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...example, he said, while Mississippi draws its education funds from taxes on sales of catfish and cotton, Washington state—where thousands of students receive complimentary laptop computers—draws its dollars for schools from tax revenue from Microsoft and Boeing...

Author: By David B. Rochelson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jackson Jr. Argues for New Amendments | 2/25/2003 | See Source »

...when the Florida Supreme Court threw out an obstructionist lawsuit by the National Organization of Women. Today there are 37,000 Florida “Choose Life” plates and $1,480,000 has been raised to promote adoption and other pro-birth solutions. Alabama, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma have also recently put such plates on the road as well...

Author: By Paul C. Schultz, | Title: A License Plate for Life | 1/30/2003 | See Source »

...renomination of Charles Pickering for a federal appellate judgeship a clever feint by George Bush? That's what many Senate Democrats now think. Bush announced last week that he will send Pickering's name back to the Senate for an appeals-court seat in New Orleans. The conservative Mississippi judge, strongly backed by Senator Trent Lott, was nominated last year but blocked by Democrats over questions about his civil-rights record, including a 1959 law-review article he wrote opposing interracial marriage. Why would President Bush revisit that battle so soon after Lott resigned as majority leader over racially loaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Judge Or A Decoy? | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...Mississippi's rank (out of 50 states) for charitable giving as a percentage of income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Jan. 13, 2003 | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...Mississippi's rank (out of 50 states) in average personal income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Jan. 13, 2003 | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

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