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July 18, 2007

Barbour: Japan trip harbinger of more new jobs

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 7/18/7 Gov. Haley Barbour just returned from a trip to Nagoya, Japan, where he and a group of state officials, business leaders and utility company executives courted about 50 automotive suppliers. Those efforts could well spread the Toyota euphoria in Pontotoc, Union and Lee counties to other communities across the state. Those…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
July 18, 2007

Eaves heats up rhetoric in gubernatorial race

The Clarion-Ledger, 7/18/7 Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Arthur Eaves Jr. on Tuesday leveled his harshest criticism of Gov. Haley Barbour to date, saying the incumbent Republican governor “typifies and represents the culture of political corruption.” A Barbour campaign spokesman said those and other statements Eaves made at a Clarion-Ledger editorial board meeting were lies and…