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January 21, 2009

Miss. schools trying to trim fat from lean budgets

The Sun Herald, 1/21/9 Barbour has ordered a 3.2 percent budget cut for the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, the formula used to determine how much money each of the state’s 152 districts receives. The governor cut all state agencies’ budgets last week, saying Mississippi’s tax collections will be short between $175 million and $310 million…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
January 21, 2009

Barbour thanks Bush, encourages Obama

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 1/21/9 Around 11 a.m. Tuesday, the halls of the Mississippi Capitol were unusually quiet considering the Legislature was in session. Normally at that time of day, the halls are bustling with lobbyists, legislators and others on state government business. On Tuesday, though, they weren’t. But a little after the top…