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December 7, 2009

Barbour trims budget more – Has cut more than $220M to balance ledgers

Barbour trims budget more Has cut more than $220M to balance ledgers Gov. Haley Barbour made another round of painful cuts in state spending on Thursday, this time trimming $54.3 million from the state’s $6billion budget for the 2010 fiscal year, on top of the $170 million in cuts he made in September. Barbour is…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
December 7, 2009

Miss. farmers hope for aid – Too many ‘flat, busted broke’

Farmers hope for aid – Too many ‘flat, busted broke’ Heavy spring rains forced him to replant 100 acres of soybeans at his Sand Hill farm and cost him $3 to $4 a bushel on the price of the beans. That was followed by a summer drought and more rain in the fall that slashed…