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January 7, 2009
Is Meyer about to surpass Spurrier as greatest Florida Gators coach?
Is Meyer about to surpass Spurrier as greatest Florida Gators coach? MIAMI — Imagine a celebration late Thursday evening. Imagine it is University of Florida players who are dancing. And imagine the television cameras panning toward the bleachers where a fan holds this sign: Urban Meyer: Greatest Gator Football Coach Ever! Do you smile, and…
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January 7, 2009
Electricity prices go down despite Jim Hood lawsuit
Lower Fuel Costs Shrink Entergy Mississippi Bills Nearly 14 Percent Reduction effective through first quarter of 2009 Jackson, Miss. – Thanks to a continued decline in natural gas prices, customers of Entergy Mississippi, Inc. will ring in the new year with lower electric bills. From January through March, the typical residential bill will drop another…
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January 7, 2009
LOA – Scruggs II: Ed Peters Surrenders Law License, Forfeits Alleged Bribe Proceeds
Scruggs II: Ed Peters Surrenders Law License, Forfeits Alleged Bribe Proceeds The Daily Journal has more here on the underlying complaint. Nothing has been announced yet, but it’s apparent that Peters has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. This means that the hammer is about to drop on Judge Bobby DeLaughter and (again) on…
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January 7, 2009
More Funding Proposed For Crime Lab
More Funding Proposed For Crime Lab “Both the defense bar and prosecutors agree that we have to do something to fix our crime lab,” said Jim Hood. Hood formed a task force to study Mississippi’s crime lab and compare it to labs in neighboring states. The task force recommends the state double its funding to…
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January 7, 2009
NMC – Ed Peters day kicks off Scruggs II (summarizing a confusing day of posts)
Ed Peters day kicks off Scruggs II (summarizing a confusing day of posts) The drama started first thing with WLBT in Jackson reporting that Ed Peters had surrendered his law license. As we noted in an update to the post reporting the WLBT account, YallPolitics quickly put up the docket entry from the Mississippi Supreme…
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January 7, 2009
SALTER – Bryant to face growing scrutiny from within GOP right wing
Bryant to face growing scrutiny from within GOP right wing While still maintaining an extremely cordial public relationship with the Barbour administration, it’s undeniable that Bryant faces the delicate task of slowly beginning to cut Barbour loose and push his own political agenda in the Senate if he is to seize the mantle of leadership…
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January 7, 2009
Metro area has money wish list
Metro area has money wish list Here’s the breakdown of state and federal requests: Jackson The city is asking for about $560 million from the federal government for infrastructure projects but so far has a lone item on its state wish list. The city wants the option to raise the sales tax by 1 percent.…
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January 7, 2009
Councilman: Mayor has fluid in his lungs
Councilman: Mayor has fluid in his lungs Mayor Frank Melton returned to the hospital over the weekend after complaining that fluid had built up in his lungs, making it difficult to breathe, Councilman Frank Bluntson said Tuesday. Bluntson, along with Melton’s family physician, Dr. Robert Smith, drove the mayor to St. Dominic Hospital on Saturday.…
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January 7, 2009
Jerry Mitchell piece on Ed Peters and Bobby DeLaughter
Ex-DA turns in license Former longtime Hinds County District Attorney Ed Peters, identified as a participant in an alleged bribery scheme, has turned in his bar license in a move legal experts say suggests he has struck a deal. Federal authorities are investigating allegations he schemed with associates of imprisoned former lawyer Dickie Scruggs to…
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January 7, 2009
Dynasty, coaching legend on the line for Meyer
Dynasty, coaching legend on the line for Meyer Back in the mid-1990s Gary Barnett led Northwestern to its first Rose Bowl appearance since, well, Chicago was considered northwestern. At the time, Barnett was relatively young and unquestionably dynamic, and so he became a coveted attraction on the banquet circuit. A fixture of the Barnett speech…
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January 7, 2009
YP – US moves to seize $425,000 in Ed Peters ill-gotten gains . . . on 12/31!
Only in the Dickie Scruggs world can the United States Government actually sue $425,000 in cash. But it has happened. Complaint Subsequent Order In the case styled 3:08CV137, the US Government vs. $425,000 in US Currency, the US Attorney filed on New Year’s Eve to seize it after it had been forfeited by Ed Peters,…
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January 7, 2009
DJ – U.S. wants money it claims Joey Langston transferred to Ed Peters in plot
BREAKING NEWS: U.S. wants money it claims Langston transferred to Peters in plot Former Hinds district attorney Edward J. Peters is formally accused of conspiring to corrupt a sitting Mississippi circuit judge in a U.S. District Court document filed Dec. 31, the Daily Journal has learned. The document came to light Tuesday in a records…
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February 23, 2026
IHL approves new degree programs, Center on Collegiate Gambling at Ole Miss
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Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press
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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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Daniel Tyson
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February 23, 2026
Wingate allows JXN Water to raise rates by 12% “as a survival measure”
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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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Frank Corder
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February 12, 2026
Camgian awarded position on Golden Dome Team
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Robert St. John
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February 23, 2026
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Matt Friedeman
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February 23, 2026
Lent places before us Jesus’ challenge
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Alistair Begg
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February 23, 2026
Responses to the King
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Philip Wegmann
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February 23, 2026
Trump lashes out at Supreme Court as under “foreign influence”
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Justan Rice
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February 23, 2026
Mississippi’s independent workers deserve better. House Bill 1072 is the answer
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Laurie Cox
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February 23, 2026
Why I am for all students, not just those in my public schools
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