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November 24, 2008

Cigarette tax: Will voters decide?

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 11/23/8 The ongoing battle about whether to raise Mississippi’s 18-cent-per-pack cigarette tax may be fought out in venues other than the state Legislature. Two Mississippians hope to gather enough signatures to place on the ballot a proposal to ensure the state’s tobacco tax always is one half of the national…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
November 24, 2008

HUD OKs port

The Sun Herald, 11/22/8 Officials with the Port of Gulfport hope to start work in December now that the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development has approved the state’s revised plan to restore the port. Gov. Haley Barbour announced Friday that HUD had approved the plan and the Mississippi Development Authority has allocated $570…