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February 11, 2009

City workers get extra paid holiday

The Clarion-Ledger, 2/11/9 Jackson city workers can thank the local firefighters’ union for another paid vacation day – and city taxpayers for footing the $170,000 bill. An almost-overlooked clause in the firefighters’ union contract led the Jackson City Council on Tuesday to make Presidents Day a new city holiday. The union contract, approved several years…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
February 11, 2009

Corps proposes Coast buyouts

The Clarion-Ledger, 2/11/9 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is proposing to spend about $1.2 billion on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast to buy some 2,000 seaside properties, relocate a small town’s public buildings and restore hurricane-damaged wetlands and beaches. A draft proposal released Tuesday follows in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when Bay St. Louis, Waveland…