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• Wicker Rejects Administration Claim that Legalizing Illegal Immigrants will Help U.S. Economy

  Wicker Rejects Administration Claim that Legalizing Illegal Immigrants will Help U.S. Economy WASHINGTON – Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., joined with several colleagues today in rejecting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s claim that legalizing illegal immigrants will help the U.S. economy. Sec. Napolitano addressed immigration reform last Friday during a [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:50pm EST
  

• Nunnelee For Congress Release - Where are the jobs?

  Nunnelee For Congress Release - Where are the jobs? Tupelo, MS… Congressman Travis Childers voted for President Obama and Nancy Pelosi’s $787 billion stimulus package saying it would create 9000 jobs in the First Congressional District. Recently he claimed it’s ‘working.’ But the number of unemployed people in North Mississippi continues [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:49pm EST
  

• NYT slams Thad Cochran over Credit Card vote block

  NYT slams Thad Cochran over Credi Card vote block Congress left consumers extremely vulnerable when it gave the credit card industry as long as 15 months to end the deceptive predatory practices outlawed in the spring in the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act. The credit card industry, which clearly [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:07pm EST
  

• BARBOUR wants Kay B. Hutchison to stay in D.C.

  BARBOUR wants Kay B. Hutchison to stay in D.C. CEDAR CREEK, Tex. -- Given that this year's Republican Governors Association meeting is taking place here in Texas, reporters today asked RGA Chairman Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi, to weigh in on the Rick Perry-vs.-Kay Bailey Hutchison GOP primary for Texas [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:01pm EST
  

• NYT - A Tilt Away From Social Issues - GOP govs. are optimistic

  NYT - A Tilt Away From Social Issues - GOP govs. are optimistic After two bleak years, Republican governors gathered here on Thursday to assess their political future — and they liked what they saw. With 37 governors’ seats open in 2010, the party is looking to topple some big-name Democrats. What [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:00pm EST
  

• UPI - Barbour: GOP govs leading party back

  UPI - Barbour: GOP govs leading party back AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi says his fellow governors are "leading the comeback" of the Republican Party. Barbour spoke at a news conference Wednesday as the Republican Governors Association began a conference in Austin, Texas, The Washington Post [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:58pm EST
  

• Republican Governors Warn on Costs to States

  Republican Governors Warn on Costs to States There is one group of elected officials who are decidedly unhappy with the health care proposal unveiled by the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada — Republican governors. The governors, assembled here for a meeting of the Republican Governors Association, denounced the bill on [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:56pm EST
  

• Harper aide says Democratic policies hurtful to U.S. families

  Harper aide says Democratic policies hurtful to U.S. families Evan Gardner, a field representative for 3rd Congressional District Rep. Gregg Harper, R-Pearl, conveyed the congressman's views on health care legislation, cap and trade legislation and President Barack Obama's deficit spending Wednesday morning to a small crowd at the Brookhaven-Lincoln County Chamber [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:53pm EST
  

• Ole Miss student interviews Luckett, Mayo and Ole Miss prof. Cy Rosenblatt about Luckett’s chances

  Ole Miss student interviews Luckett, Mayo and Ole Miss prof. Cy Rosenblatt about Luckett's chances http://www.jour480.wordpress.com 11/20/9 [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:48pm EST
  

• PERRY - Grisham’s latest is nice if you’re sick of the non-fiction Grisham that’s unfolded here

  PERRY - Grisham's latest is nice if you're sick of the non-fiction Grisham that's unfolded here The FBI raids the office of a billionaire trial lawyer who brought down Big Tobacco after flipping a cohort in a judicial bribery scheme. His own defense lawyer turns against him when a former district' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:39pm EST
  

• MINOR - Barbour headed down a dead-end with university consolidation

  MINOR - Barbour headed down a dead-end with university consolidation As Haley Barbour tries to consolidate the state’s eight universities into five, he’s headed down a dead-end road. For starters, a governor or Legislature tampering with the eight established institutions of high learning – three of them traditionally black and five predominantly [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:35pm EST
  

• Travis Childers in a commercial as a Dem. who voted no

  Travis Childers in a commercial as a Dem. who voted no Showing new signs of life after the embarrassing debacle in New York's 23rd Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions and the National Republican Congressional Committee are already pounding some senior Democrats whose vote in favor of Nancy Pelosi's healthcare package [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:32pm EST
  

• MSGOP Chairman Brad White Responds to Jamie Frank’s Comments on Budget

  Jackson, Miss. – Republican Party Chairman Brad White issued the following statement today on the remarks made by Democratic Party Chairman Jamie Franks regarding Governor Haley Barbour’s budget recommendations: “Jamie Franks shows us the difference between big government, big spending Democrats and the prudent reforms presented by Governor Haley Barbour.” [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:38pm EST
  

