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January 22, 2009
Thrown Under The (School) Bus
Thrown Under The (School) Bus The $90 million hospital Medicaid deficit still exists as 2009 dawns. But, nearly everyone (the governor included) now acknowledges that the cigarette tax should and will be raised. You’d guess the hospitals are happy, huh? New tax money will be available to defer the $90 million they’d otherwise have to…
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January 22, 2009
NMC – Scruggs disbarred from federal court
File under, I already thought that had been handled: Scruggs disbarred by ND Miss. For some reason (or no reason?), today the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi disbarred Dickie Scruggs, in an order signed by Judge Mills. This is of course an automatic consequence of the conviction and state disbarment.…
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January 22, 2009
Pro-card check resolution HCR25 gets sniffed out and gutted by young conservatives
Rep. Jim Evans, who is involved in a state and national capacity with the AFL-CIO, introduced a resolution that called HCR25. Under the rather innocuous auspices of celebrating a “Workers’ Memorial Day” on April 28, the bill had some language slipped in that seemed to try and create some Mississippi legislative blessing for the Employee…
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January 22, 2009
YP-Billy McCoy and Tyrone Ellis fail on rules suspension to strip anti-corruption measures from PSC
Today Jim Hood and Brandon Presley put the screws to House Speaker Billy McCoy who put the screws to Tyrone Ellis. They all tried to put the screws to the House of Representatives, but the Speaker lost the vote. He’s going to try again tomorrow. What issue could be so important that it would be…
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January 22, 2009
University Upgrades Boost Commercial Sector (Impact on college football)
University Upgrades Boost Commercial Sector (Impact on college football) Even as Madison, Wis., suffers arctic-like temperatures, there is a warm ray of hope for the commercial real-estate industry. The city’s academic sector is seeing a building boomlet while developers in other parts of the country slam the brakes on new office buildings, stores and shopping…
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January 22, 2009
Miss. PSC staff revamp advances . . . to a point
Miss. PSC staff revamp advances House Bill 1090 gained approval in the House Public Utilities Committee. The measure would put the Public Utilities Staff under the supervision of the three elected officials who comprise the Public Service Commission. The staff currently is separate from the commission, a setup that Northern District commissioner Brandon Presley has…
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January 21, 2009
Inaugural Minutes: Picking a hardwood Cabinet and bailing out the SEC
Inaugural Minutes: Picking a hardwood Cabinet and bailing out the SEC The Minutes does solemnly swear for the rest of the season to faithfully execute a weekly rundown of 40 names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college basketball. So help me Wooden (1). My fellow Americans, this is a great moment in our…
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January 21, 2009
Obama’s administration begins first Internet-driven presidency
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 1/21/9 Unless you were one of the 164,000-plus people “following” then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama on Twitter during the 2008 presidential campaign or were among his 3.8 million Facebook supporters, this column won’t make as much sense to you as it perhaps should. President Barack Obama officially took the oath…
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January 21, 2009
Mayors get ready for ’09 elections
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 1/20/9 Almost all of Northeast Mississippi’s mayors will have a spot on the ballot in the upcoming municipal elections. Mayors Ed Neelly of Tupelo and Richard Howorth of Oxford are the exceptions; they’ve announced that they will not be seeking another four-year term. No one has qualified yet for the…
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January 21, 2009
Hospitals get insurer funds
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/21/9 Two south Mississippi hospitals have received more than a half million dollars altogether from the liquidation of a Pearl-based health care insurer accused in 2004 of failing to pay over $800,000 in medical claims. Gulfport Memorial Hospital has received $482,569 and Singing River Hospital in Pascagoula was given a check for $72,825…
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January 21, 2009
Miss. schools trying to trim fat from lean budgets
The Sun Herald, 1/21/9 Barbour has ordered a 3.2 percent budget cut for the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, the formula used to determine how much money each of the state’s 152 districts receives. The governor cut all state agencies’ budgets last week, saying Mississippi’s tax collections will be short between $175 million and $310 million…
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January 21, 2009
Barbour thanks Bush, encourages Obama
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 1/21/9 Around 11 a.m. Tuesday, the halls of the Mississippi Capitol were unusually quiet considering the Legislature was in session. Normally at that time of day, the halls are bustling with lobbyists, legislators and others on state government business. On Tuesday, though, they weren’t. But a little after the top…
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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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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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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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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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