Madison County
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
WITH A NEW Madison County Board of Supervisors in place and federal funding all but dried up, it looks like widening a portion of Highway 463 is no longer a matter of politics but of money....
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
MADISON COUNTY has too many roads that need repaving and not enough money – at least probably not in this budget year.
The board of supervisors issued $7 million in bonds in...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
MADISON COUNTY might be able to get out of a contribution agreement in November if the Parkway East Public Improvement District (PID) doesn’t come up with about $374,000.
Under...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
MADISON COUNTY might not get a new annex office for its tax officials after all.
A plan to sell the current tax annex, located on Highway 51 in Ridgeland, and buy a Community Trust...
BIDS ARE DUE today on an aerial photography project that will likely save Madison County money.
Madison, Hinds, Rankin and 11 other counties are planning to go in together on the flyover photography, which they’ll use to update...
by KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
OF THE THREE fastest-growing counties in the state, Madison County paid the most for engineering work last year.
Madison, Rankin and DeSoto counties all border metropolitan cities...
by KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
MADISON COUNTY and the city of Madison disagree about whether the county’s 2005 contribution agreements with two public improvement districts (PIDs) are legal.
If the...
Politicians. Predictable as always and the Madison County Board of Supervisors are no different in that respect. You know the formula. Spend, spend, spend. Give sweet deals to the friends. Ignore anyone who questions the divine right of...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
MADISON COUNTY and its economic development authority (MCEDA) have hired the Butler Snow law firm’s government relations arm for a year as MCEDA puts a new long-term economic development...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
THE TWIN CEDARS neighborhood in Madison County will soon have public-access gates at its front and rear entrances.
Madison County supervisors approved plans for the gates last week...
by KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
DESPITE A THREE PERCENT jump in Madison County’s total assessed value this year, supervisors say the coming year’s budget will still be a challenge.
“This...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
A PROPOSED LANDFILL in south Madison County might not be dead, but it appears to be mostly dead for now.
Last week the permit board for the Mississippi Department for Environmental...
Sun Staff Writer
RIDGELAND AND Madison are set to reap the benefits of Madison County’s recent settlement with the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) over the failed Reunion Parkway interchange.
In addition...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
MADISON COUNTY officials have gotten preliminary engineering approval for most of the state-aid road projects on the four-year road plan.
County Engineer Rudy Warnock told the board...
by KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
THE MADISON COUNTY Board of Supervisors has let another developer reduce the minimum square footage in a residential development.
This time, however, it doesn’t appear...
TWO FORMER Madison County supervisors recently confirmed county spending on roads has favored the city of Madison in the past eight years – and one of those supervisors is proud of it.
“Yeah I did a good job, didn’t I...










