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March 5, 2009
Miss. House votes to bypass governor on stimulus
Forbes, 3/4/9 After a three-hour debate that stretched from Pharisees to fried bologna, the Democratic-controlled Mississippi House voted Wednesday to bypass Republican Gov. Haley Barbour so the state can get its full share of federal stimulus money. Only a relatively small portion of the state’s $2.8 billion from the stimulus package is in question. Barbour…
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March 5, 2009
Judicial probe puts $1B Hinds case on hold
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/4/9 A $1 billion lawsuit in a theft of trade secret case has been put on hold because of the involvement of a Hinds County Circuit judge now under indictment and a former county district attorney. Eaton Corp. alleges in the lawsuit that former employees, all engineers, stole trade secrets for military contracts…
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March 5, 2009
PSC tells utilities to cut interest rates
PSC tells utilities to cut interest rates “This is just one baby step in an effort to reform how Mississippi ratepayers have been charged,” Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley said Wednesday. “A lot more has to be done.” Southern District Commissioner Leonard Bentz said it’s “unacceptable for utility companies to charge 13 percent…
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March 5, 2009
CL – Voter ID: Supporters missed opportunity
Voter ID: Supporters missed opportunity Sen. Merle Flowers, R-Southaven, said he didn’t like parts of the bill that allowed early voting, and GOP Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant agreed in a statement issued afterward. But the legislation’s death prompted outrage from other Republicans who had pushed for further negotiations. House Democrats also voiced disbelief. Senate Elections…
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March 5, 2009
Miss. Senate votes to ban traffic cameras
Miss. Senate votes to ban traffic cameras House Bill 1568 overwhelmingly passed the Senate and is headed back to the House for more work. The bill prohibits cities and counties from passing ordinances that use traffic cameras to catch red-light runners. It also requires cities that already use the cameras to take them down by…
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March 5, 2009
Frank Melton officially enters race for 2nd term
Jackson mayor officially enters race for 2nd term Melton faces at least nine Democratic contenders, including a city councilman and a state senator. Melton started the morning at a meeting with his department heads. He told them that he would keep all of them if he wins a second term. The question of whether Hinds…
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March 5, 2009
Eaton v Frisby – Judge Swan Yerger puts $1B Hinds case on hold
Judicial probe puts $1B Hinds case on hold Eaton Corp. alleges in the lawsuit that former employees, all engineers, stole trade secrets for military contracts from their Jackson company and gave them to their new employer, Frisby Aerospace, a North Carolina competitor. Alan Perry, one of Frisby’s attorneys, argued today that the lawsuit should be…
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March 5, 2009
ICLAWBLOG – End days for False Claims Act case alleging massive insurer fraud?
End days for False Claims Act case alleging massive insurer fraud? Now, it has always seemed pretty clear to me that this strategy of claiming fraud on the nation’s taxpayers was simply a way to try to nationalize Katrina issues and put added pressure on insurers to pay more. One of the legal offensives that…
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March 5, 2009
ICLAWBLOG – Scruggs Nation: Zach was ‘halfway’ home
Scruggs Nation: Zach was ‘halfway’ home As best as I can understand it, the younger Scruggs didn’t report directly from the prison to the halfway house, but instead went to the middle of Oxford, near the old Scruggs Law Office, and had lunch with his family. Close family friend and former Mississippi AG Mike Moore…
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March 5, 2009
NMC – Judge Bobby DeLaughter hires Tom Durkin from Chicago…
Judge DeLaughter hires Tom Durkin from Chicago… It’s all becoming clearer. Larry Little has just moved to admit Thomas Anthony Durkin as co-counsel for Judge DeLaughter. Here’s the motion. Durkin is a prominent criminal defense lawyer in Chicago and a former assistant US attorney there. He’s done Gitmo cases. Here’s something about him from a…
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March 5, 2009
YAZOO – Travis Childers fooled many conservatives
Travis Childers fooled many conservatives An eighth grader came up to me the other day and asked, “Mr. Patterson, I notice that you use the word ‘spinmeister’ in your articles. What exactly is a ‘spinmeister‘?” “Let me give you a simple example,” I responded. “One day, I invited two friends of mine, Scott Jones and…
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March 4, 2009
Miss. near top of insurance list
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/4/9 Louisiana homeowners paid the third-highest home insurance rates in 2006, while Mississippi was hit with the sixth-highest average bill for coverage, according to a report by a national group of state insurance regulators. Although the report is the first since hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck in 2005, leaving behind billions of dollars…
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Frank Corder
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August 21, 2025
Mississippi agriculture, energy officials support USDA’s rollback of solar subsidies on prime farmland
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Jeremy Pittari
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August 21, 2025
U.S. Secretary of Education makes two stops in Oxford
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Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press
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August 21, 2025
Appeals court throws out massive civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump
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Lynne Jeter
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August 20, 2025
Mississippi Cyber and Technology Center project marks major milestone
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Lynne Jeter
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August 12, 2025
CoBuilders 2025 Launch Day: Mississippi’s innovation ecosystem takes center stage
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Daniel Tyson
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August 11, 2025
What is Mississippi’s pitch to corporations looking to invest in the Magnolia State?
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Susan Marquez
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August 21, 2025
Let’s Eat, Mississippi: Tom’s Fried Pies
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Alistair Begg
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August 21, 2025
A throne forever
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Robbie Faulk, Associated Press
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August 20, 2025
Mississippi State working to bounce back from rough first season under Jeff Lebby
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Sid Salter
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August 20, 2025
Natchez’s Greg Iles saved his best writing for his reflective “Natchez Burning” trilogy
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Philip Wegmann
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August 19, 2025
Trump vows Social Security will thrive for another ‘90 years’
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Josh Appel
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August 18, 2025
C.S. Lewis in the Age of Bleakness
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