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May 31, 2016

Dept of Rehab Services cutting vocational rehab due to budget cuts

Miss. budget cut affects disabled homeowners Officials with the Department of Rehabilitation Services say the agency will cut vocational rehabilitation and aid to disabled homeowners because state money is falling by 12 percent. That’s about $3 million. Vocational Rehabilitation helps find jobs for people who are blind or disabled. It served about 10,000 Mississippians last…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 30, 2016

SALTER: Sen. McCain uses President Obama’s trip to Vietnam to undo Sen. Cochran’s catfish regulation

SID SALTER: McCain continues battle against U.S. catfish Politics is about nothing if not timing, and U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, saw his opportunity and seized upon it while President Barack Obama was on a state visit to Vietnam in recent days. McCain used the president’s visit to Vietnam and Japan as a springboard to…