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June 15, 2007

SUPREMES – Padhuship Muerte

Court denies appeal to fund smoking prevention program The Mississippi Supreme Court has rejected an appeal that would have continued funding a tobacco prevention and cessation program co-founded by former state Attorney General Mike Moore. Justices voted 6-1 to uphold a lower court’s ruling that ended annual payments for The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi.…
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June 15, 2007

Attorney general challenges Barbour’s spending veto

Attorney general challenges Barbour’s spending veto Attorney General Jim Hood filed a lawsuit today challenging a veto by Gov. Haley Barbour to keep his office in charge of $5.5 million for youth groups. Barbour vetoed a bill allowing Hood’s office to spend federal welfare funds on the YMCA, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mississippi, the…