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February 6, 2009
Wicker: Target “stimulus” plan for maximum effect
U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today said the massive spending plan proposed by congressional Democrats spends too much taxpayer money without providing needed economic recovery assistance. Speaking from the floor of the Senate, Wicker noted as little as one-tenth of one percent of the proposed $1.2 trillion stimulus plan could make its way to projects…
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February 6, 2009
FOLO – Press gets peek at Patterson/Balducci sentencing letters
Press gets to see Balducci/Patterson’s pre-sentencing letters Judge Biggers just granted the DJournal, Sandra Knispel, Paul Quinn, and Alyssa Schnugg (who gets this h/t) the same access to Balducci and Patterson’s pre-sentencing letters as they had for the other Scruggs I defendants’. The letters will be available for their inspection at the clerk’s office at…
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February 5, 2009
State Senate passes bill that would make selling of children illegal in Mississippi
The Mississippi Senate passed Senate Bill 2479 which would make the selling of children illegal in Mississippi. The legislation would allow anyone convicted of selling a child to be fined up to $20,000 and imprisoned up to 10 years. “I am proud that my colleagues in the Senate acted on this legislation quickly and in…
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February 5, 2009
Prez-O in WAPO – Pass pork package now or we will sink into crisis “we may not be able to reverse”
The Action Americans Need What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives — action that’s swift, bold and wise enough for us to climb out of this crisis. Because each day we wait to begin the work of turning our economy around, more people lose their…
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February 5, 2009
Cochran, Wicker help stall $900B stimulus plan
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/5/9 Mississippi’s Republican senators have helped stall a $900 billion stimulus plan promoted by Democrats and the White House. Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker reject the plan for spending hundreds of billions on public works and construction projects as well as increase funding for Medicaid – the government health plan for the…
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February 5, 2009
ID bill splits House Dems
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 2/5/9 The Mississippi House’s Democratic governing coalition is composed of almost an equal division of black and white members. On some issues, though fewer in recent years, the interests of the black and white members of that governing coalition are not one in the same. Perhaps there is no current…
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February 5, 2009
Healthy children
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 2/5/9 Congress passed and President Obama on Wednesday signed a reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which provides health insurance coverage for 11 million disadvantaged children nationwide and about 85,000 children in Mississippi. An additional 119,000 children are eligible for coverage in Mississippi, and the newly enacted…
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February 5, 2009
4 media groups get OK to see Balducci-Patterson letters
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 2/4/9 Four media organizations, including the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, got the OK today to examine letters written to the U.S. District Court about the last defendants to be sentenced in the judicial bribery scheme known as “Scruggs I.” Senior Judge Neal Biggers Jr. granted the examination to begin at…
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February 5, 2009
Simpson Co. supes to appear before judge about Diaz
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/5/9 A chancery judge has ordered Simpson County supervisors to appear before him next week to discuss his order to hire former state Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz as a Youth Court public defender. “He told the chancery clerk to have us there at 8:30 a.m. on next Wednesday, Feb. 11,” supervisors’ President…
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February 5, 2009
Miss. tax revenue off $90M
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/5/9 A multimillion dollar shortfall in Mississippi’s current budget is growing, up nearly $26 million from last month, but state agencies don’t appear to be in imminent danger of further cuts. Gov. Haley Barbour and his staff “continue to monitor the tax receipts with an eye on the budget,” Barbour spokesman Dan Turner…
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February 5, 2009
Grand opening of Old Capitol Museum
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/5/9 Top line: The Old Capitol Museum’s grand opening is Saturday. There, for the first time, the general public gets a good look at the $16 million repair, restoration and renovation that’s put the state’s most historic building back on the attraction map. The museum now tells the 1839 building’s own story, from…
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February 5, 2009
Taylor wants info on AFRH
The Sun Herald, 2/4/9 U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor wants to know more about the sale of federal property to Gulfport Mayor Brent Warr and his father, he says in a letter written Tuesday to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. “I write to express my concerns about the acquisition and subsequent sale of real property of…
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June 4, 2026
Average U.S. long-term mortgage rate falls to 6.48%, retreating from its highest level in 9 months
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Frank Corder
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June 4, 2026
Governor Reeves elected States’ Co-Chair for the Delta Regional Authority
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Frank Corder
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June 4, 2026
Increased penalties for juvenile firearm-related crimes takes effect July 1 in Mississippi
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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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Alistair Begg
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June 4, 2026
The lie of isolation
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Richelle Putnam
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June 3, 2026
America’s sound rises again: Jimmie Rodgers Festival breaks attendance records in Meridian
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Alistair Begg
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June 3, 2026
An opportunity to learn
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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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Hunter Estes
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June 2, 2026
Mississippi needs the success sequence
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Haley Fisackerly
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June 1, 2026
Two billion reasons why Mississippi and Entergy are proving data centers can provide power customers real savings
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