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October 14, 2009
Miss. tax revenue $128 million less than last year, 7% more cuts expected
Miss. tax revenue $128 million less than last year, 7% more cuts expected “I’ve been in state government almost 26 years, and I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Kevin Upchurch, executive director of the state Department of Finance and Administration. That’s because revenues are down 12 percent for the first quarter of this fiscal…
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October 14, 2009
Hardly bipartisan, health bill moves ahead
Hardly bipartisan, health bill moves ahead WASHINGTON — Fully bipartisan it isn’t. But at long last, White House-backed health care legislation has a Republican supporter in Congress. Historic legislation to expand U.S. health care and control costs won its first Republican supporter Tuesday and cleared a key Senate hurdle, a double-barreled triumph that propelled President…
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October 14, 2009
Supreme Court looks at Honest Services fraud, particularly the Skilling case
Supreme Court looks at Honest Services fraud Honest services fraud. It’s clearly the buzz phrase of the day in white-collar criminal cases, due to the decision of the Supreme Court to review the conviction of former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling (see previous LB post). The law makes it a crime to deprive someone of “the…
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October 14, 2009
Florida and Alabama pulling away not only from SEC, but from nation
Florida and Alabama pulling away not only from SEC, but from nation College football may not have a playoff, but it does have a bracket. I first advanced my BCS title game bracket theory on Sept. 11 in the From Scrimmage blog to console a grammarian USC fan who couldn’t understand why I had jumped…
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October 14, 2009
Q&A with ESPN’s BCS analyst Brad Edwards
Q&A with ESPN’s BCS analyst Brad Edwards Brad Edwards’ life is about to center around computers and polls. The beauty pagent portion of the college football season officially starts Sunday when the first Bowl Championship Series standings are released. I talked with Brad, who analyzes the BCS for ESPN, for a preliminary look at what…
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October 14, 2009
GOVERNOR BARBOUR SAYS MORE BUDGET CUTS INEVITABLE FOR FY 2010
GOVERNOR BARBOUR SAYS MORE BUDGET CUTS INEVITABLE FOR FY 2010 “In view of the continuing revenue shortfall that threatens the state budget, I have begun working on additional cuts that will be needed to keep the budget in balance, as required by law. Complicating the process is a state statute that limits my authority to…
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October 14, 2009
AP – Morgan Freeman helps friend (Bill Luckett) in Miss. gov’s race
Morgan Freeman helps friend in Miss. gov’s race Freeman has written a fundraising letter and is one of the hosts for a cocktail party in Los Angeles next week for Bill Luckett, an attorney seeking the Democratic nomination. Term limits prevent Republican Gov. Haley Barbour from seeking a third term. “Reform in Mississippi is hard…
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October 14, 2009
MID Commish Mike Chaney’s response to CL editorial on insurance denials based on domestic abuse
The editorial entitled “Insurance: Abuse Victims Are Denied”, which appeared in the October 9, 2009 edition of The Clarion-Ledger, requires a response. In the 2001 Session of the Mississippi Legislature, the Mississippi Insurance Department worked closely with then House Insurance Committee Chairperson, Rep. Mary Ann Stevens, to sponsor four bills designed to prohibit unfair discrimination…
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October 13, 2009
Miss. to be one of the first states to get Census results, political arm-wrestling awaits
Miss. to be one of the first states to get Census results, political arm-wrestling awaits Little of the same redistricting tension that surrounded the 2000 population census exists now as the Legislature awaits figures of the 2010 census. But that is not to say some angry partisan arm-wrestling — Democrat against Republican — over legislative…
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October 13, 2009
Bennie Thompson against Wicker’s measure to allow checked guns on trains
Bennie Thompson against Wicker’s measure to allow checked guns on trains Senate legislation to let Amtrak train passengers put guns in checked baggage would undermine safety, two House lawmakers said today. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, and Peter King of New York, the panel’s senior Republican, protested the gun proposal…
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October 13, 2009
C.L. – Insurance shouldn’t deny abused because they are supposed “high risks”
C.L. – Insurance shouldn’t deny abused because they are supposed “high risks” Mississippi is one of eight states in which it is legal for insurance companies to deny coverage to victims of domestic violence on the basis that such victimization makes a potential insured “high risk.” Talk about being victimized twice! This is wrong and…
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October 13, 2009
Luckett a VIP at the Helena blues festival
Luckett a VIP at the Helena blues festival But there were other sounds of note that were not strictly musical — things political, environmental, educational, economic. In attendance at the VIP party, into which I ventured by knowing somebody who knew somebody who knew somebody, was a large and oddly engaging man of silver hair…
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Frank Corder
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April 20, 2026
EXCLUSIVE: Now running for governor, Philip Gunn sits for wide-ranging interview with Magnolia Tribune
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April 20, 2026
Magnolia Mornings: April 20, 2026
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April 17, 2026
The Supreme Court hands a win to oil and gas companies fighting environmental lawsuits in Louisiana
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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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Susan Marquez
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April 10, 2026
C Spire completes work under Mississippi Capital Projects Fund to expand high-speed, broadband infrastructure
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Daniel Tyson
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April 9, 2026
Amazon investing another $12 billion in Central Mississippi
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Robert St. John
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April 20, 2026
The Yonderlust Twenty
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Alistair Begg
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April 20, 2026
Enough for today
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Matt Friedeman
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April 19, 2026
Hosea and the kiss
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Chris Brown
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April 20, 2026
Simplified reporting will increase welfare fraud and errors
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Sid Salter
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April 15, 2026
April 15th is the perfect day to focus on the ramifications of federal and state tax gaps
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Hunter Estes
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April 14, 2026
From Mississippi to the moon
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