Bryant, Dennis agree: No eminent domain for private use
If Dave Dennis and Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant are going to butt heads over an issue in their bids to be the Republican nominee for governor in 2011, they’ll have to find something other than the use of...
View ArticleGov. candidates of one mind on eminent domain (Update)
Magnolia Marketplace is not finding much disagreement among the 2011 candidates for governor on the issue of employing eminent domain for private economic development. Two of the three Republicans who...
View ArticleWaide will not seek office in 2011 (Updated)
Today’s a big day for the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation. There’s an election to see who will succeed David Waide as president, and there’s the speculation about Waide’s political future....
View ArticleHyde-Smith’s defection a step toward run for ag commish?
New Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Brookhaven cemented her status as one of Magnolia Marketplace’s favorite legislators in the 2009 session. It was during the Senate’s debate before the vote on...
View ArticleSpeed sues Hosemann to keep eminent domain off ballot (Updated)
Mississippi Development Authority interim executive director Leland Speed has sued Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, in an attempt to keep the eminent domain petition off November’s ballot. If...
View ArticleHyundai in Mississippi — real deal, or eminent domain rallying cry?
Jackson television station WLBT’s Bert Case may have stumbled upon a major scoop Thursday during the course of an on-camera interview with MDA interim executive director Leland Speed. Case was asking...
View ArticleEminent domain bridges the great political divide (Updated)
We might have finally found something Mississippians of every political persuasion can agree on: The use of eminent domain for private economic development is a bad, bad idea. Just before 11 Tuesday...
View ArticleEminent domain initiative roars to passage, but nothing is settled
We might have finally found something Mississippians of every political persuasion can agree on: The use of eminent domain for private economic development is a bad idea. With 97 percent of precincts...
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