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August 14, 2008

2 beef plant figures plead on attempts to influence

The Clarion-Ledger, 8/14/8 Two Georgia businessmen have pleaded guilty in federal court in Oxford of trying to influence a public official over the failed Mississippi beef plant. The beef plant in Oakland cost taxpayers $55 million. Nixon Cawood, president and chief operating officer of Smyrna, Ga.-based The Facility Group, pleaded guilty to providing a $25,000…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
August 14, 2008

Speaker McCoy against fall special session to vote on tobacco tax

The Clarion-Ledger, 8/14/8 House Speaker Billy McCoy on Wednesday resisted the idea of a special legislative session this fall to hike cigarette taxes, and said lawmakers can approve the measure early next year at less expense to taxpayers. But even if the matter is postponed until the next regular session begins in January, a debate…