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January 22, 2009
Mysterious Google news,jury powers
Mysterious Google news,jury powers First question: What do disgraced Oxford ex-attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and music icon Earl Scruggs have in common? Answer: The latter’s name appears on my Google Alert all day long, when I really want to know if anything’s been published about the federal prisoner in the vortex of another investigation into…
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January 22, 2009
Thrown Under The (School) Bus
Thrown Under The (School) Bus The $90 million hospital Medicaid deficit still exists as 2009 dawns. But, nearly everyone (the governor included) now acknowledges that the cigarette tax should and will be raised. You’d guess the hospitals are happy, huh? New tax money will be available to defer the $90 million they’d otherwise have to…
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January 22, 2009
NMC – Scruggs disbarred from federal court
File under, I already thought that had been handled: Scruggs disbarred by ND Miss. For some reason (or no reason?), today the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi disbarred Dickie Scruggs, in an order signed by Judge Mills. This is of course an automatic consequence of the conviction and state disbarment.…
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January 22, 2009
Pro-card check resolution HCR25 gets sniffed out and gutted by young conservatives
Rep. Jim Evans, who is involved in a state and national capacity with the AFL-CIO, introduced a resolution that called HCR25. Under the rather innocuous auspices of celebrating a “Workers’ Memorial Day” on April 28, the bill had some language slipped in that seemed to try and create some Mississippi legislative blessing for the Employee…
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January 22, 2009
YP-Billy McCoy and Tyrone Ellis fail on rules suspension to strip anti-corruption measures from PSC
Today Jim Hood and Brandon Presley put the screws to House Speaker Billy McCoy who put the screws to Tyrone Ellis. They all tried to put the screws to the House of Representatives, but the Speaker lost the vote. He’s going to try again tomorrow. What issue could be so important that it would be…
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January 22, 2009
Miss. PSC staff revamp advances . . . to a point
Miss. PSC staff revamp advances House Bill 1090 gained approval in the House Public Utilities Committee. The measure would put the Public Utilities Staff under the supervision of the three elected officials who comprise the Public Service Commission. The staff currently is separate from the commission, a setup that Northern District commissioner Brandon Presley has…
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January 21, 2009
Obama’s administration begins first Internet-driven presidency
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 1/21/9 Unless you were one of the 164,000-plus people “following” then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama on Twitter during the 2008 presidential campaign or were among his 3.8 million Facebook supporters, this column won’t make as much sense to you as it perhaps should. President Barack Obama officially took the oath…
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January 21, 2009
Mayors get ready for ’09 elections
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 1/20/9 Almost all of Northeast Mississippi’s mayors will have a spot on the ballot in the upcoming municipal elections. Mayors Ed Neelly of Tupelo and Richard Howorth of Oxford are the exceptions; they’ve announced that they will not be seeking another four-year term. No one has qualified yet for the…
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January 21, 2009
Hospitals get insurer funds
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/21/9 Two south Mississippi hospitals have received more than a half million dollars altogether from the liquidation of a Pearl-based health care insurer accused in 2004 of failing to pay over $800,000 in medical claims. Gulfport Memorial Hospital has received $482,569 and Singing River Hospital in Pascagoula was given a check for $72,825…
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January 21, 2009
Miss. schools trying to trim fat from lean budgets
The Sun Herald, 1/21/9 Barbour has ordered a 3.2 percent budget cut for the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, the formula used to determine how much money each of the state’s 152 districts receives. The governor cut all state agencies’ budgets last week, saying Mississippi’s tax collections will be short between $175 million and $310 million…
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January 21, 2009
Barbour thanks Bush, encourages Obama
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 1/21/9 Around 11 a.m. Tuesday, the halls of the Mississippi Capitol were unusually quiet considering the Legislature was in session. Normally at that time of day, the halls are bustling with lobbyists, legislators and others on state government business. On Tuesday, though, they weren’t. But a little after the top…
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January 21, 2009
Entergy review could mean refunds
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/21/9 Mississippi ratepayers will receive a refund or credit on their electric bills if it’s proven that Entergy overcharged them, Public Service Commission members said Tuesday in response to the company’s latest revelation. Entergy Mississippi Inc. told the state Public Service Commission the company may have purchased more fuel than it previously reported…
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Daniel Tyson
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June 19, 2025
Mississippi, NVIDIA partner to advance AI education, workforce development
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June 19, 2025
Magnolia Mornings: June 19, 2025
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Stan Choe, Associated Press
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June 18, 2025
Wall Street drifts after the Fed indicates it may still cut rates twice this year
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June 17, 2025
Balch & Bingham’s Hoffmann appointed Honorary Consul of Belgium for Mississippi and Alabama
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Bernard Condon, Associated Press
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June 16, 2025
The Trump family’s next venture, a mobile phone company
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Lynne Jeter
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June 15, 2025
Will Bradham expands business his father needed
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Dennis Waszak Jr., Associated Press
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June 19, 2025
From ‘Love Island’ to the practice field, Jaxson Dart is already fitting in with the Giants’ QBs
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Susan Marquez
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June 19, 2025
Jackson’s Levure features all natural wines
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C.H. Spurgeon
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June 19, 2025
Your cross
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Sid Salter
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June 18, 2025
Mississippi was once the scene 62 years ago of a federalized National Guard at Ole Miss
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Kelley Williams
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June 17, 2025
Georgia’s PSC is in the game on data centers, Mississippi’s has been benched
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Kimberly Ross
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June 17, 2025
Perceived hypocrisy does not an excuse make for violent mob-driven riots
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