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Senators lobbying House to pass BP oil spill bill

MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — U.S. Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are hoping the House of Representatives will look favorably on “overwhelming” Senate support for legislation that will direct fines from the BP oil spill to Mississippi and other Gulf Coast states. The Senate yesterday approved (74-22) the Moving Ahead for Progress in [...] [...]

Santorum, congressional incumbents win primaries

by Associated Press Published: March 14,2012

Tags: Congress, elections, executive branch, lawmakers, legislative branch, President, primaries, voters, votes, Voting

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Rick Santorum won Republican presidential primaries in Alabama and Mississippi but he didn’t gain any ground in the race for delegates against frontrunner Mitt Romney. Romney wiped out Santorum’s gains by winning caucuses in Hawaii and American Samoa Tuesday. For the day, Romney added at least 41 delegates and Santorum won at [...] [...]

Jobless rate dips in November

Mississippi’s unemployment rate dipped to 10.5 in November, as some people gave up looking for jobs. That’s down from 10.6 percent in October, but above the 10.2 percent rate in November 2010. Mississippi remains tied for the third-highest jobless rate among the states. Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show the number of unemployed people fell [...] [...]

Burnham to propose new law for failing school districts

JACKSON — Mississippi State Superintendent Tom Burnham said yesterday he would propose a law to allow the state to either forcibly merge or require new elections in failing school districts, because the current reform system does not work. “We will bring forward legislation this year to end conservatorship,” Burnham said at an orientation for newly [...] [...]

Navy christens submarine Mississippi in Groton

by Associated Press Published: December 5,2011

Tags: Anchors Aweigh, Congress, Connecticut, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Navy, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus

GROTON, Conn. — With the smash of a champagne bottle, the Navy christened its newest submarine on Saturday as the Mississippi, the ninth member of a new generation of attack subs hailed as the world’s most complex pieces of machinery. A Navy band struck up “Anchors Aweigh” as the submarine’s sponsor, a deputy assistant Navy [...] [...]

State’s GOP want judge to draw redistricting map

by Associated Press Published: September 27,2011

Tags: Congress, elections, federal government, government, Politics, redistricting, state government, voters, Voting

JACKSON — The Mississippi Republican Party is asking federal judges to redraw the state’s four U.S. House districts before the 2012 elections. In court papers filed this month, the party said there’s “no likelihood” that legislators will handle congressional redistricting on time. The next regular legislative session begins Jan. 3. That’s 10 days before the [...] [...]

Cellular South announces change to C Spire Wireless

On Monday, Cellular South will get a new name — C Spire Wireless — and the company says it will also beome the nation’s first wireless provider to introduce personalized wireless services. “We have entered a new era in wireless – an era centered on broadband networks, mobile computing devices and now personalized services. Completing [...] [...]

MBJ Editorial: Ayers family worked too hard to see neglect at this level (access required)

Never in his wildest dreams  would Jake Ayers had believed, in 1975, what has become of the Mississippi college desegregation lawsuit, known simply as “Ayers.” When all was said and done in 2004, Mississippi education officials said they could get to work enforcing the $503 million settlement designed to correct racist neglect of Jackson State, [...] [...]

MBJ Editorial: Jobs and eminent domain … letting fear strike us out (access required)

Economic development recruiters don’t use brass knuckles when they fight to get a big employer to come to their state. But they probably would if they could. That is the kind of pier six brawl recruiters walk into at the start of every economic development competition. The last one standing walks away with the deal [...] [...]

University leaders: Federal DATA Act redundant, expensive (access required)

by Clay Chandler Published: July 4,2011

Tags: Congress, DATA Act, federal spending

A bill making its way through Congress would digitize and consolidate the system used to track federal spending, but the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities says it duplicates existing systems and adds another layer of expense to critical university research projects. The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act — or DATA Act — would [...] [...]

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