Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimation, irresponsible delays and irresponsible taxation doesn't reflect good public policy," said Rep. John H. Flood (D-Canton), chair of the Taxation Committee and a gubernatorial candidate...
...Canton and the Showdown...
...Indeed, in some instances, [the Republicans] were correct," says Rep. John Flood (D-Canton), a candidate for governor and chair of the Taxation Committee. He says he has voiced his opposition to the Democrats' budget plans since they were first debated...
...hauls them to new sites. There volunteers from local churches and schools join with families that have been aided in the past to install wiring, put up paneling and dig septic tanks. Over the past six years MadCAAP has recycled old houses for 70 families in and around Canton (pop. 11,500), a courthouse-squared town 20 miles north of Jackson. MadCAAP's aim, according to its unflappable founder and director, Sister Grace Mary McGuire, 57, is to "try and break the cycle of poverty by helping one family at a time...
Fortunately, traffic around Canton is light, and the drive through town and up to Anderson's land proceeds without delay. Malone pulls the truck through an opening in the bushes and turns the rig around in front of the burned remains of the old house. "I think you should move it a little more away from the power line," the Mississippi Power & Light man warns Malone as he checks the house's positioning. Towner calls Anderson over to the front. "Do you like it here?" he asks. She looks up and down the building's length and along its sides...