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November 30, 2009

SALTER – All eyes now on the legislative budget

SALTER – All eyes now on the legislative budget he Legislative Black Caucus came out against Barbour’s university merger plan even before it hit the table officially. House Universities and Colleges Committee Chairman Kelvin Buck, D-Holly Springs, pronounced that portion of the budget plan dead-on-arrival at his committee. The state employee union’s leader has already…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
November 30, 2009

Miss. officials: No to mergers

Miss. officials: No to mergers “Some of the things just don’t work,” Rep. Cecil Brown, D-Jackson, said in a meeting with Sen. Terry Burton, R-Newton, at The Clarion-Ledger’s editorial board. Responding to Mississippi’s continued decline in revenues, Barbour has recommended merging the state’s eight public universities into five, consolidating public school districts, closing mental health…