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June 6, 2010

SH – Transportation officials spending more on … travel

MDOT officials’ travel expenses up Even as many other government agencies and businesses are cutting back on travel in the weak economy, records show Mississippi’s top four transportation officials are spending more to go to conferences and other shindigs. Mississippi Department of Transportation Director Larry L. “Butch” Brown, Southern District Transportation Commissioner Wayne Brown (no…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
June 6, 2010

BILL MINOR: Texas text book plays down the civil rights struggle

BILL MINOR: Texas texts play down the civil rights struggle JACKSON – Last week’s episode where the Texas Board of Education approved conservative changes to social studies textbooks reminds me of Mississippi’s Ross Barnett and his hilarious “book-burning” binge in the 1960s to root out some textbooks he (or his advisers) considered subversive. The Texas…