Mayor Johnny Dupree Honors Lab Techs
On Tuesday's, March 20th City Council meeting Mayor Johnny Dupree honored lab techs from the area.
Public Hearing Nixed Due to Back Room Negotiations, Leaving Hippo Supporters Thirsty for Details.
As the Jackie Dole Community Center was filling up with Thirsty Hippo Supporters and media, John Lee and his legal...
Redistricting planner Chris Watson “clonked” by Councilwoman Deborah Delgado over his initial redistricting plan.
Our constitution requires that there be no more than a 10% disparity from the most populous ward to the least...
Hattiesburg City Councilman Dave Ware discusses the proposed night club ordinance on 2.06.12.
In this video with WDAM, Hattiesburg City Councilman Dave Ware discussed the proposed nightclub ordinance. Ware later refused to support...
Hattiesburg city council redistricting public hearing Jackie Dole Community Center May 17th video (PART 2 HD)
This part two begins in the middle of Reverend Ken Fairley's presentation to the council. His plan creates a 3rd...
Reverend Ken Fairley presented his redistricting plan on May 29th, 2012
Reverend Ken Fairley stood before a mostly white audience and gave a heartfelt presentation about the fairness of three minority-majority...
Hattiesburg City Council president Kim Bradley: “$1.3 million dollars is a lot of money.”
Councilwoman Delgado moved to table the vote on the across the board 5% pay raise for city workers, giving the...
Councilman Naylor hammers Supervisor Ron Woullard and other detractors in response to extraneous remarks.
Forrest County Supervisor Rod Woullard took the podium and walked the audience on a good old-fashioned southern stroll of how (TEN...
Redistricting Public Hearing #3 at Danny Hinton Community Center Full Video (HD)
These videos are HD and require a broadband internet connection.
Part 1
This video includes Chris Watkins giving an overview of the...
Bradley to Delgado: You are out of order. Mayor Johnny Dupree: You can suspend the rules
In an unheard move Mayor Johnny Dupree said the council could,"suspend the rules" and allow Delgado to motion to reconsider...
Spending billions, cutting taxes, fear and loathing: The 2022 legislative session wasn’t pretty, but it was historic
During the three-month 2022 legislative session, House Speaker Philip Gunn kept a copy of a January Mississippi Today article that noted the Legislature faced unprecedented tasks and questioned whether it “might have to go...
Governor, other Mississippi officials set to receive large pay raises
The Legislature as it winds up its 2022 session has approved large raises for statewide and other elected officials starting in 2024, after the next election.
Here are salary changes that will start then if...
Lawmakers near finish line on spending unprecedented state and federal funds
Legislators worked late Monday night to fund state government at an unprecedented level and also to spend the bulk of $1.8 billion in federal pandemic stimulus provided to Mississippi by Congress.
The overall state support...
Mississippi’s largest teacher pay raise? It is, according to how ‘largest’ is defined
Gov. Tate Reeves, members of the media and other politicians are touting the $246 million teacher pay raise passed this session of the Mississippi Legislature as the largest in state history.
“The largest teacher and...
Bill would remove racist state song, but creates a mostly white selection committee to replace it
The final debate on the Senate floor about a large tourism spending bill didn’t focus on the millions of dollars earmarked for the state’s visitors bureaus, but over the future of the state song...
Legislators, flush with cash, hope to finish budget early next week
Legislators, working with an unprecedented amount of money thanks to record state tax collections and $1.8 billion in federal coronavirus-relief funds, are slated to return to the state Capitol Monday morning with hopes of...
Senate gives Gunn another chance to extend health care for new moms
Extended Medicaid coverage for new moms is still alive in the state Legislature, but barely. Sen. Kevin Blackwell, R-Southaven, on Tuesday invoked a legislative maneuver that could revive his bill to extend Medicaid coverage...
Mississippi legislators want to save money on prisoners’ health care. Reluctance to expand parole makes that tricky.
Reluctance to expand parole may have led Mississippi legislators to unwittingly sabotage an effort to save state money by shifting some incarcerated people’s health care costs to Medicaid.Â
The state’s prisons are overcrowded, and hundreds...
WOULLARD’S USE OF DISTRICT 4 REC FUNDS EXAMINED BY STATE AUDITOR
A source with first-hand knowledge told HPNM that the Office of the State Auditor began examining District 4 Supervisor Rod Woullard’s use of county funds as early this summer. The investigation involved funds spent...
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