Skip to content
News
Business
Culture
Opinion
Issues
About
Who We Are
Our Approach
Staff & Contributors
Sponsorship
Y’all Archive
Search
Donate
News
Opinion
Business
Culture
About Us
Who We Are
Our Approach
Staff & Contributors
Magnolia Tribune
This article was produced by Magnolia Tribune staff.
Culture
|
Magnolia Tribune
•
February 6, 2009
Commentary: Recruiting shows its ugly side
Commentary: Recruiting shows its ugly side The “soft verbal” is a creepy term in the creepy world of the college football recruiting process. It adds to the sleazy nature of the beast that opens its voracious mouth every year on national feeding, er, signing day. It is part of the annual madness of greed and…
Culture
|
Magnolia Tribune
•
February 6, 2009
Kiffin’s mouth earns him a penalty
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=3887550&sportCat=ncf Man-made devices wouldn’t have been able to measure the size of Kiffin’s smirk. Problem is, Kiffin was spectacularly and laughably wrong. He was so wrong that Florida AD Jeremy Foley issued a statement that all but called 33-year-old Kiffin a punk. He was so wrong that SEC commissioner Mike Slive publicly attached Kiffin to…
News
|
Magnolia Tribune
•
February 6, 2009
AG: Council can see records
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/6/9 The Jackson City Council has the weight of the state attorney general’s office behind its efforts to force Mayor Frank Melton to turn over some financial records. The council has clashed with city officials over the right to see Jackson’s 1099 and W-2 forms from 2005 to 2008. The federal tax forms…
News
|
Magnolia Tribune
•
February 6, 2009
Consolidation of school districts to be studied
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/6/9 With a lingering recession and more than $85 million in education budget cuts, consolidating Mississippi’s 152 school districts could get another look. House Education Committee Chairman Cecil Brown, D-Jackson, said he will form a task force to study the issue and make recommendations. Consolidation is “something we’re going to look at,” possibly…
News
|
Magnolia Tribune
•
February 6, 2009
Building permits plunging: Drop in construction hits metro area hard
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/6/9 Officials in Hinds, Madison and Rankin counties are anticipating up to 50 percent less residential and commercial growth this year because of the staggering economy. The decline is an early indicator of a shrinking tax base, lowered demand for construction supplies, fewer jobs and fewer new homes, said Paul Grimes, a professor…
News
|
Magnolia Tribune
•
February 6, 2009
Jackson mayor’s trial may have jury set today
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/6/9 A jury should be seated today in the federal trial of Jackson Mayor Frank Melton, barring unforeseen delays. A fourth grueling day of jury selection ended Thursday with six more potential jurors being disqualified, leaving 43 in the pool, with nine left to interview. “We got through everybody today, so I feel…
Culture
|
Magnolia Tribune
•
February 6, 2009
Shaken, stirred, whatever … it’s all a Molotov martini for Kiffin
Shaken, stirred, whatever … it’s all a Molotov martini for Kiffin Al Davis spent Wednesday calling Lane Kiffin a liar. Thursday, Jeremy Foley called him an idiot. Aww, Laney old sock old shoe, you’re such a playful scamp. Kiffin, whose nose for news has been remarkable since the Oakland Raiders job landed inadvertently (and badly)…
News
|
Magnolia Tribune
•
February 6, 2009
Stimulus: Tax cuts will stimulate jobs, but…
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 2/6/9 Mississippi Republican U.S. Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker have a valid point in stalling the $900 billion economic stimulus plan being pushed by the Obama administration. When Congress and the White House eventually agree on economic stimulus legislation – and they will – that legislation must strike a responsible balance…
News
|
Magnolia Tribune
•
February 6, 2009
Senators say stimulus needs more jobs focus
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 2/6/9 U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said Thursday that any economic stimulus bill should be more targeted at job creation and less expensive to taxpayers. Mississippi’s senior senator, Thad Cochran, had expressed a similar view Monday. As Senate moderates worked toward a trimmed-down version of the House-passed stimulus measure, Wicker…
News
|
Magnolia Tribune
•
February 6, 2009
Cigarette-tax negotiations to begin soon
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 2/6/9 House and Senate leaders are expected to begin negotiations soon over the size of an increase in the cigarette tax. On Thursday with no debate, the House voted to invite negotiations with the Senate on the cigarette tax. The House has proposed increasing the tax by 82 cents to…
News
|
Magnolia Tribune
•
February 6, 2009
GOP govs to Senate: Hold the line
Politico.com, 2/6/9 Several of the GOP’s most prominent governors blasted the stimulus plan making its way through Congress Thursday, urging Senate Republicans to resist passing the bill and taking aim at what they called unnecessary spending in the package. “The legislation currently being considered includes excess spending and impedes states’ abilities to manage their own…
Posts pagination
Prev
1
…
3,144
3,145
3,146
3,147
3,148
…
4,332
Next
News
|
Magnolia Tribune
•
February 6, 2009
Stimulus funds may bypass Miss. gov.
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/5/9 House Speaker Billy McCoy said he is hopeful an amendment to Congress’ stimulus bill will allow Mississippi to accept the federal funds, even if the governor objects. McCoy, speaking at the Capitol this morning, said he is “disturbed by” Gov. Haley Barbour’s apparent reluctance for Mississippi to accept funds from a $900…
News
News
|
Jeremy Pittari
•
September 21, 2026
Statewide assistance program opens for families dealing with opioid abuse
News
|
Clara Turnage
•
September 21, 2026
Student-athletes report need for suicide prevention, training
News
|
Frank Corder
•
September 21, 2026
President Trump welcomes Mississippi’s Reeves, other governors to Oval Office for Medicaid announcement
Business
Business
|
Cass Rutledge
•
September 18, 2026
Industrial Timber expanding its Ripley operations with $2.6 million investment
Business
|
Frank Corder
•
September 15, 2026
Hitachi Energy brings largest U.S. investment to date to Mississippi
Business
|
Frank Corder
•
September 10, 2026
General Atomics announced second expansion this year, bringing 125 more jobs to Shannon
Culture
Culture
|
Magnolia Tribune
•
September 21, 2026
Sights from the Vaught: Ole Miss vs. LSU
Culture
|
Pete Iacobelli, Associated Press
•
September 21, 2026
Taylor’s four TDs rally Mississippi St. from 16-0 down to 41-34 win at South Carolina in SEC opener
Culture
|
Chris Burrows, Associated Press
•
September 21, 2026
Ole Miss’ Trinidad Chambliss says win over Lane Kiffin and LSU ‘meant more than other games’
Opinion
Opinion
|
Lesley Davis
•
September 21, 2026
The war on women’s spaces has reached the sorority house
Opinion
|
Sid Salter
•
September 16, 2026
Despite many statutory protections, there is no clear constitutional right to clean water
Opinion
|
Russ Latino
•
September 15, 2026
Sydney Sweeney Novig Ad: Body positivity’s double standard
All the latest delivered to your inbox!
Name
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Email
(Required)
By joining our newsletter, you are confirming that you agree with the
Privacy Policy
Cat Title
|
Author
•
Date
Title Placeholder