• Community colleges booming in Mississippi

  Community colleges booming in Mississippi CLARKSDALE – “Community colleges are booming and busting at the seams; we are not only key to progress of Mississippi but the survival of Mississippi,” Dr. Eric Clark told educators and officials here Wednesday. Speaking at a legislative luncheon hosted by Coahoma and Mississippi Delta Community Colleges, [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:01pm EST
  

• MS Dems respond to Governor Barbour’s ideas

  Chairman Franks responds to Gov. Barbour's budget JACKSON - Chairman Jamie Franks released the following statements regarding Gov. Haley Barbour’s budget recommendations. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS “The governor has touted his ability to bring new jobs to Mississippi, but under his administration Mississippi is facing the worst economic downturn most of us have seen.” “Instead [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:01pm EST
  

• More cuts proposed for Mississippi’s 2-year colleges

  More cuts proposed for Mississippi's 2-year colleges It looks like our state's two-year colleges aren't beyond the reach of Governor Haley Barbour's budget axe. Mississippi's community college system has already had to trim 5 percent in the middle of the current budget year, and Hinds Community College President Dr. Clyde Muse says' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:58pm EST
  

• AP - Miss. Governor’s Mansion gets nearly $50K touchup

  AP - Miss. Governor's Mansion gets nearly $50K touchup NASCAR fans are helping the Mississippi Governor's Mansion get a small facelift. The state is spending $49,675 for a private contracting crew to repaint the four front columns and to do other maintenance work on the porch. That's almost as much as the [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:57pm EST
  

• WLOX - ‘It’s going to affect everybody personally,’ warn lawmakers about future budget cuts

  WLOX - 'It's going to affect everybody personally,' warn lawmakers about future budget cuts LONG BEACH, MS (WLOX) – "It is a grim reality. And the face of government, the shape of government I believe, is going to have to change if we're going to survive," said Sen. Billy Hewes. Senator Hewes' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:55pm EST
  

• PUFFINGTON - Haley Barbour mention for 2012 GOP nod through enviro-lens

  Will the GOP Nominate a Climate Change Denier in 2012? In the early stages of the race for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2012, eight names are mentioned most frequently: Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour, Bobby Jindal and Dick Cheney. Of these eight early contenders, [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:08pm EST
  

• RGA meet in Austin

  RGA meet in Austin n a conference call yesterday previewing this week's two-day Republican Governors Association meeting in Austin, RGA Chairman Haley Barbour (also the governor of Mississippi) said the purpose of the meeting was "to celebrate and build on the successes in New Jersey and Virginia this month," but more [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:50pm EST
  

• Maj. in Miss. - The Interesting Lack of Response From Democrats

  Maj. in Miss. - The Interesting Lack of Response From Democrats Most of the Clarion-Ledger’s stories regarding Haley Barbour FY 2011 budget outline have focused on reactions from people who stand to have an alma mater affected by mergers, and there reactions are predictable (and understandable). Most Americans suffer from NIMBY [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:48pm EST
  

• MID Stresses Reviewing Coverage During 2009 Medicare Open Enrollment

  MID Stresses Reviewing Coverage During 2009 Medicare Open Enrollment Jackson - The Social Security Administration has announced those receiving Social Security benefits will not be getting cost-of-living-adjustments in the coming year. Commissioner of Insurance Mike Chaney announced today that Mississippi senior citizens and Medicare recipients should be aware of the coverage in their policies during [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:46pm EST
  

• Advance Mississippi Releases Issue Brief on Nuclear Energy

  Advance Mississippi Releases Issue Brief on Nuclear Energy JACKSON – Today, Advance Mississippi released its latest issue brief, which provides an in-depth look at nuclear energy. The brief, entitled “Nuclear Energy: An Overview,” reports on the current state of nuclear energy and discussed the economic and environmental benefits of the power [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:26pm EST
  

• CL - 79 of 82 counties declared disaster

  79 of 82 counties declared disaster The Department of Agriculture designated 79 of the state's 82 counties natural disaster areas, opening the doors for farmers to apply for federal assistance programs. Farmers in three other counties - Kemper, Neshoba and Newton - also will be able to apply for assistance because [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:12pm EST
  

• DISPATCH - MUW merger plan: State wouldn’t see savings until 2012

  DISPATCH - MUW merger plan: State wouldn’t see savings until 2012 Merging Mississippi University for Women with Mississippi State University in 2011 will save $35 million ... in 2012. As expected, Gov. Haley Barbour recommended in his Monday budget proposal the two state universities be merged to save on administrative costs. He also [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:10pm EST
  

• SALTER - Barbour’s budget plan tosses gauntlet to the Legislature

  SALTER - Barbour's budget plan tosses gauntlet to the Legislature Gov. Haley Barbour's Fiscal Year 2011 Executive Budget Recommendation contains something for almost every lobbyist, special interest group, educational institution, state agency head and state employee to dislike. The Barbour budget plan cuts public education at virtually every level, cuts Medicaid, cuts [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:08pm EST
  

• WLBT - Does illegal immigration drain the state’s budget?

