Results 1 - 20 of 59 in Rienzi, MS
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Failed beef processors plant issue in another campaign
... Agriculture Commissioner Lester Spell and several rural Democratic legislators, including Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, Rep. Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, and Rep. Tommy Reynolds, D-Water Valley. It passed the Legislature with strong bipartisan ...
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Barbour: Miss. agencies might need to trim budgets
... about corporate collections until early January, when the filing extension ends. House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, often disagrees with Barbour on spending and public policy, but in a telephone interview Friday, McCoy said Barbour is "probably ...
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... about corporate collections until early January, when the filing extension ends. House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, often disagrees with Barbour on spending and public policy. But in a telephone interview Friday, McCoy said Barbour is 'probably ...
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Barbour: State agencies might need to trim budgets
... about corporate collections until early January, when the filing extension ends. House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, often disagrees with Barbour on spending and public policy. But in a telephone interview Friday, McCoy said Barbour is "probably ...
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Speaker confident of better IHL funding
By Bobby Harrison Daily Journal Jackson Bureau JACKSON - House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, said Wednesday he is confident that a special committee he named will provide solid recommendations on ways to ...
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Allegations throw IHL and Mississippi State into limbo
... this year the 12-member College Board and Meredith had made a breakthrough on the issue. House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, in his capacity as chair of the powerful Legislative Budget Committee, just recently formed a joint House-Senate committee ...
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Bobby Harrison:Watson/Meredith allegations hamper College Board actions
... this year the 12-member College Board and Meredith had made a breakthrough on the issue. House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, in his capacity as chair of the powerful Legislative Budget Committee, just recently formed a joint House-Senate committee ...
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IHL board to look into allegations out of MSU
... Thomas Meredith and Vance Watson, interim president of Mississippi State University. House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, expressing concern as a Mississippi State graduate and a legislator, said he was informed Friday afternoon "there has been some ...
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Board to look at allegations involving commissioner, MSU interim president
... Thomas Meredith and Vance Watson, interim president of Mississippi State University. House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, a Mississippi State graduate, said, he was informed Friday afternoon "there has been some allegations concerning some work done ...
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HI has received more than $50M in assistance
... lawmakers were weary. "It's like a corn crop," then-Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi said. "There's no need of planting a corn crop unless you know you're going to get more out of it than you put in it." Sen. Mike ...
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Credit GOP with saving state some travel cash
... Republican Party's exposing the approval given, apparently on his own authority, by House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, for Rep. Tyrone Ellis, D-Starkville, to attend the National Democratic Convention with the people of Mississippi paying his way. ...
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Bobby Harrison:McCoy made costly error
... no bones about it - he is a Democrat, a bona fide one. Events have forced him to choose. But at times the 66-year-old Rienzi native acts like the Transportation Committee vice chair or the Ways and Means chairman who was just as willing to override ...
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Bobby Harrison:Prosecutors should move forward or say it's over
... it closed, the blame for the failure was placed on a number of politicians, including House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, Rep. Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, and Ag Commissioner Lester Spell, to name a few. Blame was not placed on Musgrove. ...
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Mississippi still plugging away at poverty to little effect
... offered legislation based on those findings, but most of the bills were unsuccessful. House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, created a select Poverty Committee this year. Its charge was similar to the Delta task force, but applicable to the entire ...
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Officials to pay own convention expenses
... to attend the National Republican Convention in St. Paul, Minn. It begins Sept. 1. House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, said he's not going to the Democrats' convention, which begins Monday. Some estimate it costs participants thousands of dollars ...
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DeSoto seeks location for new jail
... consultant. Supervisors have since hired a $3,000-a-month jail consultant, Irb Benjamin, a former state lawmaker from Rienzi. The board adopted the report, which also contains a controversial proposal for the county to bill cities in the area for ...
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Mississippi still plugging away at poverty
... offered legislation based on those findings, but most of the bills were unsuccessful. House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, created a select Poverty Committee this year. Its charge was similar to the Delta task force, but applicable to the entire ...
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Legislature adjourns special session
... that I have not seen," Bryant said. "I think we can do this if we need to in January." House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, said Barbour and the Senate were unwilling to compromise. Since the special session began, the House has been trying to raise ...
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Medicaid shortfall resolved, Barbour says
... this week as a result of House Democrats objecting to a separate hospital tax plan. But House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, said, 'We're concerned (the new plan) is just the same mule with a different gear on it, and just as much corn will be ...
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... unaware of the developments and referred questions to Barbour's office. House Speaker Billy McCoy, a Democrat from Rienzi who objected to the planned cuts, said Medicaid's action 'verifies and vindicates our opinion all along about whether ...
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