Mississippi Today’s Adam Ganucheau, Bobby Harrison and Geoff Pender discuss the unprecedented influx of federal money and the large state surplus and how those funds might be spent by the state’s political leadership, starting in the 2022 legislative session beginning Jan. 4.
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