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January 23, 2012
Cultural change needed to improve education in Mississippi
Cultural change needed to improve education in Mississippi Philosophical reflection is a foundation from which enterprising solutions often sprout. But, notwithstanding the inviting nature and relative safety of abstract thought, it is often necessary to concede weaknesses from an objective standpoint, understanding that brutal honesty can produce positive results. Last Tuesday evening, while enjoying dinner,…
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January 23, 2012
SH – From babies to beer, new bills in hopper
From babies to beer, new bills in hopper State Rep. Richard Bennett is drafting a bill that would eliminate conjugal visits for state prison inmates, a practice more or less invented at the State Penitentiary at Parchman back in the early 1900s. “We are, I understand, about to build new rooms and buildings for this,”…
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January 23, 2012
Vague advice threatens dozens of Barbour’s pardons
Vague advice threatens dozens of Barbour’s pardons In the legal showdown over the convicted killers pardoned by former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, dozens of people who served time years ago for lesser crimes could lose the chance to clear their records because the state Parole Board and local newspapers provided vague advice about how to…
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January 23, 2012
Majority – Democrats sound-off about committee assignments
Majority – Democrats sound-off about committee assignments … That’s better than some other Yellow Dogs, who were closest to McCoy and made the backbone of the old Democratic majority. The following longtime Democrats received neither a chair or vice chair: Cecil Brown, Bennett Malone, Bobby Moak, Tommy Reynolds, and Johnny Stringer. Holland also didn’t seem…
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January 23, 2012
Coast’s lawmakers named to powerful positions
Coast’s lawmakers named to powerful positions South Mississippi fared well when new House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, named his leadership team on Friday, snaring eight committee chairmanships including the powerful Appropriations post. The 19-member delegation for the six South Mississippi counties had held five chairmanships for the last four years under former Speaker Billy McCoy,…
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January 23, 2012
Steve Holland “disappointed” he’s not a chairman
Steve Holland “disappointed” he’s not a chairman … But at least some of the more vocal Democrats of the past appeared to be slighted in the process. Rep. Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, served on the Public Health or Medicaid committees for nearly three decades. He was appointed to neither this term. “That’s 28 years of public…
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January 23, 2012
Wicker to EPA – Fracking study deserves more rigorous standards
Wicker to EPA – Fracking study deserves more rigorous standards Ten Republican senators have asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to subject a draft report that theorizes a link between hydraulic fracturing and groundwater pollution in a Wyoming gas field to a more rigorous level of scientific review than currently planned. The senators include James…
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January 23, 2012
Gov. Phil Bryant cutting costs in office
Bryant cutting costs in office All other staffers will make between $40,000 and $80,000. The governor is paid $122,160 a year, under state law. Bullock said Bryant’s team decided that no one in his office would make more than the governor. Hattiesburg American 1/22/11
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January 23, 2012
AP Analysis: Religion ever present at Miss. Capitol
Analysis: Religion ever present at Miss. Capitol Spend any time in the Mississippi Capitol and there’s a good chance someone will pray for you and your kin, as well as for the governor, the legislators and other state leaders. There’s no shortage of religious expression in the seat of state government. When legislators are in…
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January 23, 2012
Video – Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves discusses state economic briefing, fiscal outlook
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January 22, 2012
Jennings to chair Military Affairs
Jennings to chair Military Affairs For the first time in the history of Mississippi politics, a woman will chair the House Military Affairs Committee, DeSoto County’s State Rep. Wanda Jennings, R-Southaven. Jennings was one of several House lawmakers who received plum assignments from newly-elected House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton. “I’m so very honored,” Jennings said…
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January 22, 2012
CL op-ed fawns over Jim Hood saying ‘Attorney general hiring a bargain’
Attorney general hiring a bargain The fees are even less if a negotiated settlement is reached prior to litigation: 15 percent declining with the amount of the settlement to 1 percent. These cases are usually very large, in the hundreds of millions of dollars and the payout to the trial lawyers is large when successful.…
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May 15, 2025
Magnolia Mornings: May 15, 2025
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Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press
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May 14, 2025
House Republicans pull an all-nighter on Trump’s tax bill. There’s more work to do
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May 14, 2025
Democrats are deeply pessimistic about the future of their party, an AP-NORC poll finds
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Frank Corder
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May 15, 2025
HH2 relocating Kentucky distribution center to Blue Mountain, Mississippi
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Frank Corder
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May 14, 2025
Nissan says Canton factory strategically important as company announces workforce reductions
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Frank Corder
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April 23, 2025
Amazon locating inbound cross dock operations in Marshall County, creating 1,000 jobs
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C.H. Spurgeon
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May 16, 2025
Little-faith
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C.H. Spurgeon
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May 15, 2025
Be sure
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M.C. Reid
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May 14, 2025
Pascagoula sailor Nelson Walker sets out for solo circumnavigation aboard Persimmon
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Sid Salter
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May 14, 2025
MS Gaming: Legislative standoff over off-premises online sports betting continues
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Kelley Williams
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May 12, 2025
Bad energy policy represents risk to ratepayers
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Bill Crawford
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May 11, 2025
State still hugs bottom as education advances
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