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August 28, 2008
GOP Chair Brad White’s LTE on Tyrone Ellis/Billy McCoy DNC travel scandal – calls for MS Auditor
Dear Editor, I read with agreement your recent editorial (“House travel needs checking” 08/27/2008) regarding the Mississippi Travelgate in the House of Representatives. Mississippians do not pay taxes to fund political vacations for our legislators. The Mississippi Treasury is not the Billy McCoy Travel Agency. Democrat Representative Tyrone Ellis from Starkville was elected to represent…
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August 28, 2008
TATEDEMOCRAT – House travel needs checking in Rep. Tyrone Ellis/Billy McCoy DNC travel scandal
House travel needs checking At least two members of the Mississippi House of Representatives have filed letters requesting more information about House travel expenditures in the wake of what many consider Mississippi’s own “Travelgate.” The controversy involves the use of taxpayer money to finance a House member’s trip to a political convention under the guise…
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August 28, 2008
Ruling expected soon on Barbour’s Medicaid plan
At a hearing this morning, attorneys representing nearly 40 hospitals told Hinds County Judge William Singletary the plan violates his previous ruling. In July, Singletary ruled that the Republican governor cannot bypass lawmakers to raise hospital taxes to pay for Medicaid. A private attorney hired by Barbour’s office said the hospitals’ legal challenge is premature,…
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August 27, 2008
Quite a Talent Show….College Football Baby
Quite a Talent Show….College Football Baby Far too often, the college football season is taken hostage by coaches. Or rather, it’s co-opted by the obsessive attention devoted to coaches — to Urban Meyer and where he’s going next; to Mike Gundy and his rants about manhood; to Charlie Weis, even though he’s coming off a…
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August 27, 2008
Strahan Decides to Stay a Retired Giant
Strahan Decides to Stay a Retired Giant Michael Strahan, whom the Giants considered wooing out of retirement after Osi Umenyiora sustained a season-ending knee injury last Saturday night, has decided to remain retired, preferring to stay in the broadcast booth. Strahan’s decision was reported by Fox Sports, for whom Strahan will be a studio analyst.…
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August 27, 2008
State Farm claims adjuster finally talks
After refusing to answer policyholders’ questions for almost two years, a State Farm claims manager accused of mishandling Katrina claims has talked to the Mississippi Insurance Department for a market conduct study of the company and also is prepared to testify in policyholder cases. MID’s long-awaited and overdue market conduct study of how the company…
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August 27, 2008
Happy to be back, The Dash kicks off the season
Happy to be back, The Dash kicks off the season Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (Phil Fulmer subpoena sold separately): Greetings, face painters! After 20 football-free days in China, The Dash is thrilled to see you! The Olympics are tremendous and all, but there are drawbacks compared to the…
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August 27, 2008
Breaking the huddle on a new season, neutral sites and a key hidden stat
Breaking the huddle on a new season, neutral sites and a key hidden stat Topsy hooked up with turvy for the entire 2007 college football season, and those crazy kids first met a year ago this weekend at the Big House. Appalachian State took its spread and its quickness and humiliated Michigan. Little did anyone…
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August 27, 2008
Gallo Notes: “Union Workers’ Wallets Labor For Childers”
Gallo Notes-August 27, 2008 Wall Street Journal-“ One of the most underreported stories at this week’s Democratic National Convention is that Big Labor is making a big comeback.” The article is called, “Big Labor’s Comeback” and it is worth reading. The battleground ledger in Mississippi has two names above the long list of Union contributions…
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August 27, 2008
Legal challenge against governor’s Medicaid plan intensifies
The Clarion-Ledger, 8/27/8 Fourteen Senate Democrats have joined the legal challenge of Gov. Haley Barbour’s latest plan to pay for Medicaid with a higher hospital tax and cut in provider payments. In court documents added Tuesday, they argue that only lawmakers can decide how state programs are funded. “The circumstance that the legislative process has…
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August 27, 2008
Mabus hitting campaign trail for Obama
The Clarion-Ledger, 8/27/8 Former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus has tackled the job of helping Barack Obama win the White House with the same zeal and determination that he brought to his effort to reform Mississippi politics. One of a couple of dozen surrogates for the likely Democratic presidential nominee, Mabus is making the rounds of…
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August 27, 2008
City budget: Priority is clear, hire more police!
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 8/27/8 As throughout his administration, Jackson Mayor Frank Melton has shown himself inadequate to the task of presenting a meaningful budget. The City Council, again, is going to have to step in and build a budget from scratch. It’s nothing new, though. The first year Melton was in office, you may recall,…
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Frank Corder
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October 5, 2026
Congresswoman Waters a no show at Crump, Wells’ parents press conference in California
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Jeremy Pittari
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October 5, 2026
AP test participation up 16.2% over prior year in Mississippi
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Frank Corder
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October 5, 2026
Lawmakers hear FY 2028 budget requests from state agencies
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Cass Rutledge
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October 2, 2026
Gasifier manufacturer Janus Organization bringing 13 jobs to Greenwood
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Cass Rutledge
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October 1, 2026
Tech entrepreneur turns Hurricane Katrina tragedy into company to preserve family memories
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Cass Rutledge
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September 30, 2026
Mississippi 12th in U.S. for doing business in 2026
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October 5, 2026
In focus: Sights from Mississippi State vs. Alabama
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Robert St. John
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October 5, 2026
Seven helicopters, 935 Greek salads, and 24 friends
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Matt Friedeman
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October 5, 2026
Paralyzed by fear? Jesus has an answer for that
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Roger Wicker
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September 28, 2026
Putin must be defeated
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Sid Salter
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September 23, 2026
Midterm elections in Mississippi shaping up as a familiar exercise in black-and-white
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Bill Cork
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September 22, 2026
The states winning investment are the states ready to deliver
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