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June 25, 2012

AP News Analysis: Amending constitution not easy

News Analysis: Amending constitution not easy It’s not easy to get a proposed constitutional amendment on the Mississippi ballot, and that might be a good thing. Some initiatives attempted the past two decades weren’t exactly the types of high-minded issues many people would expect to see embroidered into the fabric of state governance. State recognition…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
June 25, 2012

Barbour – GOP platform should include Education Department abolishment

Barbour – GOP platform should include Education Department abolishment Last week, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour offered some thoughts on the oft-debated question in Republican platforms: to include abolishing the Department of Education. “Being for getting rid of the department certainly doesn’t mean you want to get rid of public education,” Barbour, a former Republican…