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September 11, 2008

Barbour, agency combined Medicaid efforts

The Clarion-Ledger, 9/11/8 Since assuming office in 2004, Gov. Haley Barbour has struggled to fund Medicaid, the government health program for the poor that covers about one in four Mississippians. And every time the governor has faced a funding shortfall, the Bush administration has helped with a solution. That was again the case this week…
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September 11, 2008

Uncle: Robbers target Obama’s family in Kenya

Suspected thieves tried to break into the home of Barack Obama’s elderly step-grandmother in Kenya, the U.S. presidential candidate’s uncle said Thursday. The suspects did not manage to enter the house where Sarah Obama lives in the western Kenya village of Kogelo, according to Said Obama, the candidate’s uncle. He said the thieves apparently used…