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February 16, 2012
Jackson company sold for $100M
Jackson company sold for $100M Jackson-based smart grid developer SmartSynch announced Wednesday it will be acquired by international energy technology company Itron Inc. in a deal worth $100 million. Following an afternoon celebration with cake, SmartSynch CEO Stephen Johnston said the company – and its 84 employees in Mississippi – aren’t going anywhere. “This means…
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February 16, 2012
House OKs hiring of outside lawyers
House OKs hiring of outside lawyers It took them more than four hours, but Republican leaders drove legislation through the House on Wednesday that would let state agency and department heads hire outside lawyers, greatly reducing the power of the state’s lone Democrat officeholder, Atty. Gen. Jim Hood. The four hours of debate was bare-knuckle…
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February 16, 2012
Desoto County gets Miss. delegation support in fight with EPA
Desoto County gets Miss. delegation support in fight with EPA DeSoto County’s congressional delegation, taking aim at EPA’s “misguided” proposal to list the county with Memphis as falling short on ozone standards, has called on agency chief Lisa Jackson to clear the air by reversing the plan. “This plan is problematic not only on an…
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February 16, 2012
Lynn Fitch ad wins top national award
Lynn Fitch ad wins top national award Not only did Madison’s own Lynn Fitch win the race for Mississippi State Treasurer, the television ad that helped her won big as well. The 2011 commercial featuring her son J. T. Mitchell took top honors at the fourth annual Reed Awards in Washington, D.C. this month. The…
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February 16, 2012
New budgeting rule adopted in Miss. Legislature
New budgeting rule adopted in Miss. Legislature Mississippi legislators have set a new budget-writing rule, but only after arguing about whether it increases accountability or limits most lawmakers’ power to boost spending on education and other programs. Senators voted 32-16 Wednesday to adopt the Legislature’s joint operating rules for the four-year term that started last…
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February 16, 2012
Trent Lott Op-Ed – Preventing horse slaughter – a personal evolution
Preventing horse slaughter – a personal evolution A few years ago, when I was still serving in the Senate, I was asked to support legislation that would ban the practice of slaughtering horses for human consumption. My initial reaction was cool to the notion that the federal government should be mandating or telling owners of…
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February 16, 2012
YP BREAKING – HB211 aka the “Sunshine” Act has passed the MS House unamended
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2012/PDF/history/HB/HB0211.xml
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February 15, 2012
YP – Pee in a cup for Sunshine? #drugs #msleg
Rep. Omeria Scott has introduced an amendment to the Sunshine legislation to have the Personnel Board to drug test outside counsel. Yes, the whole world has officially gone off it’s rocker. The scary thing is that her amendment got 49 yeas. By the way, Democrats are 0-15 on proposed amendements so far in the debate.…
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February 15, 2012
Sen. Joey Fillingane introduces new anti-abortion bill
Anti-abortion plan pushed Under the plan by Sen. Joey Fillingane, R-Sumrall, it would be the policy of Mississippi to “protect the life of every unborn child from conception to birth, to the extent permitted by the federal Constitution.” The “personhood” amendment that was rejected by 58 percent of Mississippi voters last year would have defined…
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February 15, 2012
CNN ambushes Haley Barbour … three times in one day
CNN ambushes Haley Barbour … three times in one day
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February 15, 2012
Hiding in the shadows
HOME2012.org is Astroturf in action by Frank Corder
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February 15, 2012
Cochran and Wicker Join Challenge to Constitutionality of Health Care Reform Insurance Mandate
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — The office of Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker (R-Miss) are among 43 Senators who have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a multi-state legal challenge to a federal mandate that individuals must purchase health…
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December 15, 2025
Lawmakers see financial literacy as a growing need in Mississippi’s colleges and universities
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December 15, 2025
Amick Farms announces $74.5 million expansion in Jones County
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December 15, 2025
Supreme Court will hear appeal of Black death row inmate over racial bias in Mississippi jury makeup
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Frank Corder
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December 11, 2025
$100 million metallurgical biocarbon manufacturer locating in Pike County
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December 2, 2025
BWC Terminals break ground in Pascagoula
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Frank Corder
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November 21, 2025
Ingalls completes sea trials for USS Ted Stevens
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Robert St. John
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December 15, 2025
The last strand of tinsel
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Alistair Begg
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December 15, 2025
The law of love
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Matt Friedeman
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December 14, 2025
Charles Wesley and Christmas
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Russ Latino
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December 10, 2025
University of Mississippi Chancellor responds to Lauren Stokes’ First Amendment lawsuit, seeks dismissal
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Sid Salter
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December 10, 2025
Guardrails or gravel? Why America and Mississippi must get AI regulation right in 2026
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Merle Flowers
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December 8, 2025
The Parents Over Platforms Act: A targeted, privacy-respecting alternative to ASAA
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