Bill on filling superintendent vacancies heads to governor
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A bill heading to Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant would let school boards statewide appoint replacements for elected superintendents who resign in the next three years. A 2016 state...
View ArticleMississippi governor: Time to consider starting a lottery
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is telling lawmakers it might be time to start a state lottery. The Republican says in his State address...
View ArticlePhil Bryant orders $43 million in budget cuts, including school funding
JACKSON, Mississippi — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is making the third round of spending cuts since the budget year started in July, and the fifth round in the past 14 months. Bryant, a Republican,...
View ArticleMississippi governor sets special session to start June 5
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Republican Gov. Phil Bryant is calling Mississippi legislators into special session starting June 5. He is asking them to set the final...
View ArticleBryant names 4 more members to College Board
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Gov. Phil Bryant is nominating four people to the board that oversees Mississippi’s eight public universities, making him the first governor to appoint all 12 trustees. The...
View ArticleMississippi imposing nation’s toughest 15-week abortion ban
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is poised to sign the nation’s strictest abortion restrictions into law, and the state’s only abortion clinic...
View ArticleBreaking News: Judge temporarily blocks Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a new Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks’ gestation — the most restrictive abortion law in...
View ArticleUS judge extends temporary block on 15-week abortion ban
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A federal judge in Mississippi has extended his temporary block on the most restrictive abortion law in the United States. The Mississippi...
View ArticleMississippi governor orders closure of 83 deficient bridges
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Gov. Phil Bryant is ordering the Mississippi Department of Transportation to close 83 locally maintained bridges that are in bad shape and...
View ArticleGovernor appoints new circuit judge for Hinds County
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Gov. Phil Bryant has appointed a new circuit judge for Mississippi’s largest county. Joseph Anthony Sclafani of Clinton becomes a judge April 23. He will succeed Judge William A....
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