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January 30, 2009

Education: Hold leadership accountable

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 1/30/9 Mississippi has the legal and moral responsibility for trying to educate 493,302 students in the state’s K-12 public school system in 900 schools in 152 school districts across the state. Toward those efforts, state taxpayers are investing $2.18 billion in state tax revenues and another $20 million in Public School Building…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
January 30, 2009

Windpool keeps on growing

The Clarion-Ledger, 1/29/9 The number of Mississippians receiving coverage from the the state-funded insurer of last resort continues to grow monthly. Some 42,000 people use the windpool and about 800 new policies are added monthly on average, Joe Shumaker, manager of the Mississippi Windstorm Underwriters Association, told the Senate Insurance Committee. “Unfortunately, the windpool is…