  WLBT - Does illegal immigration drain the state's budget? It was the nation's largest single site raid on undocumented workers. And when nearly 600 workers were rounded up at Howard Industries in Laurel, it was clear that illegal immigration is no longer just an issue for border states. "Really, we're people looking for'" [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:05pm EST
  

• Barbour’s university merger proposals could falter

  Barbour's university merger proposals could falter Some Mississippi House members say Republican Gov. Haley Barbour's most politically sensitive budget proposals are likely to be dead on arrival - including a recommendation to merge eight universities into five. Rep. Cecil Brown of Jackson, a Democrat on the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, said Tuesday [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:03pm EST
  

• Thompson briefed on Fort Hood shooting

  Thompson briefed on Fort Hood shooting Government officials on Tuesday briefed key lawmakers on the deadly shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, and are slated to provide more updates on Wednesday. The closed-door briefings provided by Army and FBI officials on Tuesday did little to quell a widening partisan chasm over Congress’s role [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:50pm EST
  

• JERENASH - If Childers and Pelosi are linked, then so are Nunnelee and Barbour

  JERENASH - If Childers and Pelosi are linked, then so are Nunnelee and Barbour One of Sen. Alan Nunnelee's favorite tactics in his campaign against Cong. Travis Childers is to link Childers with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Regardless of how Childers votes on cap & trade or health care, [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:45pm EST
  

• Congressman Childers Announces Disaster Relief Designation for All First District Counties

  Congressman Childers Announces Disaster Relief Designation for All First District Counties Washington, DC – Congressman Travis Childers (MS-01) today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) decision to designate nearly all Mississippi counties – including all 24 counties in the First Congressional District – as disaster areas, providing much-needed relief to [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:55pm EST
  

• Wicker: With $12 Trillion Debt & Record Job Losses, U.S. Can’t Afford Democrats’ Health Care Pla

  Wicker: With $12 Trillion Debt & Record Job Losses, U.S. Can’t Afford Democrats’ Health Care Plan WASHINGTON – As the national debt today reached an all-time high of $12 trillion, U.S. Senator Roger Wicker released the following statement on health care spending and reform proposals being considered in Congress: “Today, our [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:54pm EST
  

• Eastland stands behind Motion to Dismiss – cross-claim filed for Patterson in Wilson v Scruggs

  Eastland stands behind Motion to Dismiss – Greer files cross-claim for Patterson in Wilson v Scruggs Big football weekend here in the land of the slabbed; but, no sports channel was covering the settlement game – and one is definitely playing in Wilson v Scruggs. Almost simultaneously with their settlement with Team [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:51pm EST
  

• LAWANDMORE’s Jane Genova publishes “The Fat Guy From Greenwich”

  "The Fat Guy From Greenwich" peeks at the comic underbelly of success on the Gold Coast of Connecticut. In this novel, the main character Jonathan Miller II aka The Fat Guy From Greenwich is a venture capitalist who became wealthy during the 1990s boom and made even more after The [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:38pm EST
  

• Wicker & Harper Defend “In God We Trust”

  Wicker & Harper Defend “In God We Trust” Mississippi Lawmakers Sign Legal Brief in Defense of National Motto & Pledge of Allegiance Inscriptions at New Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON – Senator Roger Wicker and Representative Gregg Harper today announced they have signed a legal brief opposing a lawsuit [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:11pm EST
  

• Posey Announces Lowest Entergy Mississippi Bills In Over Six Years

  Today, Central District Public Service Commissioner Lynn Posey (D-Union Church) announced that the Mississippi Public Service Commission will act quickly on Entergy Mississippi’s quarterly fuel adjustment currently under review by the Public Utilities Staff to insure lower, as well as stable, rates for Entergy Mississippi This action, coupled with previous actions by the [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:09pm EST
  

• DeLano, Collins vie for state house seat today

  DeLano, Collins vie for state house seat today Voters will head to the polls today to decide whether Patrick Collins or Scott DeLano will replace former Republican state Rep. Michael Janus in the Mississippi House of Representatives. Polls will be open today from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. in the district, which [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:00pm EST
  

