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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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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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September 18, 2026
Lawmakers say Ag Commissioner order on excused school absences is non-binding
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September 18, 2026
House lawmakers exploring ways to cut Mississippi property taxes, car tag fees
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Cass Rutledge
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September 18, 2026
Industrial Timber expanding its Ripley operations with $2.6 million investment
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Frank Corder
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September 15, 2026
Hitachi Energy brings largest U.S. investment to date to Mississippi
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Frank Corder
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September 10, 2026
General Atomics announced second expansion this year, bringing 125 more jobs to Shannon
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Frank Corder
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September 10, 2026
C Spire expanding fiber network with new high-capacity corridor between Jackson and Olive Branch
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Brett Martel, Associated Press
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September 18, 2026
Kiffin’s return to face the program he spurned looms over No. 7 LSU’s visit to No. 8 Ole Miss
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Susan Marquez
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September 18, 2026
Acclaimed graphic novelist John Jennings to lead weeklong residency at The MAX
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Alistair Begg
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September 18, 2026
Preparing for death
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Sid Salter
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September 16, 2026
Despite many statutory protections, there is no clear constitutional right to clean water
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Russ Latino
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September 15, 2026
Sydney Sweeney Novig Ad: Body positivity’s double standard
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Merle Flowers
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September 10, 2026
Mississippi does not have pharmacies to spare
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