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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…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 18, 2008

Barbour OKs illegal-worker bill

The Clarion-Ledger, 3/18/8 Companies in Mississippi soon will be required to use a federal pilot program called eVerify to determine whether potential workers are legal U.S. residents, under a bill Gov. Haley Barbour signed into law Monday. But shortly after he signed off on Senate Bill 2988, Barbour cautioned that the language needs some alterations,…