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March 27, 2008

Income growth 3rd in nation

The Clarion-Ledger, 3/27/8 Mississippi had the third-highest increase in per capita income among all states in 2007, according to a Bureau of Economic Analysis report released Wednesday. “It is a continuation of what has been going on since 2004,” Gov. Haley Barbour said. Per capita income has increased about 19.5 percent since 2004, when he…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 27, 2008

Moral high ground on campaign cash can be a slippery place

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 3/27/8 The perfect squelch? Jim Herring thought so. But Wayne Dowdy had a reply. Last week, Herring, chairman of the Republican Party in Mississippi, summoned cameras to a press conference in Jackson. The big announcement was that his party would turn over to Boys and Girls Clubs of Mississippi the entire $27,250…