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January 27, 2009

Medicaid debate will heat up again before this session ends

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 1/27/9 It seems like a million years ago – even thought it was only last summer – when the Legislature was in special session debating how to fund a $90 million shortfall in Medicaid. Since that special session, an economic slump that some pessimistically say may be historic in…
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January 27, 2009

Tuition cap: Lack of stable funding critical

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 1/27/9 Since 2000, the average tuition at Mississippi’s eight universities has increased from an annual rate of $2,864 to the current $4,742. That fact doesn’t take into account the fact that a sputtering economy is dragging down Mississippi’s current revenue collections. Gov. Haley Barbour has been forced to make two rounds of…