Panel selects firm to buy tobacco notes

Wednesday, July 24, 2002

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri will receive just under $50 million to help shore up the current budget following a vote Tuesday to sell promissory notes that will be paid back later from the sale of bonds backed by the state's tobacco settlement money.

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