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 he is [...]
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January 14, 2010
Mississippi
By Phil West @ The Commercial Appeal
JACKSON — State senators Wednesday gave Gov. Haley Barbour at least part of what he wanted from this legislative session — the power to double from 5 percent to 10 percent the amount of spending cuts he can make in state agencies and departments before extending similar cuts to [...]
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