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September 25, 2013

Mississippi Editorial Roundup – No excuse for DPS’ lack of budget hearing preparation

Mississippi Editorial Roundup – No excuse for DPS’ lack of budget hearing preparation Budget hearings are nothing more than the opening salvo in a protracted negotiation over how to carve up state funds for the next year, and little in this year’s hearings has stood out from years prior. But what did stand out was…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 25, 2013

MS Dem Trust’s ED Brandon Jones gets escorted from H’burg City Hall by Police

Last night, emotions spilled over in the Hattiesburg City Hall building where Mississippi Democratic Trust’s Executive Director (and former state representative and attorney for Johnny Dupree) Brandon Jones got into an altercation with a local Hattiesburg blogger. Given the media hype, two TV stations were there to capture the action as Jones and the blogger…