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June 12, 2009
Court agrees to disbar Peters
Court agrees to disbar Peters Former Hinds County District Attorney Ed Peters, who has been linked to a high-profile judicial bribery investigation, has been granted his request to be disbarred. The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to Peters’ irrevocable resignation from the practice of law. In December, Peters petitioned for disbarment over an undisclosed…
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June 12, 2009
ROM – Bill Luckett calls Delta Independents, Republicans “racists”
ROM – Bill Luckett calls Delta Independents, Republicans “racists” Bill Luckett, an attorney and owner of of the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, has opened the “Progress for Mississippi” PAC to get ready to run for Governor. In not the best way to start a campaign, he has said anyone in the Delta who…
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June 12, 2009
War-funding deal reached, photos could be released, coast gets $500 million
War-funding deal reached, photos could be released, coast gets $500 million President Barack Obama would be allowed for the next four months to order Guantanamo Bay detainees into the United States to face trial under a compromise reached Thursday by House and Senate negotiators struggling with a war-funding bill. Transferring detainees from the U.S. detention…
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June 12, 2009
Atlantic – Federalism And The Changing Politics Of Tobacco
Federalism And The Changing Politics Of Tobacco For those of us who covered the tobacco wars of the 1990s, it’s hard to believe how much has changed. Back then, tobacco companies, fearful of lawsuits, were eager to forge a national legal settlement, passed by Congress, that would give them immunity from lawsuits. Prominent trial lawyers,…
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June 12, 2009
Bill Luckett announces formation of Progress for Mississippi
Bill Luckett announces formation of Progress for Mississippi Clarksdale attorney and businessman Bill Luckett took the first step in throwing his hat in the ring for a run at the 2011 campaign for Mississippi governor. Luckett, who owns a blues club and a restaurant in Clarksdale with veteran actor Morgan Freeman, announced Thursday that he…
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June 12, 2009
Contingency fee contract info in Mississippi vs. MSFT
A few details about the case. It was filed in Hinds County Chancery Court. Local litigator Brent Hazzard signed a contingency agreement with Attorney General Jim Hood for the Microsoft case. Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP & Susman Godfrey were associated by Hazzard for the case. The Boies Law Firm features David Boies, who was…
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June 12, 2009
Mississippi To Receive Millions In Settlement With Microsoft
Mississippi To Receive Millions In Settlement With Microsoft Mississippi has reached a multi-million dollar anti-trust settlement with software giant Microsoft, announced Attorney General Jim Hood today (Thursday). The settlement order, worth up to $100 million, between the State of Mississippi and Microsoft was approved by Hinds County Chancery Court Judge Denise Owens today and settles…
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June 11, 2009
PSC Commish Presley selected as a Board member by NRRI after PSC retained them in March
On June 10, 2009, MS Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley was selected to the board of the National Regulatory Research Institute. What was not cited in the release is that the Public Service Commission earlier this year recently retained NRRI for a six figure sum to evaluate Mississippi Power’s proposed clean coal plant in Kemper…
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June 11, 2009
Melick: It’s time UA president called an athletic department intervention
Melick: It’s time UA president called an athletic department intervention It’s time to admit it. The University of Alabama has a problem. It’s time for an intervention, time for somebody — university President Robert Witt, perhaps — to bring the entire athletics family into a room and say, “This has got to stop.” Once again,…
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June 11, 2009
Billon dollar set backs for Jim Hood
Billion Dollar Set Backs for Jim Hood Last week was a bad one for Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood. First, Hood lost before a three judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals over a billion dollar lawsuit accusing Memphis of stealing Mississippi’s water. This case is also interesting because Public Service Commissioner Brandon…
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June 11, 2009
MS Dem Exe Dir Sam Hall calls for debate on gun control
A real debate on gun control I think Jim Craig made an excellent point on gun control in light of the DC shootings and Justice Scalia’s recent opinion on DC gun laws: “How about a movement to amend the Constitution to explicitly provide for control of non-hunting, non-pistol weapons? Let’s have an open debate with…
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June 11, 2009
Warnock paid $9.5 million since 2005
Warnock paid $9.5 million since 2005 Madison County Engineer Rudy Warnock has been paid nearly $9.5 million since 2005, an analysis of engineering fees shows. Overall, fees paid to the county engineer have increased more than 615 percent since Warnock was appointed four years ago. Some members of the Board of Supervisors insist the fees…
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Jeremy Pittari
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June 6, 2025
State funding for Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning down from previous year
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Mark Sherman, Associated Press
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June 6, 2025
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to leave mass layoffs at Education Department in place
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Daniel Tyson
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June 6, 2025
Legal fight over control of Jackson airport continues
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Paul Wiseman, Associated Press
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June 6, 2025
Hiring in the US slows, though employers still added a solid 139,000 jobs in May
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Frank Corder
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May 19, 2025
Modine expanding data center cooling equipment manufacturing in Grenada County
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Lynne Jeter
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May 19, 2025
Goldman Sachs honors inaugural Mississippi small business graduating class
Culture
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Susan Marquez
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June 8, 2025
Langdon and Maude Schuyler Clay capture the culture of Mississippi through the lens of a camera
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Matt Friedeman
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June 8, 2025
The party called Pentecost
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Marilyn Tinnin
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June 8, 2025
Elizabeth Spencer: A Grande Dame of Southern literature
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Russ Latino
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June 6, 2025
Make America Boring Again
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Sid Salter
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June 4, 2025
Bo Robinson, appointed to PSC after jarring corruption scandals, dies at age 90
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Kimberly Ross
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June 3, 2025
The American epidemic of loneliness
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