Area cities grapple with regulating food trucks
In the month since Taco Amigo opened in Columbus, it has been bouncing from parking lot to parking lot and business to business serving tacos, enchiladas, tamales and other Mexican cuisine out of a truck.
Administration moves to ease drive-time rules for truckers
Truck driver Lucson Francois was forced to hit the brakes just five minutes from his home in Pennsylvania.
He’d reached the maximum number of hours in a day he’s allowed to be on duty.
Starkville weighing regulations for Airbnb properties
Julie Baca, who lives in Oktibbeha Gardens, wasn’t very familiar with Airbnb.
That changed a few months ago, when the owners of a nearby house began using the online service to regularly rent it out to visitors.
Republicans favor new federal regulation on sports gambling
House Republicans strongly favor new federal regulations on sports gambling after the Supreme Court allowed states to open sports books.
Community banks hopeful as lawmakers target financial rules
Community banks and small businesses are optimistic about changes the Trump administration and Congress have promised to laws that tightened supervision of the banking industry after the 2008 financial crisis.
FDA will require e-cigarettes and contents to be reviewed
The federal government announced sweeping new rules Thursday for electronic cigarettes that will for the first time require the devices and their ingredients to be reviewed, a mandate that could offer protection for consumers and upend a multibillion dollar industry that has gone largely unregulated.
House bill would curb regulation of e-cigarettes, cigars
Vape away.
Increasingly popular e-cigarettes and cigar varieties could be exempt from some government safety regulations if House Republicans have their way.
Bill to tighten regulation on bail bonds heading to gov.
A bill that would increase state regulation of bail bond companies is now in Gov. Phil Bryant’s hands.
Starkville aldermen set downtown parking times
Starkville aldermen unanimously voted last week to set the city’s downtown parking regulations and will now enforce the two-hour-maximum from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays.
Supervisors ditch firm’s subdivision regulations
Oktibbeha County supervisors on Monday ditched a $4,000, 65-page subdivision regulation proposal prepared last year by the Oxford-based planning firm Slaughter and Associates.
AP sources: Task force wants even smaller drones registered
An aviation industry task force is recommending that operators be required to register drones weighing as little as a half a pound, a threshold that could include some remote-controlled toys, industry officials said.
Close calls with drones spur federal registration of owners
Concerned about rising reports of close calls and safety risks involving drones, the government announced Monday it will require many of the increasingly popular unmanned aircraft to be registered.
Supes studying draft of subdivision rules
Oktibbeha County supervisors are hashing through a 65-page proposal that, if enacted, will establish development processes and minimum standards for subdivisions outside of incorporated cities.
Traction building for county subdivision regulations
Supervisors agreed Monday to invite Mike Slaughter, of the Oxford-based urban planning firm Slaughter and Associates, back to the Oktibbeha County board table for discussions on developing and implementing subdivision rules.
IRS loses federal appeal on new rules for tax preparers
The IRS on Tuesday lost a federal appeal in a legal battle over its effort to institute competency exams and other new regulations for as many as 700,000 paid tax preparers.
New regulations sought for child car seats
Child car seats would for the first time have to protect children from death and injury in side-impact crashes under regulations the government is proposing, The Associated Press has learned.