January 27, 2010
Mississippi
By Molly Parker, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson) Dozens of school superintendents watched from the balcony as House lawmakers passed a measure Tuesday that would restore $100 million to the state budget – a big chunk of it earmarked for K-12 education. The latest House proposal calls for spending $50 million each from the rainy-day and tobacco [...]
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January 19, 2010
Mississippi
MOLLY PARKER @ Clarion Ledger Gov. Haley Barbour emphasized Monday the importance of working together, then warned House lawmakers that failure to yield additional budget-cutting authority to him would result in thousands of criminals turned “loose onto civil society.” In Barbour’s seventh annual State of the State address, he said if not granted budget-cutting flexibility [...]
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