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November 19, 2008

SALTERBLOG – Barbour calls for cigarette tax hike, but math’s fuzzy on regional average cigarette ta

Barbour calls for cigarette tax hike, but math’s fuzzy on regional average cigarette tax In his otherwise very prudent Executive Budget Recommendation for Fiscal Year 2010, Gov. Haley Barbour calls for a cigarette tax hike of 24 cents per pack which the governor claims would “put Mississippi’s cigarette tax at forty-two cents (.42) per pack,…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
November 19, 2008

Travis Childers (D-MS01) listed as ‘vulnerable’ House seat by Southern Political Report

Dixie’s vulnerable House seats First, it is usually — not always, but usually — the case that the out-of-power gains seats at the first mid-term election of a new president. Moreover, we also know that freshmen members of the US House are at the most vulnerable point in their careers; they haven’t had time to…