Adam Ganacheau Mississippi Today Rep. Trey Lamar wants to amend the Mississippi Constitution to limit the governor’s power to appointInstitutions of Higher Learning trustees— a response to a controversial chancellor search the IHL conducted at UM last fall. Lamar, a UM alumnus whose mother sits on the IHL, filed two measures that would split IHL […]
Just hours after the House stunned the Capitol on Monday night by rejecting Gov. Phil Bryant’s special session lottery proposal, at least six state representatives sat around a big table at Caet, a wine bar and restaurant in Jackson’s Fondren neighborhood. Earlier in the evening, the lottery legislation had gone down in flames in […]
Gov. Phil Bryant used his friendships with Brexit leaders to help a data firm – whose business practices are being investigated in the United Kingdom – do business with the University of Mississippi. Bryant’s office referred U.K.-based Eldon Insurance Services to the university’s business incubator Insight Park. Eldon, along with a firm called Big Data […]
This article was originally published by Mississippi Today. JACKSON — Presidents from all eight public universities made a sobering plea to lawmakers Monday: For the sake of Mississippi’s future and students paying tuition, we need more money. “We’re getting to the point there’s really a danger if you go beyond this,” said Jeffrey Vitter, chancellor […]
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