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September 18, 2007

Insurance Commissioner Candidates Spar Over Each Other’s Records

WLOX, 9/18/7 The two men running for Mississippi insurance commissioner say encouraging competition is the key to reducing rate payers’ costs as the state continues its recovery from Hurricane Katrina. But that’s about where the candidates’ similarities end. “Only crazy folks would carve something in stone and not change their mind if the facts change,”…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 18, 2007

Jackson budget: Council acts on difficult plan

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 9/18/7 On the day that by law the city had to have a budget set for fiscal year 2008, the Jackson City Council brushed aside Mayor Frank Melton’s hesitations to come through. After weeks of haggling, Jackson’s $387.7 million budget includes job cuts and rate hikes but no tax increase, and that’s…