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March 26, 2012

AP – Lawmakers to follow ’98 percent rule’

Lawmakers to follow ’98 percent rule’ Mississippi lawmakers say they intend to follow their own “98 percent rule” this session as they write a $5.6 billion state budget. That shouldn’t sound like a big deal, but given their actions of the past few years, it is. A law enacted in the early 1990s says only…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 26, 2012

Hattiesburg American – Contract will intensify ‘sunshine’ effort

Contract will intensify ‘sunshine’ effort In a political environment that was already hostile for Democratic Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, the veteran AG apparently decided to – as the old Holmes Brothers blues song intones – “run through Hell in gasoline drawers.” To that end, Hood has hired his former boss and a former state…