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March 28, 2014
Mississippi Senators Roger Wicker and Thad Cochran back counterdrug training
Senators back Counterdrug Training Washington, D.C. Mississippi’s Roger Wicker and Thad Cochran, along with a bi-partisan group of other senators, are speaking out in favor of funding counterdrug training centers around the country. Appropriations for five such facilities is not included in the president’s fiscal year 2015 budget. The Regional Counterdrug Training Academy (RCTA) at…
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March 28, 2014
The Parents Campaign, Nancy Loome pushing to kill special-needs vouchers, increased MAEP funding
Email from The Parents Campaign and Nancy Loome… “My inbox is overflowing and my phone ringing off the hook with our members expressing their dismay that the voucher bill is still being considered. I agree! HB 765 is obviously the first step in the effort to privatize and “profitize” our public schools. “Heather, a mom…
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March 28, 2014
Mississippi House passes marijuana oil bill to help children with seizures
Mississippi House passes bill to legalize marijuana oil with tight restrictions The Mississippi House of Representatives voted Thursday to make a medicinal marijuana oil legal in the state under tightly controlled circumstances. The House voted 112-6 to pass the final version of House Bill 1231. The Senate still must approve the agreement before it goes…
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March 28, 2014
Dickie Scruggs in home confinement
Dickie Scruggs, who helped fellow inmates in prison, moves to home confinement He earned millions and made national headlines suing corporations, but disbarred attorney Dickie Scruggs returned home quietly last week to Oxford, where he will finish a prison sentence under home confinement. His old friend Mike Moore, a Jackson lawyer who previously served as…
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March 27, 2014
Chris McDaniel @CMforUSSenate on Memphis Fox 13 news
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March 27, 2014
Former attorney Dickie Scruggs moves to halfway house – UPDATE (make that his own house)
Dickie Scruggs placed on home confinement Disbarred Mississippi attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs is back at home in Oxford. Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke says Scruggs was released to home confinement on March 20. He says the expectation is the Scruggs remain on home confinement until his release date after serving time in a federal…
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March 27, 2014
McDaniel campaign coordinator, state Sen. Melanie Sojourner defends McDaniel in SunHerald op-ed
MELANIE SOJOURNER: Chris McDaniel personifies conservatism and practicality There has been some back and forth recently in the Sun Herald about the nature of the U.S. Senate primary in Mississippi. Wyatt Emmerich’s recent column looked at the race dispassionately — he did not endorse either candidate — prescribing how he sees each candidate’s view for…
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March 27, 2014
Possible nominee to Commission on Marine Resources draws early ire from charter boat captains
South Mississippi charter boat captains upset over possible CMR nominee The Coast’s charter boat captains aren’t happy with the man they believe will be the nominee to represent them on the Commission on Marine Resources and they’re letting the governor know it. Ed Simmons didn’t have a charter boat license until a few weeks ago,…
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March 27, 2014
Rep. Cecil Brown (D): Special-education kids “more expensive,” “just a bother” to some districts
Glimmer of hope for Mississippi’s overlooked special-needs students Mississippi’s Department of Education has made a habit of pouring taxpayer money into lawsuits against parents of special-needs students rather than funding improvements in the state’s sub-par program, as parents have requested. “School districts often spend more money in lawsuits fighting parents of special-needs kids than they…
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March 27, 2014
State Treasurer Lynn Fitch says closing MPACT would have been more expensive
Fitch: Closing MPACT would have been more expensive The board that oversees the state’s prepaid college tuition plan considered closing the program before deciding this week to reopen enrollment. But shutting it down would have left the state with an even larger shortfall, state Treasurer Lynn Fitch told the Daily Journal editorial board on Wednesday.…
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March 27, 2014
Bryant signs bill negating later school start mandate
Mississippi schools will not start later this year as Bryant signs bill to undo law Mississippi schools won’t be forced to start the academic year in late August, as they had been expecting to do. Gov. Phil Bryant on Wednesday signed Senate Bill 2571). It negates a previous law that would’ve delayed the start of…
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March 27, 2014
SALTER: Alan Nunnelee coming into his own in #MS01
Alan Nunnelee coming into his own in state’s 1st Congressional District It was, as dinner with a member of Congress goes, a pretty low-key affair. My wife and I met U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee of Tupelo and his wife, Torie, for a hamburger after work on a Friday night. Nunnelee, who I was in college…
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May 15, 2026
Effort to make all Mississippi school boards elected failed this session. Another try could come in January
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Joshua Rollo
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May 15, 2026
From Mississippi to defending America under the sea: One sailor’s journey to USS Greeneville
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Daniel Tyson
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May 15, 2026
Judge blocks release of discovery materials in Jackson bribery case against Owens, Lumumba, Banks
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May 14, 2026
Azuria Water Solutions breaks ground on new manufacturing facility in Batesville
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May 12, 2026
M&M Bank’s Legear named chair of Atlanta Fed’s Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council
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May 11, 2026
Lockers Manufacturing announces $9.7 million expansion in Batesville
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May 15, 2026
These guys don’t just drive the team bus. They go the extra mile for the players who love them
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May 15, 2026
Hope through the silence
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May 14, 2026
Conformed to His image
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Mike Ezell
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May 14, 2026
Supporting law enforcement shouldn’t be political
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Sid Salter
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May 13, 2026
Remembering the legacies of former GOP Gov. Kirk Fordice and First Lady Pat Fordice
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Trey Dellinger
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May 11, 2026
New Mississippi abortion pill law protects women
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