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January 22, 2008

Barbour stresses budget trimming

The Sun Herald, 1/22/8 Pledging to fully fund education and continue South Mississippi’s rebuilding, Gov. Haley Barbour at the same time urged lawmakers to be thrifty as the state’s revenue appears to be slowing down and the U.S. economy is softening. The governor, in a packed chamber of the Mississippi House of Representatives, gave the…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
January 22, 2008

Legislature ’08: House leaders reflect warfare

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 1/22/8 If average Mississippians thought they had detected an increased level of partisanship in the Legislature over the past four years, they probably ain’t seen nothin’ yet! The “other shoe,” so to speak, has been waiting to drop since House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, was re-elected to the leadership position by the…