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January 24, 2009
SALTERBLOG – Chancery Judge Larry Buffington strikes again
Chancery Judge Larry Buffington strikes again When I heard the news that Chancery Judge Larry Buffington of Collins had ordered the Simpson County Board of Supervisors to hire defeated former state Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz as a Simpson County Youth Court public defender, I wasn’t at all surprised. Buffington told the Clarion-Ledger that he…
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January 24, 2009
MCDANIEL – Voter ID inspires public faith in the integrity of elections
Voter ID inspires public faith in the integrity of elections Simply put, implementation of Voter ID would inspire public faith in the integrity of elections and encourage voter participation, while protecting the civil rights of those whose votes would be artificially diluted by the criminal acts of others. Speaking of criminal acts, in the next…
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January 24, 2009
Michael Watson eVideo Update 012209
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January 24, 2009
Billy Hewes eVideo update 012209
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January 24, 2009
YP – More info on PSC/Entergy fight
I found a couple of new tidbits of data. First, I found some of the Drabinski data. It is not “Entergy” specific, but it does show the complexity of the transactions. Hopefully, if the PSC has the meat of the testimony in hand, they’ll release it online. I know of at least one person that…
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January 24, 2009
YP – HB 1383 – Wasn’t the tobacco tax supposed to support Medicaid/public health and not education?
Forgive me if my compass is a bit off, but (courtesy of the YallPolitics Memory Division) wasn’t the whole rationale of raising tobacco taxes because tobacco costs the public health system so much money and therefore the tobacco tax would offset Medicaid expenditures? Now we hear that the House is plotting to use the tobacco…
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January 24, 2009
McLemore won’t seek reelection
McLemore won’t seek reelection Jackson City Council President Leslie Burl McLemore announced this morning that he will not seek reelection to represent Ward 2. McLemore, 68, has served on the council since April 1999. “Working with the city council over the last 10 years has been one of the highlights of my life,” McLemore said…
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January 24, 2009
YP – Informers! Informers? That’s how they describe Patterson/Balducci? Are they kidding?
Amazingly, some brain surgeon editor at the AP attached the following headline announcing the sentencing date for Steve “Jabba the Hut” Patterson and Timothy Balducci . . .
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January 23, 2009
House votes to restore education funds
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 1/23/9 By an overwhelming 82-37 vote Thursday, the state House restored a large portion of the education funds that were cut last week by Gov. Haley Barbour. The bill provides $68 million to the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, which provides the basics of operating local school districts. Last week the…
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January 23, 2009
Judge: Melton trial still set to be held on Feb. 2
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/23/9 Five months and three delays later, the federal civil rights trial of Jackson Mayor Frank Melton appears back on track. “There are no pending motions for a continuance,” U.S. District Judge Dan Jordan said in an order posted Thursday, “and absent such a motion from Defendant Melton, the case will proceed as…
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January 23, 2009
Diaz ordered to Simpson job
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/23/9 Former state Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz Jr. has been appointed as a Simpson County Youth Court public defender, though the county doesn’t have enough money set aside to pay him. A chancery judge ordered that Diaz, who lost a re-election bid last year, be given the job. Diaz, a former appeals…
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January 23, 2009
Funds run out but 2 special judges stay
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/23/9 Although the original funding has run out, two of the four part-time special Hinds County Circuit judges appointed to help clear the county’s voluminous criminal docket will remain on the bench. One judge has even agreed to donate time to help clear cases. At the end of 2008, 2,283 felony criminal cases…
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February 24, 2026
Miss. Dept. of Education presents K-12 Workforce Development Plan
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February 24, 2026
Trump will lay out his midterm agenda at the State of the Union
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February 24, 2026
Hinds Co. Supervisors urged to support public defender funding
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February 23, 2026
Supreme Court agrees to hear from oil and gas companies trying to block climate change lawsuits
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Frank Corder
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February 18, 2026
Firehawk Aerospace establishing manufacturing operations in Crawford
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Daniel Tyson
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February 13, 2026
Billions in new economic development projects in the works for Mississippi in 2026
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Meredith Biesinger
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February 24, 2026
The Painted Lady: A Victorian Mississippi beauty made for memories
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February 24, 2026
Show no partiality
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February 23, 2026
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February 23, 2026
Trump lashes out at Supreme Court as under “foreign influence”
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February 23, 2026
Mississippi’s independent workers deserve better. House Bill 1072 is the answer
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February 23, 2026
Why I am for all students, not just those in my public schools
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