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February 23, 2009
New U.S. attorney to be selected
The Sun Herald, 2/22/9 The president nominates individuals for U.S. attorney. Those nominated must be confirmed by the Senate. The president relies on recommendations from senior members of the same party, first looking to the Senate. However, both Mississippi senators are Republicans. U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor is the senior Democrat in the House of Representatives,…
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February 23, 2009
STANFORD:3 Q’s with Delbert Hosemann
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 2/22/9 The recent charges against the Stanford Group have prompted a flood of calls to the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office. “Our office immediately subpoenaed financial information and will be taking action to ensure the assets of the citizens of our state are protected,” said Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann,…
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February 23, 2009
Prison system funding debated
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/22/9 Some Mississippi lawmakers are complaining that prisoners get priority over college students in a proposed state budget that increases funding for the Department of Corrections. The approval of appropriations bills in the House and Senate last week starts the process for developing a $5 billion state spending plan for the fiscal year…
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February 23, 2009
Minor, wife get 3 hours together
The Sun Herald, 2/21/9 Paul Minor is back in a Pensacola prison after visiting his terminally ill wife, Sylvia, in Baton Rouge for three hours Friday. “Somebody put a barrier in the way and cut it down from three days to three hours,” his father, Mississippi journalist Bill Minor of Jackson, said Saturday. His son…
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February 23, 2009
POLITICO Q and A: Gov. Haley Barbour
POLITICO Q and A: Gov. Haley Barbour Q: House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said this week that for Southern governors, including you, to refuse stimulus aid would be a “slap in the face” to their black constituents. Do you have any response to that? A: I didn’t see that comment. I don’t know of anybody…
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February 23, 2009
Cochran, Wicker and Harper announce $4.9M for Jackson-Evers airport
Sens. Cochran, Wicker, and Rep. Harper Announce $4.9 Million for Jackson-Evers International Airport WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Thad Cochran, Roger Wicker, and U.S. Representative Gregg Harper today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation has released $4,980,692 in funding for the Jackson-Evers International Airport. These funds will provide the airport with security enhancements and…
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February 23, 2009
Statewide elections hear early rumblings from South Mississippi
Statewide elections hear early rumblings from South Mississippi If GOP candidates beat on each other, and Hood or some other big Democrat contender could stave off such infighting, Democrats could recapture the governorship they held for so long but have appeared to lose in the Deep South shift to Republicanism. Hood could potentially take a…
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February 23, 2009
GRAY:Childers has political latitude on stimulus vote
GRAY:Childers has political latitude on stimulus vote In an interview with Daily Journal editors last week, Childers acknowledged that he had given potential Republican opponents in this ordinarily Republican-leaning district an opening to attack him. The National Republican Congressional Committee began the assault soon after Childers’ vote with a press release condemning it. But the…
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February 23, 2009
SALTER – New tricks: Newspaper columnist and talk radio host
New tricks: Newspaper columnist and talk radio host I have no preconceived notions about talk radio and luckily, neither do the folks at TeleSouth. I plan to use that format much like this column – to inform, to educate, to provoke and to get folks thinking about the issues of the day that matter in…
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February 23, 2009
Fmr. Rep Robert Clark recalls his trailblazing career
Retired lawmaker recalls his trailblazing career As the first black member of the Mississippi House of Representatives since Reconstruction, Robert Clark had to prove to his colleagues that an African American could have the same sophistication as a white man. Clark served nine consecutive terms from 1968-2003 and eventually won the respect of his fellow…
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February 23, 2009
NMC on P.L. Blake
Blake House? There’s some biographical stuff about Blake, and another interesting name pops up: The son of a sharecropper, Blake began life [apparently, like Athena, springing forth at birth in football armor] as a football star out of Tallahatchie County, playing lineman for Mississippi State University before graduating in 1959 and later playing for the…
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February 23, 2009
Mitchell on Patterson (but mostly Blake)
Mitchell on Patterson (but mostly Blake) all started in March 2007 when those indicted “discussed ways and means of attempting to corruptly influence Circuit Judge Henry Lackey … Knowing that Timothy R. Balducci and Judge Lackey had been friends for many years, Richard ‘Dickie’ Scruggs asked Balducci to explore ways of corruptly influencing the judge.”…
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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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