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August 11, 2008
WSJ – Cigarette Tax Burnout
Cigarette Tax Burnout Maryland is only the latest state to prove the folly of trying to finance government with a tax on a shrinking pool of smokers. In New York City and State, tobacco taxes have been raised so many times that the retail cost can exceed $9 a pack — about double the national…
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August 11, 2008
Reports: Political clout swayed bio lab
The Clarion-Ledger, 8/11/8 The Homeland Security Department swept aside evaluations of government experts and named Mississippi – home to powerful U.S. lawmakers with sway over the agency – as a top location for a new $451 million, national laboratory to study some of the world’s most virulent biological threats, according to internal documents obtained by…
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August 11, 2008
Hospitals’ attorney says plan is illegal
The Sun Herald, 8/10/8 Gov. Haley Barbour’s plan to pay for Medicaid violates state and federal laws, according to attorneys for nearly 40 hospitals. The hospitals have not legally challenged the proposal that would increase their taxes, cut Medicaid reimbursements and replace the cuts with federal money associated with the health care program. But they…
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August 11, 2008
Surprised? Not even enough to fake it
The Sun Herald, 8/10/8 You know how I hate to say “I told you so,” but it looks like I was on the money when I said a legislative bill early this year was “one to watch… . Especially if some particular lawmaker were to later be appointed to the Parole Board, despite having given…
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August 11, 2008
Davis eyes round 2 in election for 1st District
The Clarion-Ledger, 8/11/8 He’s reorganizing his staff, apologizing for the tone of previous campaigns and hoping a higher turnout boosts the GOP’s chances of reclaiming northeast Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District in November. But political analysts say it’ll be a challenge for Southaven Mayor Greg Davis to topple Travis Childers, the former Prentiss County chancery clerk…
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August 11, 2008
Farish project: ‘Wait and see’
The Clarion-Ledger, 8/10/8 With construction on Farish Street set to start as early as October, some of the new tenants could include a comedy club, a gospel music venue and museum and a blues club. Local developer David Watkins, now a partner in the project, said big names such as Morgan Freeman, B.B. King and…
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August 11, 2008
Wicker must win big in 1st District to beat Musgrove
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 8/10/8 The matchup between Roger Wicker and Ronnie Musgrove is the first competitive U.S. Senate race in Mississippi in 20 years. This is a state that changes senators very rarely; we’d had only two transitions in the last 65 years before Gov. Haley Barbour appointed Wicker last Dec. 31…
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August 11, 2008
Earmarks divide Musgrove, Wicker
The Sun Herald, 8/10/8 Fighting earmarks has been a major part of Democratic Senate hopeful Ronnie Musgrove’s platform, as he accuses his opponent, interim Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, of peddling pork and contributing to a ballooning national debt. But the Wicker campaign, as well as one political watcher, contend Mississippi, often referred to as…
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August 11, 2008
Judge under further scrutiny
The Clarion-Ledger, 8/10/8 Mississippi’s judicial watchdog group is examining another case involving Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter – this one about his handling of a manslaughter case involving the death of a motorist. DeLaughter is already temporarily suspended from the bench, pending review by the Judicial Performance Commission, on a bribery allegation involving a…
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August 11, 2008
NRSC lets loose on Musgrove – hits on deficit, jobs, Beef Plant and Dickie Scruggs/Paul Minor
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August 11, 2008
AJC on Beef Plant – First, pre-heat oven to 425 degrees: A recipe for ‘cooking the books’
First, pre-heat oven to 425 degrees: A recipe for ‘cooking the books’ The Facility Group, its chairman/CEO Robert L. Moultrie, chief operating officer Nixon Cawood and executive vice president Charles Morehead are alleged to have made illegal campaign donations to win the contract for a state-backed beef plant in Mississippi. The company then inflated costs…
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August 11, 2008
A must read for anyone planning to attend a Saints or any other NFL game for now on
A must read for anyone planning to attend a Saints or any other NFL game for now on The NFL just sent out a press release concerning a crackdown on rowdy fan behavior. If I were any fan going to the Louisiana Superdome or anywhere else throughout the league, I’d read this if I were…
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Jeremy Pittari
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September 9, 2025
Legislators to consider another round of teacher, assistant teacher pay raises
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Jeremy Pittari
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September 9, 2025
Mississippi State Health Officer touts importance of vaccine mandates after Florida roll back
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Daniel Tyson
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September 9, 2025
NAACP alleges state withheld millions that could have helped Jackson’s water system
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Paul Wiseman, Associated Press
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September 5, 2025
Hiring stalls with US companies reluctant to expand in an uncertain economic landscape
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Lynne Jeter
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September 3, 2025
Hood Industries invests $245 million in Waynesboro expansion
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Lynne Jeter
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August 29, 2025
Tri-state partnership boosts South’s automaker bid
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Associated Press
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September 9, 2025
Mississippi State fined $500,000 by SEC for field storming following against Arizona State
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Meredith Biesinger
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September 9, 2025
Mississippi’s Two Museums: Step inside, feel the story
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Alistair Begg
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September 9, 2025
What are you waiting for?
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Russ Latino
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September 8, 2025
Do we have to ‘distrust the science’ to Make America Healthy Again?
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Russ Latino
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September 7, 2025
The race for U.S. Senate in 2026 may get ugly, but the result is almost certain
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Roger Wicker
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September 5, 2025
Taiwan has resolved to live free
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