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March 23, 2009
Atlanta bids for Florida-Georgia game
Atlanta bids for Florida-Georgia game Atlanta sports boosters hope to win one of the country’s top college football rivalries: the famed annual showdown between Georgia and Florida. Georgia’s four-year contract to play Florida in Jacksonville each year is set to expire next year. Gary Stokan, president of the Atlanta Sports Council, an affiliate of the…
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March 23, 2009
Ready for more Madness?
Ready for more Madness? The man in the Washington Huskies hat on the No.77 bus was a tourism director’s dream. “I’ve sure enjoyed my stay out here,” Tim Carey, a doctor from Seattle, told his friends as they rode the packed bus to the Rose Garden. “I’ll definitely come back.” Carey and thousands of fans…
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March 23, 2009
CHANDLER – Miss. Democratic Party Chaos – Hall, out – Ike Brown, back in
Miss. Democratic Party Chaos Ike Brown is back on the Democratic Party’s state executive committee and Sam Hall, the party’s executive director of less than a month, is out as a result of a weekend meeting called by some committee members. Their action would appear to overturn earlier decisions to prevent Brown’s return to power…
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March 23, 2009
MLR – Coast lawyer lawyer/businessman Stephen Colson gets crossways with Wachovia
Wachovia Bank interpleads $1.5 million in Coast lawyer scandal There is more litigation involving Coast lawyer and businessman Stephen Colson. I previously wrote about the financial scandal involving Colson. On Friday there was a federal court removal of an interpleader action involving Colson that was originally filed in Harrison County Circuit Court. The interpleader Complaint…
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March 23, 2009
Duke savors Sweet 16 appearance
Duke savors Sweet 16 appearance GREENSBORO, N.C. – It was a euphoric scene on the court after the victory. The players were smiling and the coaches looking for anyone and everyone to hug. It was an atmosphere more appropriate for a celebration to advance to the Final Four, but this is what it’s become for…
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March 22, 2009
How did mayor dodge prosecution?
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/22/9 Federal prosecutors declined to prosecute Mayor Frank Melton for bringing his guns aboard commercial flights from Jackson and elsewhere, even though investigators determined he broke the law, according to a report released this month. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration looked into Melton’s practice in 2005 and 2006 of presenting himself to airport…
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March 22, 2009
Melton’s name should be on ballot
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 3/22/9 Mayor Frank Melton and I have had our disagreements – sometimes they’ve been huge and quite public – but this time I am squarely on his side that he should be able to run for the office he’s held for four years. Last week, the Jackson Democratic Municipal Executive Committee issued…
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March 22, 2009
Defense in Melton case makes last-ditch motion
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/21/9 Mayor Frank Melton’s attorney said in a filing in federal court Friday that he is not trying to influence the racial makeup of his client’s next federal jury. At the same time, he restated his opposition to drawing a panel for Melton’s May 11 retrial from the state’s six coastal counties because…
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March 22, 2009
Report critical of airport security procedures
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/22/9 A loophole in airport security could allow a phony lawman to bring guns aboard a plane with little more than a fake letter and a badge bought off the Internet, a newly declassified federal report concludes. The report from Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner is sharply critical of the U.S. Transportation…
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March 22, 2009
Brown draws mixed reviews as MDOT boss
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 3/22/9 Sen. Bob Dearing, D-Natchez, remembers that in 2001 newly elected Central District Transportation Commissioner Dick Hall asked if he thought former Natchez Mayor Larry “Butch” Brown would make a good executive director of the state Department of Transportation. Dearing remembers Hall saying Brown had been recommended by then-U.S. Sen.…
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March 22, 2009
$44M coming for job training
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/22/9 Mississippi officials hope to parlay $44.3 million earmarked for training programs in the economic stimulus package into job opportunities for the state’s residents. The money comes as thousands of Mississippians are receiving pink slips and unemployment in January was 9.2 percent. “(Stimulus money) would be used to let people pay for college…
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March 22, 2009
16th Section: New battle in old fight
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 3/22/9 Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann finds himself right in the middle of a new battle in an very old fight in Mississippi – the fight to protect the interests of the state’s schoolchildren in demanding maximum revenues from the state’s 640,000 acres of 16th Section land across the state. Hosemann told…
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April 30, 2025
US stocks sink after a weak report on the economy but then halve their losses after inflation update
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Daniel Tyson
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April 30, 2025
Plans to construct new Entergy power plant in Ridgeland moving forward
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Frank Corder
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April 30, 2025
Thompson among Congressional Democrats to meet with ICE detainees in Louisiana
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Frank Corder
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April 23, 2025
Amazon locating inbound cross dock operations in Marshall County, creating 1,000 jobs
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Lynne Jeter
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April 17, 2025
GE Aerospace moving at warp speed in Batesville
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Lynne Jeter
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April 15, 2025
ABB doubling size of operations in Tate County
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Jim Beaugez
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April 30, 2025
New ‘Super Chikan’ documentary takes viewers into the life of a modern Delta bluesman
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C.H. Spurgeon
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April 30, 2025
He has said
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Meredith Biesinger
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April 29, 2025
Mississippi’s U-Pick Farms: A trend that’s growing
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Sid Salter
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April 30, 2025
Is a new era in federal natural disaster relief something Mississippi can easily navigate?
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Bill Crawford
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April 27, 2025
Model Utah program considered by legislature unfairly denigrated
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Courtney Taylor
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April 25, 2025
Inside Mississippi’s workforce reset: Reduce waste, cut overhead, create results
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