it comes to House Bill 825. The bill, filed by Rep. Jim Beckett, R-Bruce, has been referred to the Public Utilities Committee, which Beckett chairs. What the bill would do is essentially remove [...]
