BILL CRAWFORD: Legislature needs rightsizing too
Republican legislators insist they are making the right moves to “rightsize” state government, which includes shrinking the state budget. If they mean what they say, the Legislature, itself, should be...
View ArticleAnalysis: Can lawmakers ignore law? Attorney general says so
Few political observers think former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove has much chance of winning his lawsuit trying to force the Legislature to spend the full amount demanded by Mississippi’s school funding...
View ArticleCoast lawmaker named Mississippi House Education chairman
A Gulf Coast lawmaker is the new leader of the Mississippi House Education Committee. Republican Richard Bennett of Long Beach was named chairman Friday by House Speaker Philip Gunn. Bennett succeeds...
View ArticleAnalysis: Lawmakers must make decisions on oil spill money
Nearly eight years after an explosion unleashed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi’s elective representatives still must decide how to spend part of the compensation for...
View ArticleROSS REILY — Legislature is intellectually dishonest on education
We keep hearing — over and over and over again — what a wonderful atmosphere there is in Mississippi for business. The Governor, Lt. Governor and Speaker of the House love to talk about how cutting...
View ArticleAnalysis: Senators argue over state tax diversion to cities
Democratic Sen. Hob Bryan of Amory is generally regarded as one of the smartest people in the Mississippi Capitol, even by those who oppose him ideologically and those who roll their eyes at his...
View ArticleLegislation would consolidate administrative functions of agencies
By BOBBY HARRISON / Daily Journal JACKSON – The “back shop,” or administrative functions, for about 20 small state agencies will be centralized under legislation that passed the Senate and is pending...
View ArticleSenate Republicans support school funding set in House bill
The next version of a bill to change Mississippi’s $2 billion-plus education funding formula won’t immediately increase proposed funding levels for schools, but might adjust funding upward sooner than...
View ArticleAG Hood says bills pending in Legislature would protect big companies from...
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says bills remain alive during the 2018 session designed to limit his ability to file lawsuits, primarily against large corporations that he says have harmed the...
View ArticleSenate changes poverty definition in its version of school funding bill
Senate Education Committee members will consider another version of the school funding bill today that changes the calculation of poverty. Sen. Gray Tollison, a Republican from Oxford and the...
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