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Jackson Airport 'Takeover' Bill Passes to Senate Floor, JMAA Gets Award
The airport "takeover" bill now heads to the Senate floor after the Senate Accountability, Efficiency and Transparency Committee passed Sen. Josh Harkins', R-Flowood, bill to create a nine-member commissioner board …
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Letter: FAA Could Close Jackson Airport During JMAA 'Takeover' Process
The Mississippi Airports Association is taking the side of the Jackson Airport, warning that the FAA could close it during a protracted legal battle.
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City May Annex Airport Land, Collect Rent On It
Two Jackson City Council members today floated proposals to annex land around the Jackson airport and have the City collect rent on it.
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Upgraded 'Fondren Point' Will House Wier Boerner Allin Architecture
Wier Boerner Allin Architecture, which opened in the Fondren Corner building in 2010, is renovating and building out Fondren Point and will be moving its offices there sometime between April …
Bills Would Ban Minors from Mississippi Indoor Tanning Beds
Melanoma was "just a word" to Emily Tandy when she frequented the tanning beds in the Madison, Mississippi, salon where she worked as a teenager.
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Is the Payday Soon Over for Payday Lenders?
De'Keither Stamps says that the more money people spend on payday-loan and check-cashing fees, the less they have to help bolster the City's treasury by purchasing goods and services.
Biz Roundup
JXN Escape Room, Paint Nite and Mississippi Business Engagement Network
Clint Sistrunk and his wife, Paulina Krakowska, were in Poland visiting Krakowska's family in summer 2015 when the couple first discovered "escape rooms," which are live-action games that put a …
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Incentives Sail Through; Anti-LGBT Bills Drop; Groups Call for Foster-Care Funding
Sen. Charles Younger, R-Columbus, introduced a bill that would "clarify that religious leaders are not required to perform same-sex marriages" last week.
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Lumumba, Residents on Airport Grab: ‘We’re Not Falling For It’
Upward of 30 Jacksonians, fresh off work, gathered inside the Chokwe Lumumba Center for Economic Democracy and Development Monday night on west Capitol Street to protest an attempt by state …
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FFT Reinvents, BancorpSouth Renovates and At Home Comes to Jackson
Fondren's First Thursday, a popular monthly event in Jackson, has been reinvented this year to be better than ever before.
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Jackson Airport 'Takeover' Bill Goes Live in Senate, Would Limit Mayor to One Appointment
The Republican governor of Mississippi would get strong control of the Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers Airport under the highly anticipated legislation that finally landed this weekend.
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Stamps: No New Payday Loan, Check Cashing, Liquor, Pawn Stores
A Jackson city councilman wants to put a halt to the expansion of payday loan stores, check cashers and liquor stores in the capital city.
Drug Exec Takes the Fifth on Capitol Hill, Angers Lawmakers
Infuriating members of Congress, a smirking Martin Shkreli took the Fifth at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday when asked about his jacking up of drug prices, then promptly went on …
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Airport 'Takeover' Bill to Be Filed Early This Week
Sen. Josh Harkins, R-Flowood, is touching up a bill that proposes to change the Jackson airport commission structure.
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Uber Safety, Fairness Back Before City Council
When it comes to regulating Uber—and other transportation network companies that might follow—the Jackson City Council is walking a fine line.
