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August 16, 2007
COLE – Failed beef plant is Spell’s fault
JACKSON (Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007) – Democratic nominee for Commissioner of Agriculture Rickey Cole charged today that incumbent Republican Agriculture Commissioner Lester Spell should bear most of the blame for wasting $55 million in taxpayer money on a failed beef plant. “Lester Spell is the only elected official in this state who bears the full-time…
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August 16, 2007
Wilkinson County Video
WAFB, 8/16/7
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August 16, 2007
New member may determine council’s leader
The Clarion-Ledger, 8/16/7 The newest member of Jackson’s City Council likely will be the deciding vote in who will lead the council. After Ben Allen resigned as Ward 1 councilman in June, the remaining six members tried to elect a new president. But the council split 3-3 between Frank Bluntson and Leslie McLemore. Jeff Weill,…
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August 16, 2007
Debate flares on convicted officials
The Clarion-Ledger, 8/16/7 Two current circuit clerks convicted of felonies have renewed a debate that goes back more than a dozen years over when an official convicted of a crime can be removed from office. Former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Ed Pittman has said that Binky Vines Jr. of Adams County and Burnell Harris…
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August 16, 2007
Mississippi Governor’s Associates Profit From Katrina Recovery
Bloomberg, 8/16/7 Many Mississippians have benefited from Governor Haley Barbour’s efforts to rebuild the state’s devastated Gulf Coast in the two years since Hurricane Katrina. The $15 billion or more in federal aid the former Republican national chairman attracted has reopened casinos and helped residents move to new or repaired homes. Among the beneficiaries are…
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August 16, 2007
Illegal Immigration – A Different Take
A column by David Sanders as featured in
the Northside Sun
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August 15, 2007
Weill sweeps field for Ward 1 seat on council
The Clarion-Ledger, 8/15/7 Former state prosecutor Jeff Weill said he will tap into his mediation skills when he takes a seat this week on Jackson’s often polarized City Council. In Tuesday’s special election to fill the Ward 1 seat vacated by Ben Allen, Weill beat out John Ditto, a real estate developer and son of…
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August 15, 2007
Jamie Franks: Party affiliation of Senate leadership less important than “talent”
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 8/15/7 Jamie Franks says he will not select key Senate committee chairs based on party affiliation if he is elected lieutenant governor Nov. 6. “My approach is very simple. I want to use talent,” Franks told the Daily Journal editorial board Tuesday morning during a 60-minute interview. “I want people…
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August 15, 2007
Hood, Clark on Felons in Runoffs
WLBT, 8/14/7 M. L. “Binky” Vines continues to run for re-election despite a guilty plea on three counts of embezzlement. Attorney General Jim Hood says his office recommended a three-year sentence for Vines in the state penitentiary. Hood even wrote a letter to defense attorneys saying they would not recommend the non-adjudicated order Judge Joe…
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August 15, 2007
Insurance: Coastal customers need a solution
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 8/15/7 Residential and commercial property owners on the Mississippi Gulf Coast continue to struggle with one of Hurricane Katrina’s most enduring legacies – the insurance crisis. The question of a national disaster insurance reform brought U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats to the Coast on Monday to tour the still…
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August 15, 2007
Grocery tax cut, cigarette tax hike issues aren’t going away
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 8/15/7 While there are three months of campaigning still to go for control of the Mississippi Legislature for the next four years – hence control of Gov. Haley Barbour’s policy agenda as well – one thing was made clear during the Aug. 7 primary elections. The longstanding efforts to cut Mississippi’s highest-in-the-nation…
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August 15, 2007
Eaves says governor’s race is his passion
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 8/14/7 Democrat John Arthur Eaves Jr. discounted speculation Monday he is waging a campaign for governor simply to gain more publicity for his successful Jackson law practice. “If I wanted to promote my law practice, I could just buy more ads on television,” Eaves said during a 60-minute interview with…
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September 24, 2026
England-based SubSea Craft expanding operations, locating U.S. facility on Mississippi Coast
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September 24, 2026
Mississippi again seeks end to federal oversight of its child welfare system
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September 24, 2026
Claims for unemployment benefits drop to 197,000, the lowest since mid-July as layoffs remain rare
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Cass Rutledge
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September 23, 2026
Raybern Foods expansion in Shannon bringing 70 new jobs to area
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Cass Rutledge
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September 18, 2026
Industrial Timber expanding its Ripley operations with $2.6 million investment
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Frank Corder
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September 15, 2026
Hitachi Energy brings largest U.S. investment to date to Mississippi
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Alistair Begg
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September 24, 2026
The meaning of the Cross
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Mark Long, Associated Press
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September 23, 2026
No. 21 Florida counting on Swamp to help slow down No. 4 Ole Miss star QB Trinidad Chambliss
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Marilyn Tinnin
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September 23, 2026
Jim Abbott: Paper man chasing the truth in the Mississippi Delta
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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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Lesley Davis
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September 21, 2026
The war on women’s spaces has reached the sorority house
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