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March 18, 2008

Senator backs catfish-origin label bill

The Daily Leader, 3/17/8 District 39 Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith has been at the center of a country of origin catfish labeling bill designed to give consumers more information about what they’re eating. The bill has passed out of Hyde-Smith’s Agriculture Committee and has been sent to the Public Health Committee. “The bill would require restaurants…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 18, 2008

Cig/hospital taxes: It’s not either/or but both

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 3/18/8 Mississippi lawmakers are about to start tossing political footballs back and forth, but citizens shouldn’t participate. Specifically, the game is how to fund Medicaid, and if the state’s cigarette tax or the state’s tax on hospitals should be raised. The game pits Gov. Haley Barbour who has opposed raising the cigarette…