Better MS Report

From Better Mississippi Report: Nothing like having the luxury of a taxpayer-funded tour around the district during the last week of a campaign to keep a candidate in the public eye. Just ask incumbent Public Service Commissioner Leonard Bentz. Bentz announced today a series of “ratepayer forums,” where Bentz and his staff will meet with [...]

From Better Mississippi Report: As Republican gubernatorial candidate Phil Bryant swings across the state taking credit for this weekend’s sales tax holiday, Better Mississippi Report wants to set the record straight. Other than serving as president of the state Senate, Bryant had NOTHING to do with the legislation. State Rep. Percy Watson, a Democrat from [...]

GOP gubernatorial candidate sent campaign messages to taxpayer-funded school teacher e-mail accounts From Better Mississippi Report: JACKSON (Wednesday, July 6, 2011) – Republican gubernatorial candidate Phil Bryant’s weekly campaign e-mails have appeared unsolicited in teachers’ in-boxes across the Rankin County Public School system, according to documents obtained by Better Mississippi Group. Better Mississippi Group questions [...]

Internet report says Spaghetti Western homage apparently features sadistic slave owner in Mississippi From Better Mississippi Report: JACKSON (Tuesday, June 21, 2011) – More details have emerged about writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s new film that is set to begin shooting later this year – a Spaghetti Western homage set in the slave days of the Deep [...]

Report says Quentin Tarantino’s new film set at least partly in the state From Better Mississippi Report JACKSON (Thursday, June 9, 2011) – Film director Quentin Tarantino is expected to shoot his new film on location in Europe – but it looks like it will have distinctly Mississippi connections. But wait. Hold on. We aren’t [...]

McCoy’s decision makes race for speaker in January 2012 wide open From Better Mississippi Report: JACKSON (Wednesday, May 25, 2011) – House Speaker Billy McCoy of Rienzi, who has led the 122-member state House for eight years, will not seek re-election to the Legislature this fall. McCoy’s decision caps one of the most progressive tenures [...]

Panel says lawmakers should redraw disteict next year From Better Mississippi Report JACKSON (Monday, May 16, 2011) – A three-judge panel ruled today that the 2011 legislative elections will take place in November using EXISTING districts. The order comes less than a week after the panel heard testimony during an all-day hearing. It also rejected [...]

First-term representative talks about his accomplishments as a member of the state House From Better Mississippi Report JACKSON – Sate Rep. Brandon Jones has done a great job keeping in touch with his constituents in Jackson County – continuing his efforts with an impressive newsletter which many people received by U.S. Postal Service mail today [...]

Court order supports fair redistricting plan the state House approved From Better Mississippi Report JACKSON (Friday, April 29, 2011) – A three-judge federal court panel gave state legislators until June 1 to pass and obtain U.S. Justice Department approval of a new redistricting plan for the 2011 legislative elections in November. If lawmakers fail, the [...]

Governor has less than a year left in final term as Mississippi’s chief executive From the Better Mississippi Report JACKSON (Monday, April 25, 2011) – Here’s a surprise: Gov. Haley Barbour will not run for president next year. We say it’s a surprise because the governor has been pre-occupied for months with building momentum and [...]