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February 21, 2011
CL – More Dems needed for two-party system
CL – More Dems needed for two-party system As Mississippi approaches the 2011 statewide election qualifying deadline, Democrats are conspicuously absent from the list of candidates qualified for statewide office once one gets past races for governor and attorney general. In 1988, Mississippi Democrats held all eight statewide elected offices. In 1992, Republicans Kirk Fordice…
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February 21, 2011
Clarion Ledger runs Reeves’ response to Bill Minor
Clarion Ledger runs Reeves’ response to Bill Minor Columnist Bill Minor is entitled to his own opinion, but he is not entitled to his own set of facts. (“Reeves’ record will need examining in race for lt. gov.,” Feb. 12. Please allow me to set the record straight on a few issues he raises. FACT:…
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February 21, 2011
SALTER – GOP leapfrogs Dems?
GOP leapfrogs Dems? In Mississippi, the GOP elephant has been swaggering of late. Flush with victory after the 2010 midterm congressional elections, the Mississippi Republican Party unseated two incumbent Democrats to claim three of the state’s four U.S. House seats and has since 1989 held both of the state’s U.S. Senate seats. In statewide elected…
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February 21, 2011
Tougher penalty proposed for Miss. secret meetings
Tougher penalty proposed for Miss. secret meetings Several lawmakers are pushing big changes to Mississippi’s open meetings law again this year – legislation a House committee chairman killed with a last-minute maneuver in 2010. Higher fines, as well as proposals to make officials pay instead of taxpayers when there’s a violation, died last year. Opponents…
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February 21, 2011
3,000-plus may not graduate
3,000-plus may not graduate More than 11 percent of the state’s high school seniors could be in danger of not graduating because they have not passed one or more standardized tests necessary to do so. Of almost 28,000 12th-graders in Mississippi, 3,295 still need to pass one or more subject-area tests to graduate. Of those,…
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February 21, 2011
NMC summarizes pleadings in Frisby vs. Eaton
NMC summarizes pleadings in Frisby vs. Eaton Frisby Aerospace, one of the defendants in the Eaton case in which Ed Peters was hired to secretly influence Judge DeLaughter, has filed an antitrust suit against Eaton in the Middle District of North Carolina. The sixty-three page complaint tells Frisby’s side of this mess in as much…
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February 21, 2011
Patsy Brumfield muses on what may happen in Zach’s April 25th hearing
Patsy Brumfield muses on what may happen in Zach’s April 25th hearing She writes this about the discovery Judge Biggers denied Zach: ”Much of what Scruggs asked for six days ago did not even exist three years ago or was discovered only after the guilty plea.” This seemed an odd thing to write, and sent…
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February 21, 2011
Bill may alter rules for 16th Section land
Bill may alter rules for 16th Section land Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann says a bill moving through the Legislature that would strip his oversight on public school trust lands would cost millions in proceeds for K-12 education. But supporters of the measure say decisions on leasing 16th Section land should rest with local authorities.…
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February 19, 2011
BP: Oil spill claims methodology too generous
BP: Oil spill claims methodology too generous NEW ORLEANS — The administrator of the $20 billion fund for Gulf oil spill victims, under fire for a claims process beset by red tape and delay, has been told by BP that his methodology for final payments is actually too generous. A lengthy document purporting to be…
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February 19, 2011
Justice Court Clerk Arrested for Extortion
Justice Court Clerk Arrested for Extortion, State Auditor Takes Control of Wilkinson County Justice Clerk’s Office (Jackson, Miss.) – State Auditor Stacey Pickering took control of the Wilkinson County Justice Court Clerk’s Office today following an investigation that led to the arrest of Justice Court Clerk Wanda Faye Fountain for extortion. Fountain, 53, of Woodville,…
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February 19, 2011
Gov. Barbour appoints new Public Safety Commission and Highway Patrol Chief
DATE: Feb. 18, 2011 GOV. BARBOUR APPOINTS NEW PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSIONER, HIGHWAY PATROL CHIEF JACKSON – Gov. Haley Barbour announced today the appointments of Albert Santa Cruz as Public Safety Commissioner and Lt. Col. Donnell Berry as Director of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol. Santa Cruz, who has been serving as Highway Safety Patrol chief,…
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February 18, 2011
Should using visual racial stereotypes be used to make points about race? See WAPO’s Ann Telnaes
Another Haley Barbour controversy Related story: Does Haley Barbour need to give a ‘race speech’? Ann Telnaes Washington Post
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Jeremy Pittari
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May 7, 2026
Wednesday night storm spawns several tornadoes that damage hundreds of homes in three counties
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Frank Corder
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May 6, 2026
Speaker White names House Select Committees to tackle property taxes, school consolidation, redistricting, more
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Daniel Tyson
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May 6, 2026
Job training life-affirming for inmates in MAGCOR programs
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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
Culture
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Alistair Begg
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May 8, 2026
The cost of complaining
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Susan Marquez
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May 7, 2026
Noah “Soggy” Sweat’s “The Whiskey Speech” to be presented at Two Mississippi Museums
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Alistair Begg
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May 7, 2026
Purchased for God
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Russ Latino
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May 8, 2026
Something for everyone to hate in the redistricting debate
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Christy Hovanetz
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May 6, 2026
Mississippi is raising the bar, and that’s a really good thing for kids
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Russ Latino
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May 5, 2026
Mississippi faces pressure to redistrict before congressional midterms, but also real world constraints
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