• WLOX - Cochran, Wicker want a closer look at healthcare reform costs

  Cochran, Wicker want a closer look at healthcare reform costs Mississippi Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker are asking that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid allow his health reform package to be submitted for a more thorough analysis to determine its long-term costs to the nation. The Mississippi Senators are among 25 [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:58pm EST
  

• WSJ - Blue Dogs Make Sleepy Watch Dogs - All bark and no bite

  WSJ - Blue Dogs Make Sleepy Watch Dogs - All bark and no bite When the so-called fiscally conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats folded on the health care reform bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi skated to victory and even declared, "That was easy." No wonder. A new analysis of the three big [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:53pm EST
  

• Hotline explores whether Pelosi attacks will work against Rep. Travis Childers in MS-01

  Anatomy Of An Attack: Does Using Pelosi Actually Work? GOPers acknowledge they won't be able to use Pelosi in Dem-held districts in several regions, but one strategist called her "an important piece of the puzzle," especially in districts held by conservative Dems like Bright and Rep. Travis Childers (D-MS). "We ought to'" [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:46pm EST
  

• Entergy proposes rate drop

  Entergy proposes rate drop If approved a customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month will pay about $79.46 beginning in January. The same customer pays about $88.35 now. Entergy has come under fire for rate hikes, including a 2008 28 percent increase. The company blamed natural gas prices. The company said [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:43pm EST
  

• Human Error Blamed for Crediting New Stimulus Jobs to Nonexistent Places

  Human Error Blamed for Crediting New Stimulus Jobs to Nonexistent Places Late Monday, officials with the Recovery Board created to track the stimulus spending, said the mistakes in crediting nonexistent congressional districts were caused by human error. "We report what the recipients submit to us," said Ed Pound, Communications Director for the [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:41pm EST
  

• Maj. in Miss: Ghost of Districts past - MS-5 has 30 jobs saved by stimulus

  Maj. in Miss: Ghost of Districts past - MS-5 has 30 jobs saved by stimulus And by MS-05 I mean Mississippi’s Fifth Congressional District, the district that disappeared almost a decade ago. Miraculously, the $787 billion stimulus has created or “saved” 30 jobs in that extinct district at the cost [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:29pm EST
  

• Barbour’s budget recommendations

  Barbour's budget recommendations [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:22pm EST
  

• CL - Budget: Barbour cuts broad and deep

  CL - Budget: Barbour cuts broad and deep Gov. Haley Barbour didn't just present his annual executive budget Monday: He proposed remaking state government with what he termed "very significant, major, dramatic ways to reduce spending." What I propose is to change the way we do a lot of things," he said. That'" [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:14pm EST
  

• HA - Will lawmakers OK school mergers?

  HA - Will lawmakers OK school mergers? In something of a surprise, Gov. Haley Barbour on Monday unveiled his budget recommendations that includes merging some of Mississippi's eight public universities. Barbour said Mississippi University for Women should become part of Mississippi State University and Alcorn State and Mississippi Valley State should be [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:13pm EST
  

• SH - Cost cutting has community colleges worried

  SH - Cost cutting has community colleges worried The “tough decisions” Gov. Haley Barbour recommends in his proposed budget for fiscal-year 2011 would put community colleges at a disadvantage providing educational opportunities to students locally, an administrator said. “Because our role is to be responsive to our community, we don’t believe we [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:12pm EST
  

• Roger Wicker and Gregg Harper don’t want “In God, We Trust” removed

  Roger Wicker and Gregg Harper don't want “In God, We Trust” removed WASHINGTON - (Business Wire) The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) – dedicated to the defense of constitutional liberties secured by law – announced today it has filed an amicus brief on behalf of 44 members of Congress' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:09pm EST
  

• Agencies prepare for wave of cuts - Government aims to “really streamline,” state auditor says

  Agencies prepare for wave of cuts - Government aims to "really streamline," state auditor says Mississippians could see even longer lines when they get driver's licenses renewed. The state auditor's office is putting off technology upgrades. And state government jobs will continue to go unfilled. Leaders of state agencies are prioritizing services that must [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:06pm EST
  

• STAR - Meridian Tea Party collects signatures for Voter ID Initiative

  Meridian Tea Party collects signatures for Voter ID Initiative A 30-day petition drive by the Meridian Tea Party to collect signatures needed to get a Voter ID Initiative on ballot next year has exceeded expectations, according to organizers. "It's been a good process; hopefully, we'll be able to turn in over a'" [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:05pm EST