Earlier in the week, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Herb Frierson (pictured), R-Poplarville, hastily called a meeting with state agency directors and told the group to prepare to slash their budgets by 7.8 percent across the board. Amile Wilson/File Photo
There's never a slow news week in Jackson, Miss., and last week was no exception. Here are the local stories JFP reporters brought you in case you missed them:
- Public-education advocates are taking House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Herb Frierson, R-Poplarville, to task for using what they call scare tactics to defeat an upcoming statewide ballot referendum on school funding.
- Roy Decker of Duvall Decker discussed plans for The Fondren, in one of Jackson's arts districts, at the weekly Friday Forum at Koinonia Coffee House.
- Joce Pritchett is making history with her run for the office of state auditor, as she is the first openly gay statewide candidate to run in Mississippi.
- While the U.S. Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling was monumental in American legal history and a cause for celebration by LGBT citizens, the reality is that the court ruled on same-sex marriage and nothing more, legal experts say.
- Mississippi’s only abortion clinic, the Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization, has again staved off closure, but the U.S. Supreme Court could soon decide its fate.
- If he could bring Delbert Hosemann and Kenny Stokes together for a common cause, Henry Fuller, 30, thinks he get Hinds County back on track as the District 5 representative on the Hinds County Board of Supervisors.
- Eric Stringfellow's path, from a newspaper reporter in the tiny eastern Illinois town of Danville to candidate for the candidate for Hinds County Board Supervisor, isn't as unlikely as it may seem at first glance.
- Regulators are ordering Mississippi Power Co. to lower its rates later this month and plan for refunds by November for customers who want them.
- Mississippi prison officials have filed notice that they plan to appeal continued federal court oversight of the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility.
- A crowd of more than 50 people gathered on the steps of the Mississippi Capitol this morning, armed with Confederate flags.
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