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April 7, 2009

Bennie Thompson Calls For New Commitment To Citizen Preparedness

In Interview, House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson Calls For New Commitment To Citizen Preparedness, Urges President Obama To Ask Public To Prepareness I recently had the opportunity to interview Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, on the subject of citizen preparedness. Speaking in his Capitol Hill office, Thompson told me…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
April 7, 2009

State Auditor Stacey Pickering asking for stimulus funds for oversight

Pickering asking for stimulus funds With the state’s roughly $2.8-billion share of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) money starting to flow in, State Auditor Stacey Pickering is seeking permission from the federal government to divert between $3.5 million and $5 million to his office to fund accountability and oversight of how Mississippi agencies spend…