Mississippi on Monday June 29, 2009

MS: Miss. lawmakers engage in last-minute budget blitz
By Emily Wagster Pettus, The Associated Press, The Sun Herald (Biloxi)
Mississippi lawmakers are playing a frantic game of beat the clock as they try to pass a nearly $6 billion state budget before the new fiscal year begins Wednesday.
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MS: Barbour says no plans to run for president
By The Associated Press, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)
WASHINGTON — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says he would be "very surprised" if he ended up running for president.
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Tracking the recession: Budget deadline looms
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
Unlike the federal government, states have to balance their budgets. But several states still have not completed spending plans for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
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MS: Budget session yielding progress
By Natalie Chandler, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)
State lawmakers, trying to approve a budget before the new fiscal year begins Wednesday, advanced legislation Sunday that would head off increases in Mississippians' car-tag costs, hike taxes on cheaper cigarettes and set budgets for certain state agencies.
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SC: Romney, other Republicans criticize Sanford affair
By Douglass K. Daniel, The Salt Lake Tribune
WASHINGTON -- A potential White House contender in 2012 staked a claim Sunday to rehabilitating the Republican Party in the wake of extramarital affairs by two leading Republicans that have damaged the GOP's family-values image.
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US: National sex offender registry delayed a year
By The Associated Press, Argus Leader (Sioux Falls)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has given states and American Indian tribes another year to feed a national Internet database set up to protect children by showing where possible predators live and work.
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