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June 21, 2008
YP – The continued attempt to ‘buff-up’ jailed felon Paul Minor
Courtesy of our friends at Slabbed (who apparently never met a criminal they didn’t like), we find this Legal Schnauzer article, which quotes from controversial “retired” bishop-turned-courtroom-advocate-for-his-buddies, Bishop Joe Doss. From Mr. Doss’s legal/theological thinktank . . . Statement of Bishop Joe Doss of Free America’s Political Prisoners: It should be abhorrent to every American…
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June 21, 2008
Rigsby gals trailer lawyer attorney-less in so called ‘whistle-blower’ case
Rigsbys attorney-less in whistle-blower case U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr. today gave two former Katrina claims adjusters 45 days to find new attorneys in their whistle-blower lawsuit against State Farm. Senter refused to reinstate two Missouri law firms that had represented sisters Cori and Kerri Rigsby, who filed a whistle-blower lawsuit against State Farm…
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June 21, 2008
SH – Judge: Scruggs letters public record
Judge: Scruggs letters public record Letters asking for leniency for lawyer Dickie Scruggs and two others soon to be sentenced for conspiracy to bribe a state judge will be made public, a federal judge ruled today. U.S. District Judge Neal B. Biggers Jr. said the newspaper’s motion was “well taken,” and that he had not…
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June 21, 2008
FOLO – Biggers grants SunHerald’s motion to make Scruggs ‘good boy’ letters public
Those letters on Scruggs sentencing will be public record Judge Biggers has granted the Sun Herald motion to examine the sentencing letters in the Scruggs cases. He announces that they will be available for the Sun Herald to review next Wednesday afternoon. FOLO 6/20/8
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June 21, 2008
Obama criticizes McCain on offshore drilling
Obama criticizes McCain on offshore drilling Barack Obama on Friday dismissed rival John McCain’s proposal to allow offshore drilling as an election-year conversion, arguing that it will not lower gas prices for families “this year, next year, five years from now.” The likely Democratic nominee pledged to keep in place the federal government’s 27-year moratorium…
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June 21, 2008
SH – Rigsbys attorney-less in whistle-blower case
Rigsbys attorney-less in whistle-blower case U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr. today gave two former Katrina claims adjusters 45 days to find new attorneys in their whistle-blower lawsuit against State Farm. Senter refused to reinstate two Missouri law firms that had represented sisters Cori and Kerri Rigsby, who filed a whistle-blower lawsuit against State Farm…
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June 20, 2008
Physicians group decries Medicaid funding stalemate
The Clarion-Ledger, 6/20/8 A special session to address Medicaid funding likely will resume next week with an impasse between Gov. Haley Barbour and House leaders, despite a meeting Thursday intended to reach a compromise. Discussions between House and Senate leaders are expected to continue. A group representing physicians statewide blasted the standoff that has resulted…
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June 20, 2008
YP – More bad news in the Scruggs legal maneuvering empire
Dickie et. al. sufferred two more setbacks that I don’t have time to opine on, but I will just put out there. Yesterday, Judge Senter ruled against the Trailer Lawyers (AGAIN!). Today, in the McIntosh case, Judge Senter upheld a Magistrate Court ruling that Dickie and Zach would be compelled for discovery. Basically, now that…
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June 20, 2008
Melton and Council Still at Odds over Summer Jobs
WLBT, 6/19/8 Jackson Mayor Frank Melton says his summer jobs program is back on track, though the city council would disagree. The City of Ridgeland has paid Jackson $1.2 million in arrears for service from the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, and the mayor wants to use some of that cash to employ 300 teenagers.…
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June 20, 2008
Council rejects Melton’s jobs plan
The Clarion-Ledger, 6/18/8 In an emotionally charged atmosphere Tuesday night, Mayor Frank Melton accused City Council members of callous indifference to the plight of young people, and council members bickered over the financial strength of the city. But after more than an hour of debate and political grandstanding, the mayor’s plan to spend up to…
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June 20, 2008
Legislative pay: Should not be politically hot
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 6/20/8 The required annual report on legislative pay is out, which usually brings on criticism of how much public officials are paid. For the record, state taxpayers were paid about $19 million to operate the Legislature last year, which includes pay and travel for the 174 members of the Legislature, legislative staff,…
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June 20, 2008
Medicaid: Tensions rising, solutions still elusive
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 6/20/8 After closed-door meetings Thursday between Gov. Haley Barbour, Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant, House Speaker Billy McCoy and Senate and House leaders in the trenches of the ongoing battle to fund a $90 million Medicaid deficit, leaders emerged using words like “progress” and “optimism.” But it is obvious that as the June…
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Frank Corder
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April 28, 2026
Congressmen from Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana seek expansion of Gulf state boundaries
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April 28, 2026
U.S. consumer confidence inches higher in April despite Iran war, soaring gasoline prices
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Daniel Tyson
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April 28, 2026
City of Jackson wants federal court to block new water authority
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Frank Corder
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April 23, 2026
Mississippi companies invited to participate in 2026 Southeastern U.S.–Canadian Provinces Conference
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Frank Corder
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April 22, 2026
Corderill investing $100 million at Meridian data center campus
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Frank Corder
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April 17, 2026
Walmart announces plan to remodel 19 Mississippi stores
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Meredith Biesinger
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April 28, 2026
AlleyKat Ceramics: Where a Singapore alley led to a Gulf Coast creative haven
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Alistair Begg
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April 28, 2026
Inheriting the kingdom
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Robert St. John
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April 27, 2026
Between the Arctic and Africa
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Roger Wicker
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April 24, 2026
Finish the job In Iran, but don’t forget China
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Lesley Davis
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April 23, 2026
He Didn’t Even Hesitate: Mississippi’s Jake Mangum, America’s pastime, and the culture that still unites us
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Kelley Williams
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April 23, 2026
An ounce of prevention
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