Madison County supervisors approved a fee-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement for a $70 million manufacturing expansion in Gluckstadt — cutting the new facility’s ordinary property taxes by one-third — and heard the county is on pace to save about $140,000 after canceling its Region 8 mental health contract.
Beverage co-packer SIP Manufacturing is establishing operations in an existing Southaven building, a corporate investment of more than $100 million expected to create 187 jobs over five years, the Mississippi Development Authority announced July 22.
A new legislative task force began its work July 13, taking testimony at the Capitol on how Mississippi should regulate data centers and artificial intelligence.
Mississippi is accepting applications for the new federal Workforce Pell Grant program, which lets Pell-eligible students use federal aid for approved short-term job-training programs beginning July 1.
