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February 14, 2008
State economy looks better than the U.S. version: MSU planner
The Commercial Dispatch, 2/13/8 Mississippi’s economy is expected to outpace the U.S. economy this year – though just marginally. But the state is still on the uphill climb when it comes to population retention, education and job disbursement, said Dr. Phil Hardwick, coordinator of capacity development at the John C. Stennis Institute of Government and…
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February 14, 2008
Top Third District candidates spar at Republican forum in Noxapater
Neshoba Democrat, 2/13/8 Four of the leading Republican candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives in Mississippi’s Third Congressional District met at a catfish house here beside Mississippi 15 on Monday night for a political forum that focused on illegal immigration, the Iraq war and the economy. The candidates spent about an hour on the…
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February 14, 2008
Hurt suspends campaign in 1st District
The Sun Herald, 2/14/8 Democrat Ken Hurt says he has dropped out of the campaign in Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District. Hurt, 71, was one of five people running for the Democratic nomination in the 1st District in the March 11 election. Hurt’s decision, however, comes too late for his name to be removed from the…
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February 14, 2008
Secretary of Education to speak in Jackson
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/13/8 U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings will speak at the Mississippi Board of Education meeting at 9 a.m. Thursday in the fourth floor board room in the Central High School Building, 359 N. West St. in Jackson. She will discuss the No Child Left Behind Act and will announce a school improvement…
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February 14, 2008
McCain legacy runs deep in Mississippi
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 2/14/8 The possibility now of a John McCain presidency causes me to recall that three generations of John S. McCains, starting with the grandfather back in World War II, have in different ways crossed my personal life track. Scruggs and McCain had become close the previous year when Scruggs and…
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February 14, 2008
Senate approves deficit bill
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/14/8 Senators on Wednesday approved a bill that would put the state prison system in the black for the current year but leave 15 Community Mental Health Centers still in need. Also, Senate Bill 3051 covers less than a third of Medicaid’s $90 million money shortage, setting the stage for a battle in…
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February 14, 2008
Legislators Trying To Get Current State Budget In Shape
WLOX, 2/13/8 Mississippi lawmakers are taking steps to plug holes in the current state budget for Medicaid, community mental health centers and several other programs. Appropriations Chairman Alan Nunnelee, R-Tupelo, told the Senate that any dollar spent in the current year, which ends June 30, is a dollar that will not be available for the…
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February 14, 2008
Booze after hours on radar
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/14/8 Bargoers and police officers working the late shift stream into her down-home place – Sylvia’s – off of Medgar Evers Boulevard for catfish, pork chops, shrimp, burgers and wings. She offers beer, but some either pass or bring a bagged drink. The atmosphere of her after-hours restaurant will change if Jackson Police…
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February 14, 2008
State hogs funding of earmarks
The Sun Herald, 2/14/8 We’re No. 1! Mississippi lawmakers ranked first in the House and in the Senate in a comprehensive study of earmarks being released today by Taxpayers for Common Sense, a group sharply critical of the practice. That gives Mississippi Republicans Sen. Thad Cochran and Sen. Roger Wicker, formerly a congressman, a dubious…
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February 14, 2008
Taylor votes against plan
The Hattiesburg American, 2/13/8 President Bush is expected to sign an economic stimulus bill Wednesday that will give thousands of Mississippi taxpayers checks of at least $300 to $600. But Rep. Gene Taylor, said the distribution of billions of dollars is a bad idea. The only Mississippi lawmaker to vote against the plan, Taylor said…
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February 14, 2008
LNL – ‘Insider’ Wigand compensated generously as unpaid tobacco fact witness
‘Insider’ Wigand compensated generously as unpaid tobacco fact witness Wigand doesn’t discourage such suspicion. He has testified that lawyers gave Smoke Free Kids $2 million; that South Carolina lawyer Ron Motley loaned him $505,000 so he could buy a condominium in Charleston, S.C., that he has stayed at Motley’s home and on his yacht; that…
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February 14, 2008
DJ – Federal grand jury returns to its session
Federal grand jury returns to its session The men and women convened Wednesday morning at the downtown federal courthouse, chatting with front-door security guards they’ve come to know during their extended duty considering information from government prosecutors. It was unclear if Wednesday was their last day since grand jury activity is secret. “Looks like this…
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March 2, 2026
Trump expects his Fed pick and AI to deliver a replay of the ’90s boom. Economists have doubts
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Frank Corder
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March 2, 2026
Spring forward: Daylight Saving Time returns this Sunday
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Jeremy Pittari
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March 2, 2026
House seeks to allow proton radiation therapy in Rankin County, addresses other CON provisions
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Frank Corder
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February 25, 2026
Carpenter Pole and Piling expanding in Wiggins
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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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Frank Corder
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February 18, 2026
Firehawk Aerospace establishing manufacturing operations in Crawford
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Robert St. John
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March 2, 2026
Squirrel!
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Alistair Begg
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March 2, 2026
King of creation
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Frank Corder
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March 1, 2026
America is in trouble
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Roger Wicker
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February 27, 2026
America and Europe share a destiny
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David Ibsen
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February 26, 2026
Mississippi should look to President Trump and Congress to ensure fair access to banking
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Mike Chaney
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February 25, 2026
Insurance fraud effects everyone
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