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December 1, 2008

Obama first to implement Till bill

The Clarion-Ledger, 12/1/8 Before Barack Obama left Birmingham in 2004, he insisted on visiting the 16th Street Baptist Church where four youths died in a Ku Klux Klan bombing in 1963. “I walked him over to the church and showed him where the bomb was planted,” said former U.S. Attorney Doug Jones of Birmingham. “That…
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December 1, 2008

Plan puts Barbour, Legislature at odds

The Hattiesburg American Editorial, 12/1/8 Gov. Haley Barbour’s proposed budget for the state’s spending year starting July 1 is advisory. He knows that. The power to tax and spend in Mississippi rests exclusively with the Legislature, which is expected to release the Joint Legislative Budget Committee recommendations in December. The budget won’t be final until…