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March 24, 2009

No tobacco tax agreement as deadline nears

The Clarion-Ledger, 3/24/9 State lawmakers facing a Wednesday deadline are without an agreement on a tobacco tax increase. House and Senate leaders negotiated briefly Monday on raising Mississippi’s 18-cent cigarette tax. They’re looking for ways to balance the state’s budget amid lagging revenues. If they don’t reach a compromise by Wednesday, the tax hike won’t…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 24, 2009

JJ – Ike Brown threatens end to Blue Dog rule in 2007 – Hood, McMillan, Clark, etc.

Ruling lets ‘progressive’ Democrats lead The current debate about U.S. District Judge W. Allen Pepper’s ruling on primaries is about a power transfer. For years, Mississippi had been controlled by Dixiecrats in a one-party structure called Democrats; blacks and poor whites were not allowed to vote. In 1965, the Voting Rights Act empowered the two…