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March 4, 2009

PEER: Highways not being built for entire state’s needs

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 3/4/9 Mississippi’s highways have not been built lately with statewide needs in mind, but by regional priorities that skew and sap statewide goals, a state watchdog agency reports. It also predicts that, given the state’s inadequate funding, the Vision 21 highway program the Legislature mandated in 2002 – including Highways…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 4, 2009

Stimulus resolution still alive

The Clarion-Ledger, 3/4/9 State lawmakers are expected to continue trying today to bypass Gov. Haley Barbour to accept all of the $2.8 billion in federal stimulus dollars available to Mississippi. House Concurrent Resolution 64 certifies the state’s intention to request and use all of the money, with or without Barbour’s approval. It cleared the House…