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February 10, 2009

Barbour encounters unexpected Senate roadblock on Medicaid tax bill

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 2/10/9 Gov. Haley Barbour has had some well-documented victories in the legislative process, and some setbacks as well. But perhaps his biggest defeat of his tenure as governor came last week during a meeting of the Senate Appropriations Committee. The setback was stunning not only because of the health…
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February 10, 2009

Eminent domain: Necessary tool for good

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 2/10/9 Misplaced political hysteria over a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision that broadened the uses for which a government entity can take property for public use has a strange coalition working feverishly to neuter Mississippi’s reasonable, necessary eminent domain laws. Eminent domain recognizes that some “taking” of property is for the public…