JACKSON — Former Tchula Mayor Yvonne R. Brown, the first black Republican female mayor in Mississippi, has died. Officials at Century Funeral Home in Yazoo City confirmed Brown died Monday but had no other details. A funeral service is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at New Jerusalem Church in Jackson. Brown served as Tchula’s mayor [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 18,2012
Tags: Brigham Young University, Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Duke Universit, Gov. Mike Huckabee, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi College, Mitt Romney, President George W. Bush, republican, Secretary of State, Sen. Bob Dole, Soviet, Taylor Stringer
CLINTON — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she wouldn’t want to hold that position again. >> BUSINESS BLOG Former secretary of state, KiOR board member Condoleeza Rice visits Mississippi>> “You should never go home twice,” Rice told reporters at Mississippi College in Clinton. Rice visited the school Tuesday to address benefactors at a [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 17,2012
Tags: abortion, Alabama, Arizona, Diane Derzis, Gov. Phil Bryant, Indiana, Jackson Women's Health Organization, Kansas, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi State Department of Health, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pro Life America Network, republican, Robert McDuff, South Carolina, Terri Herring, The Associated Press, United States Constitution, Utah
JACKSON — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant on Monday signed a law that will put new regulations on the state’s only abortion clinic, starting July 1. The Republican said he’s not bothered by the possibility that the clinic’s owner will sue to try to block the new mandates. “If it closes that clinic, then so be [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 17,2012
Tags: abortion, Arizona, Gov. Phil Bryant, Groundhog Day, Illegal immigration, Legislature, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, republican, Senate, South Carolina, Texas, U.S. Justice Department
JACKSON — The Mississippi Legislature is moving to the end of its 2012 session, and interest groups are being reminded of a universal truth in politics: You can’t always get what you want. People who say the U.S. borders are too porous were upset when an immigration-enforcement died in a Senate committee, after passing the [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: February 26,2012
Tags: Attorney General Jim Hood, Democrat, foreclosure, Geoff Greenwood, GOP, Gov. Phil Bryant, Maine, Mick Bullock, Mississippi Mississippi Business Journal, Missouri, National Mortgage Settlement, republican, robo-signing, Tom Miller, Wisconsin
Mississippi legislators will be the deciders in how to use a $14.2 million direct payment from a $25 billion national mortgage fraud settlement. Attorney General Jim Hood hopes legislators will allocate the money for such things as housing counseling, mortgage-education efforts and for programs to guide victimized homeowners through the settlement process. He concedes, however, [...] [...]
by Marty Wiseman Published: February 12,2012
Tags: and polarize it, Chicago, Democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, freeze it, Have-Nots, Haves, Marty Wiseman, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mitt Romney, New York elite, Newt Gingrich, personalize it, Pick a target, President Barack Obama, republican, Reveille for Radicals, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Saul Alinsky, socialist-free democracy, Washington elite
“Fascinating” is certainly one way to describe Newt Gingrich’s continuous invocation of the name of famed community organizer Saul Alinsky in his effort to hang a derogatory label on President Barack Obama. Given Gingrich’s penchant for shooting from the hip (lip?) when it comes to political rhetoric one or two references to Alinsky could be [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: February 12,2012
Tags: Chancellor Denise Owens, Democrat, Department of Revenue, Derrick Surrette, Ed Morgan, Finance Committee, Gov. Phil Bryant, Haley Barbour, HATTIESBURG, Hinds County Chancery Court, House Ways and Means Chairman, Joe Bloun, Joey Fillingane, Land Appraisal Manual, MAS, Mississippi, Mississippi Association of Supervisors, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Municipal League, Moss Point, Newton, Percy Watson, Politics, republican, Section 42, Sen. Terry Burton, Senate Finance Committee, State Tax Commission, Sumrall, Tommy Robertson
A key hearing this week in Hinds County Chancery Court could go a long way toward changing how tax assessors calculate the tax liability for Section 42 Housing Developments. The Mississippi Association of Supervisors, the Mississippi Municipal League and dozens of towns and cities have sued the Department of Revenue, in an attempt to force [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: February 3,2012
Tags: Democrat, Dolphus Weary, Gov. Phil Bryant, Jackson Mississippi, Johnny Dupree, Mission Mississippi, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Racism, Red Tails, republican
Gov. Phil Bryant was quick to lay blame at the feet of the national and statewide media for Mississippi’s poor race-relations image at the recent Mission Mississippi Governor’s Prayer Luncheon. Bryant said that the national media must have been champing at the bit to see if he, a white Republican, and Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree, [...] [...]
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by Associated Press Published: December 20,2011
Tags: Alabama, british petroleum, Dan Turner, Deepwater Horizon, Democrat, Gov. Phil Bryant, gulf of mexico, JACKSON, Louie Miller, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Development Authority, oil drilling, republican, Ship Island, sierra club
JACKSON — Allowing oil and gas drilling 10 to 12 miles south of Mississippi’s coastline in the Gulf of Mexico is a good idea because it could generate state revenue, Gov. Haley Barbour said Tuesday. The Mississippi Development Authority on Monday published proposed regulations to lease state waters in the Gulf for the drilling. The [...] [...]
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