Mississippi on Thursday July 02, 2009

MS: Another special session looming for unfunded utility regulators
By Bobby Harrison, The Daily Journal (Tupelo)
Even though a special session ended at midnight Tuesday, there was talk only a few hours later that another one would be coming soon.
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MS: Uninsured health-care ranks rising in Miss.
By Jerry Mitchell, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)
In a state the federal government already rates weak in health care, Mississippians are losing health insurance and choosing to either forego treatment or join the uninsured filling waiting rooms at subsidized clinics and emergency rooms.
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Stimulus eases community college troubles
By Kimberly Leonard, Special to Stateline.org
States are digging into their federal stimulus money to help finance community colleges, where rising tuition, soaring enrollment and budget cuts threaten to shut students out of the system.
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Weekly wrap: Report questions states' use of stimulus road funds
By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer
States are spending too much stimulus money on new road construction and not enough on public transit projects, a national advocacy group claims in a report issued Monday (June 29). Meanwhile, Michigan and California consider teaming up to solve their prison problems and North Carolina and Rhode Island face off with Amazon.com over taxes.
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MS: PSC minus spending plan
By Elizabeth Crisp, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)
Disagreement over the size of the Public Service Commission's staff left it as the only state agency unfunded as the fiscal year began Wednesday.
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MS: Court costs increase, thanks to Legislature
By Lucy Weber, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)
Madison County Justice Court and local municipal courts, along with others in the state, started collecting a few dollars more in assessments Wednesday.
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MS: Miss. still fattest state in America
By The Associated Press, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)
WASHINGTON — Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers.
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US: Coming to 25 states -- higher taxes
By Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor
More than half of US states are responding to budget challenges with an answer that's often unpopular with their residents: tax hikes.
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US: State budget woes worsen as deadline arrives
By Deborah Tedford, National Public Radio (Audio)
States across the country got their 2010 fiscal years off to a bumpy start Wednesday, as some faced shutdowns with their budgets in limbo and others braced for deep cuts after passing bare-bones plans to deal with recession-driven revenue shortfalls.
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US: Mississippi tops obesity rankings; Colorado is leanest state
By The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- Mississippi remains at the top of the list in this year's national annual obesity rankings, with Alabama coming in second. Outside of fairly lean Colorado, there's little good news.
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CA: California fails to break impasse as states struggle to meet budget deadlines
By Jesse McKinley, The New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — With budget deadlines missed and coffers running empty on Wednesday, officials in California extended state employee furloughs, prepared i.o.u.'s and swapped blame as a gloomy new fiscal year dawned.
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