“I’ve been blind for 26 hears due a hunting accident, but I have a vision for the state of Mississippi,” he said. Several other candidates from the same race also spoke, including Joseph Jones, Marilyn Richmond and Phil Brown.
Jamie Franks of Mooreville, a candidate for lieutenant governor, lambasted high grocery taxes and the practice of fully funding education only in election years. He got a laugh when he declared, “I’m happy to be speaking where I don’t have to explain where Mooreville is.”
La., Miss. cotton acres to be about half of last year AP / Sun Herald
In Louisiana, for example, cotton acreage is expected to total 340,000 acres, down from 635,000 last year and 11 percent below farmers' intentions last spring, USDA said. In Mississippi, cotton acreage is projected to hit 680,000 acres, down from 1.2 million in 2006.
Immigration superhighway The Sun Herald
The state Department of Transportation officially says it requires all contractors to follow federal immigration laws, but the recent arrests of dozens of undocumented workers on the Coast and the words of a top-ranking MDOT official suggest otherwise.
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"We don't check for Social Security numbers. We don't check citizenship. We don't check for anything because we're not required to," Hall said.
Laws Take Effect Today The Clarion Ledger
Beginning today, dozens of new state laws will change the way some Mississippians drive, protect their credit and even buy medicine.
They include:
Paying for tuition, room and board for active military servicemen.
Requiring doctors to give sonograms to women considering abortion and offer them a chance to listen to the fetal heartbeat.
Allowing state, city and county leaders to build toll roads as long as a free alternative route exists.
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