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June 15, 2007

Commission blocks Farish St. demolitions

The Clarion-Ledger, 6/15/7 The Jackson Historic Preservation Commission on Thursday approved only two of 50 requests to demolish dilapidated buildings throughout Farish Street’s historic district. While the commission did not actually make it through the entire list of 50 cases, it discussed and voted on 20. It denied 16 and tabled two others. Most of…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
June 15, 2007

Tobacco money ruling upheld

The Sun Herald, 6/15/7 The annual diversion of $20 million of tobacco settlement money to a smoking-cessation program was wrong, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The Supreme Court upheld a December 2006 order from a Jackson County chancery judge, who said only the Legislature could appropriate money to tobacco-cessation programs. Barbour said the Supreme…