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September 28, 2007

Reserves tapped for budget

The Clarion-Ledger, 9/28/7 Jackson council members returned to City Hall Thursday – a day after Mayor Frank Melton’s profanity-laced tirade – and quietly balanced Jackson’s 2007 fiscal budget, erasing a $3 million shortfall with money from the reserve fund. In a 3-2 vote, council members amended an ordinance that dropped the amount of reserves required…
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September 28, 2007

Senate OKs funding to keep SCHIP afloat

The Sun Herald, 9/28/7 The U.S. Senate has voted in favor of adding $35 billion to the beleaguered State Children’s Health Insurance Plan, a decision now facing a promised veto by President Bush. Congress will then have the option of passing a continuing resolution, providing a short-term extension to the plan while the federal government…