Tight budget puts some Mississippi highway projects on hold
The Mississippi Department of Transportation is delaying work on several highway expansion projects because of a tight state budget.
Trump team eyes public asset sales to pay for infrastructure
The Trump administration is eyeing plans to encourage the sale of public assets, such as airports and bridges, to help pay for a $1 trillion overhaul of the nation’s aging infrastructure, an administration official said Wednesday.
Crumbling roads and bridges bring higher taxes and fees
For the first time in nearly 30 years, Tennessee will soon tax motorists more to fill their tanks. So will California, Indiana and Montana.
Miss. Senate panel could consider gas tax increase
A legislative panel will consider whether to increase Mississippi’s gasoline tax and put additional registration fees on vehicles to help pay for highway and bridge repairs.
Legislators talk gas tax increase to repair roads, bridges
The heads of the Mississippi Legislature’s two transportation committees are considering raising the gas tax to maintain highways and bridges.
Upcoming bills aimed at renaming GT highways
Several forthcoming pieces of legislation seek to rename portions of Golden Triangle highways after longtime local legislators.
Under the Capitol dome: Tax fairness could be issue in push for transportation money
Mississippi could get smoother roads, lower taxes and a tax system more tilted to favor the rich than it does today.
Business group seeks $375M-a-year boost to transport funding
JACKSON — Mississippi’s state chamber of commerce said Friday that the state needs to raise another $375 million a year in taxes to fix decaying
House passes another temporary fix to keep highway aid going
States would continue to receive highway and transit aid for another two months under a bill the House passed Tuesday.
Increasing gas tax makes for tough politics, adviser says
Mississippi will need strong bipartisan leadership if officials want to increase the gasoline tax to pay for highways, bridges and other transportation needs, the policy director of a national group called Transportation for America told state business leaders Thursday.
Despite low gas prices, gas tax hike appears unlikely
The new Republican-controlled Congress is facing an old problem: where to find the money for highway and transit programs.
Poll: No agreement on paying for highways
Small wonder Congress has kept federal highway and transit programs teetering on the edge of insolvency for years, unable to find a politically acceptable long-term source of funds. The public can’t make up its mind on how to pay for them either.
Senate passes highway bill, sends it back to House
The Senate voted Tuesday to keep federal highway money flowing to the states into December but only after rejecting the House’s reliance on what lawmakers called a funding “gimmick” and moving to force a post-election debate on whether to raise gasoline taxes.
Transportation leader Foxx pushes for highway funding
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says that during an eight-state bus trip, he’s experiencing what other Americans feel on highways every day.
Report could delay action on road funds until 2016
Proponents of increased Mississippi highway funding aren’t just going to be waiting until 2015.
They’ll probably be waiting until 2016.
Obama seeking $300 billion for roads, railways investment
President Barack Obama said Wednesday he will ask Congress for $300 billion to update aging roads and railways, arguing that the taxpayer investment is a worthy one that will pay dividends by attracting businesses and helping put people to work.
28 percent of Miss. roads in bad shape, group says
A national research group said Monday that 28 percent of Mississippi roads are in poor or mediocre condition and 22 percent of bridges in the state need to be repaired, improved or replaced.
Road improvement effort needs business support
JACKSON — It’s not like 1987, at least not yet. Efforts to raise money to repair and build highways just don’t have the broad push
Business groups cool to raising taxes for roads
JACKSON — Business groups still aren’t ready to raise Mississippi’s taxes to repair and build highways and bridges. In August, Senate Transportation Committee Chairman Willie
Road group proposes $700M in taxes
The leader of a Senate transportation study committee proposes the state should levy $700 million in new taxes to support road maintenance as well as some other non-transportation related projects.