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May 7, 2009
YP – My take on the Frank Melton I knew
Certainly, I would like to extend my sympathies to the family of Frank Melton. Though I only met Ellen one time, I know how much he cared for her and their children. We talked regularly, though less so in the last year. The last time I talked with him was the night before the “hung…
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May 7, 2009
AGNEW – Frank Melton’s unconquerable enemy was human frailty
Melton’s unconquerable enemy was human frailty He relished the complicated life that he led and he took great joy by confounding any and all who tried to understand him. He loved keeping people off balance, wondering what antic he would think of next. He was unpredictable, at times unflappable, but also sensitive about how people…
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May 7, 2009
Reaction to Mayor Frank Melton’s death
Reaction to Melton’s death Leslie Burl McLemore, acting mayor: “It is clearly a day that we will long remember because Frank Melton, in this community, was really larger than life. He was not just a mayor he was a person known through out this community and throughout this state.” Councilman Frank Bluntson: “I just regret…
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May 7, 2009
Perry – Barbour and Resurgent Republic
Perry – Barbour and Resurgent Republic Voters facing a struggling economy under the Bush presidency ushered in a new young Democratic President. Republicans wandered in the minority in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate. Democrats promoted policies of socialized healthcare, reducing the military, and liberal tax and spend policies. The year was 1993 and Republicans…
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May 7, 2009
Favre might Jet to Minnesota
Favre might Jet to Minnesota I suppose Brad Childress will promise Brett Favre that he’ll name his next son after him. I don’t even know if Childress has kids or is planning to have kids, but the mere fact that he’s willing to have a sit-down meeting with Favre, as ESPN reported today, shows how…
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May 7, 2009
No Nice Way to Say It: I’m Tired of Favre
No Nice Way to Say It: I’m Tired of Favre The owner of the Minnesota Vikings is Zygi Wilf, which means Brett Favre has become The Boy Who Cried Wilf. He also now qualifies as the most persistently annoying athlete in sports, a man in distinct danger of losing his icon status in this country…
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May 7, 2009
It’s time for Brett Favre to sack the comebacks and retire
It’s time for Brett Favre to sack the comebacks and retire It was easy to sympathize with Brett Favre last summer as he was tormented by his decision to retire and was then humiliated when the Packers, in effect, put up 10-feet-high concrete road blocks at either end of Lombardi Ave. to keep him away.…
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May 7, 2009
YP – Frank Melton has passed away (1949-2009)
Clarion Ledger Longtime community activist and Jackson Mayor Frank Melton died at 12:10 a.m. today at St. Dominic Hospital with family at his side, city spokeswoman Goldia Revies said. A former television station owner and personality, Melton, 60, will be remembered mostly for his turbulent political career that began four years ago with his overwhelming…
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May 7, 2009
Who’s your pick: A.J. Green or Julio Jones?
Who’s your pick: A.J. Green or Julio Jones? Nobody asked me, but: A.J. Green or Julio Jones? Like most good debate questions, this one came up on the golf course. If you’re drafting your own fantasy football team and it comes to wide receiver, who do you take: Georgia’s A.J. Green or Alabama’s Julio Jones?…
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May 7, 2009
Catholic star gets UT football scholarship despite troubled past
Catholic star gets UT football scholarship despite troubled past Knoxville Catholic High School’s Daniel Hood signed a football scholarship with the University of Tennessee on Tuesday afternoon. That the once sought-after recruit signed nearly three months after many of the nation’s elite players is a result of Hood’s role in the sexual assault of a…
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May 7, 2009
3 state schools get APR penalties
3 state schools get APR penalties OXFORD — As expected, the Ole Miss football program will lose three scholarships after receiving low marks on the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate report, which was released on Wednesday afternoon. But UM athletic director Pete Boone said he expected the scholarship penalty to be a one-year aberration and that…
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May 7, 2009
Transfer creates opening on roster
Transfer creates opening on roster STARKVILLE — Mississippi State solved one piece to its basketball scholarship puzzle Wednesday. It’s still waiting on another. Reserve forward Jacquiese Holcombe said Wednesday that he’s planning to transfer from State. That’ll open up a scholarship for the arrivals of big men Renardo Sidney and John Riek. Riek’s signing was…
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June 8, 2026
With jumpsuits, wigs and dance moves, these young boys and teens keep Elvis’ legacy alive
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Frank Corder
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June 8, 2026
EVE Energy makes U.S. Dept. of War’s roster of “Chinese military companies”
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Frank Corder
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June 8, 2026
New report shows Mississippi made progress in education but challenges remain in other child well-being metrics
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Daniel Tyson
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May 20, 2026
International Paper breaks ground on new $225 million facility in central Mississippi
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Frank Corder
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May 14, 2026
Azuria Water Solutions breaks ground on new manufacturing facility in Batesville
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Frank Corder
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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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Robert St. John
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June 8, 2026
The real work
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Alistair Begg
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June 8, 2026
Radical remorse
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Matt Friedeman
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June 7, 2026
Everyone is a disciple – the question is, “Whose?”
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Kelley Williams
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June 8, 2026
What the Corps understands but you don’t
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Roger Wicker
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June 5, 2026
Mississippi building 21st century blue economy
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Sid Salter
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June 3, 2026
It’s the third of June and the haunting mystery of Gentry’s ‘Ode to Billy Joe’ remains
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