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January 24, 2009

YP – HB 1383 – Wasn’t the tobacco tax supposed to support Medicaid/public health and not education?

Forgive me if my compass is a bit off, but (courtesy of the YallPolitics Memory Division) wasn’t the whole rationale of raising tobacco taxes because tobacco costs the public health system so much money and therefore the tobacco tax would offset Medicaid expenditures? Now we hear that the House is plotting to use the tobacco…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
January 24, 2009

McLemore won’t seek reelection

McLemore won’t seek reelection Jackson City Council President Leslie Burl McLemore announced this morning that he will not seek reelection to represent Ward 2. McLemore, 68, has served on the council since April 1999. “Working with the city council over the last 10 years has been one of the highlights of my life,” McLemore said…