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July 12, 2009

General Hood: Channeling the ‘Kingfish’ Huey Long?

General Hood: Channeling the ‘Kingfish’ Huey Long? Senate Republicans and Gov. Haley Barbour oppose that shift in power and want to maintain the legal wall of separation that the Legislature put between the elected PSC and the appointed Public Utilities Staff after an elected commissioner was convicted of taking bribes from the companies he regulated…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
July 12, 2009

Reapportionment 201

Reapportionment 201 These questions are answered in part by an examination of census objectives. Additionally, from the numbers gleaned from the decennial census, a different standard is applied for congressional reapportionment. In Mississippi, we have 1,873,740 registered voters out of 2,910,540 residents, 26.1 percent of whom are under the age of 18, and thus unable,…