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September 20, 2011

State agencies put in 2012 requests seeking up to $1 billion more than last year

From the Clarion Ledger… By the end of the week, state budget writers are likely to hear funding requests for the coming year that total as much as $1 billion more than they had to spend this year. No one expects the state to have the money to cover all of the requests, but agency…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 20, 2011

Bonds approved for civil rights, history museum

From the ClarionLedger… Mississippi moved one step closer to what could be the nation’s first state-sponsored civil rights museum when the Bond Commission on Monday unanimously approved the sale of $354 million in tax-exempt bonds. The Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum will get $40 million together in bond funding. “My…