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May 1, 2009

Boston Globe Letter to the Editor — Dumping on Erie?

Boston Globe Letter to the Editor — Dumping on Erie? SENATOR ARLEN Specter’s politically expedient party-shuffle has claimed my hometown as a victim (“Senator Specter bolts GOP,” Page A1, April 29). First, Senator Thad Cochran, a Mississippi Republican, apparently belittled Erie, Pa., in his remarks to Specter. Cochran should have plenty of his own state’s…
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May 1, 2009

Barbour expected to sign cigarette tax bill

Barbour expected to sign cigarette tax bill Lawmakers expect to give final approval next week to a bill increasing Mississippi’s cigarette tax to 68 cents for generating much-needed revenues and fortifying the state’s diminishing car tag reduction fund. After being bogged down since January on the legislation, the House and Senate have a compromise to…