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September 27, 2007

Katrina: Taylor insurance bill faces House vote

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 9/27/7 Facing powerful opposition by the insurance industry, a bill by Mississippi 4th District U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor to include hurricane coverage in federal flood insurance is slated for a vote in the House today. But Taylor, whose home on the Coast was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and who had his insurance…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 27, 2007

Medicaid seeks deficit appropriation, plus $167 M more next year

The Sun Herald, 9/26/7 The Division of Medicaid will ask Mississippi lawmakers in January for $56 million to keep the agency afloat until the current budget year ends next June. Medicaid Executive Director Robert L. Robinson told the Joint Legislative Budget Committee on Wednesday that the deficit request is the difference between what the agency…