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July 31, 2008

Road projects targeted for metro area

The Clarion-Ledger, 7/31/8 About $854 million is expected to be spent on Jackson metro-area road projects over the next four years, including more than $370 million for the Hinds-Rankin Airport Parkway project. At $370.1 million through 2010, the Airport Parkway project is the costliest in the metro area. According to the Mississippi Department of Transportation,…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
July 31, 2008

Medicaid: Judge shouldn’t set legislative goals

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 7/31/8 The nearly 40 hospitals seeking to stop Gov. Haley Barbour’s planned cuts to the state’s Medicaid program may have logic on their side, but a court shouldn’t intervene in basically a legislative matter. “The state is not going to run out of money on Aug. 2, 2008, nor (are federal officials)likely…