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December 22, 2011

Cochran & Wicker encourage public comment on flood risk

Wicker encourages public comment on flood risk WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker, encouraged community leaders, engineers and people in flood-prone areas to assess and then comment on a new “levee-inclusive” risk assessment process that will replace the “without levee” method criticized by the lawmakers earlier this year. The Federal…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
December 22, 2011

Barbour to return to lobbying firm

Barbour to return to lobbying firm JACKSON — When Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour leaves office Jan. 10, he’ll return to the Washington, D.C., lobbying firm he founded in 1991 That’s according to a person with direct knowledge of the plan who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because Barbour’s plans were…