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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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January 23, 2009
House bill to put elected PSC members over staff
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/23/9 Mississippi consumers will be better served by a reorganization of the state agency in charge of utility issues, according to supporters of legislation that cleared the House on Thursday. But opponents said revamping the Public Utilities Staff is unnecessary and will rob the agency of its ability to independently evaluate issues such…
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January 23, 2009
School budgets: It’s state support or taxes
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 1/23/9 The national recession has impacted everyone, requiring cutbacks and sacrifices. When budget cuts are required of all state government functions, it seems fair and equitable. But state budget cuts have a way of trickling down, and in the case of local schools, it becomes more than just inconvenience. All state government…
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January 23, 2009
Balducci, Patterson sentence date set
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 1/23/9 Admitted judicial bribery conspirators Timothy Balducci and Steven A. Patterson will know Feb. 13 if federal prison time is in their futures. The date for the sentencing by U.S. District Senior Judge Neal Biggers Jr. was announced Thursday. It’s the culmination of the judicial bribery drama now known as…
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January 23, 2009
‘Acupuncture Day’ today at Miss. Capitol
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/22/9 Seeking support for licensed acupuncturists to practice in the state, members of the Mississippi Oriental Medicine Association will hold “Acupuncture Day at the Capitol” today until 5 p.m. Mississippi is one of five states that does not allow licensed acupuncturists to practice, according to Dennis Holmes of MOMA. Laws in Alabama and…
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January 23, 2009
Relationship advice: This spring’s key player-coach partnerships (Dan Mullen)
Relationship advice: This spring’s key player-coach partnerships Too often we see the glam instead of the guts. Position coaches never get enough credit, yet their specific work is more important than any game day decision made by a head coach. Here are five key position coach-player relationships that must develop this spring: 1. Florida quarterbacks…
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June 2, 2026
Restored emergency services in Smith County cares for over 3,200 patients in first year
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Matt O'Brien, Associated Press
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June 2, 2026
Trump signs an executive order to vet top AI models for national security risks
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Jeremy Pittari
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June 2, 2026
Mississippi College now Mississippi Christian University
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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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Meredith Biesinger
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June 2, 2026
Discovering history at the Shiloh National Military Park Corinth Interpretive Center
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Alistair Begg
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June 2, 2026
Abraham’s hope
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Eric Olson, Associated Press
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June 1, 2026
Offensive mastermind Mike Leach, who died in 2022, heads ballot for College Football Hall of Fame
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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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Kelley Williams
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June 1, 2026
Blissful ignorance vs. mistakes of omission
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