Mississippi tax overhaul appears headed to doom in Senate
A bill to overhaul Mississippi’s tax structure faces a critical deadline Tuesday in the state Senate, but it appears unlikely to survive despite a push from Republican Gov. Tate Reeves.
Analysis: Mississippi leaders try big, quick tax changes
When then-Gov. William Winter wanted to make substantial changes to Mississippi’s education system in the early 1980s, he and his staff spent months building support for their proposals.
Bill to phase out state income tax, raise sales tax passes House
A bill that would phase out the state income tax in Mississippi and reduce sales tax on groceries, while raising the general sales taxes, is getting some pushback from local business owners and at least one local legislator who say it would seriously harm retailers.
SDI, others contribute steel roof to Habitat home
Slowly, but surely, the little house on 12th Avenue North is taking shape. The slab has been poured and the house has been framed and wired. The plumbing and exterior siding has been installed.
GOP exploring reasons for gender disparity in new Congress
For congressional Republicans, this month’s elections ushered in the year of the woman — literally.
Congress returns to new dynamic, GOP shutdown threat
Congress returns to a changed political landscape Tuesday as newly-elected lawmakers arrive in Washington, the parties elect new leadership and incumbents square off for one final legislative sprint before House Democrats take power.
Facing pressure, House OKs anti-harassment training
Pressured to respond to burgeoning sexual misconduct allegations, the House easily approved a bipartisan measure Wednesday requiring annual anti-harassment training for lawmakers and aides after a debate that rang with lawmakers’ own accounts of such episodes.
GOP-run House votes to roll back post-2008 financial rules
The Republican-led House approved sweeping legislation Thursday to undo much of former President Barack Obama’s landmark banking law created after the 2008 economic crisis that caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs and homes.
Lawmakers love to praise the folks back home
Mississippi legislators will flail their arms and raise their voices to disagree about substantial issues like education funding and state employees’ job protection. But they generally find bipartisan peace and harmony in the act of commending the folks back home.
Speaker pushes restrictions on Miss. campaign spending
Speaker Philip Gunn took a campaign finance bill by the hand and escorted it through the Mississippi House Wednesday, a year after his top lieutenants mugged a similar measure.
House passes $611 billion defense policy bill by wide margin
The Republican-led House on Friday overwhelmingly backed a $611 billion defense policy bill that rejects a number of President Barack Obama’s key proposals for managing the nation’s vast military enterprise.
Miss. legislative leaders backing off bid to keep contracts secret
Legislative leaders in Mississippi have reversed course, now saying that the Legislature cannot keep its contracts from public view — despite a committee’s earlier vote to keep them secret.
Panel: Public can’t see Miss. House contracts
The Mississippi House Management Committee voted Tuesday that representatives can look at contracts made by the body, but said the documents, other than their cost, must otherwise be kept secret from the public.
House Republicans nominate Ryan as speaker
Speaker Paul Ryan unanimously won his GOP colleagues’ votes on Tuesday for another term at the helm of the House.
MSMS art teacher paints Sistine Chapel mural on ceiling
Angela Jones doesn’t think she can ever move from her dollhouse style home on College Street in Columbus. If she does, she said she would have to take her ceiling with her.
Dems fall short as GOP wins 2 more years of House control
Republicans retained their lock on the House for two more years as GOP candidates triumphed in a checkerboard of districts in Florida, Virginia and Colorado that Democrats had hoped Donald Trump’s divisive comments about women and Hispanics would make their own.
Republicans defend display of Confederate imagery in Capitol
House Republican leaders have blocked a Democratic congressman from Mississippi from offering legislation to ban Confederate imagery from the House side of the Capitol complex.
Gunn attorneys: No need to understand speed-reading of bills
Attorneys for the Mississippi House speaker say it doesn’t matter that bills were read aloud at a superfast pace during a legislative dispute.
House would ban Confederate flags on VA cemetery flagpoles
The House voted on Thursday to ban the display of the Confederate flag on flagpoles at federal veterans’ cemeteries.
Capitol Hill Buzz: House Republicans solve flag fight with coins
House Republicans sidestepped the divisive fight over displays of the Confederate battle flag at the U.S. Capitol with plans to put up state coins instead.