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January 24, 2009
Billy Hewes eVideo update 012209
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January 24, 2009
YP – More info on PSC/Entergy fight
I found a couple of new tidbits of data. First, I found some of the Drabinski data. It is not “Entergy” specific, but it does show the complexity of the transactions. Hopefully, if the PSC has the meat of the testimony in hand, they’ll release it online. I know of at least one person that…
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January 24, 2009
YP – HB 1383 – Wasn’t the tobacco tax supposed to support Medicaid/public health and not education?
Forgive me if my compass is a bit off, but (courtesy of the YallPolitics Memory Division) wasn’t the whole rationale of raising tobacco taxes because tobacco costs the public health system so much money and therefore the tobacco tax would offset Medicaid expenditures? Now we hear that the House is plotting to use the tobacco…
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January 24, 2009
McLemore won’t seek reelection
McLemore won’t seek reelection Jackson City Council President Leslie Burl McLemore announced this morning that he will not seek reelection to represent Ward 2. McLemore, 68, has served on the council since April 1999. “Working with the city council over the last 10 years has been one of the highlights of my life,” McLemore said…
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January 24, 2009
YP – Informers! Informers? That’s how they describe Patterson/Balducci? Are they kidding?
Amazingly, some brain surgeon editor at the AP attached the following headline announcing the sentencing date for Steve “Jabba the Hut” Patterson and Timothy Balducci . . .
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January 23, 2009
House votes to restore education funds
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 1/23/9 By an overwhelming 82-37 vote Thursday, the state House restored a large portion of the education funds that were cut last week by Gov. Haley Barbour. The bill provides $68 million to the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, which provides the basics of operating local school districts. Last week the…
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January 23, 2009
Judge: Melton trial still set to be held on Feb. 2
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/23/9 Five months and three delays later, the federal civil rights trial of Jackson Mayor Frank Melton appears back on track. “There are no pending motions for a continuance,” U.S. District Judge Dan Jordan said in an order posted Thursday, “and absent such a motion from Defendant Melton, the case will proceed as…
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January 23, 2009
Diaz ordered to Simpson job
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/23/9 Former state Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz Jr. has been appointed as a Simpson County Youth Court public defender, though the county doesn’t have enough money set aside to pay him. A chancery judge ordered that Diaz, who lost a re-election bid last year, be given the job. Diaz, a former appeals…
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January 23, 2009
Funds run out but 2 special judges stay
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/23/9 Although the original funding has run out, two of the four part-time special Hinds County Circuit judges appointed to help clear the county’s voluminous criminal docket will remain on the bench. One judge has even agreed to donate time to help clear cases. At the end of 2008, 2,283 felony criminal cases…
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January 23, 2009
House bill to put elected PSC members over staff
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/23/9 Mississippi consumers will be better served by a reorganization of the state agency in charge of utility issues, according to supporters of legislation that cleared the House on Thursday. But opponents said revamping the Public Utilities Staff is unnecessary and will rob the agency of its ability to independently evaluate issues such…
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January 23, 2009
School budgets: It’s state support or taxes
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 1/23/9 The national recession has impacted everyone, requiring cutbacks and sacrifices. When budget cuts are required of all state government functions, it seems fair and equitable. But state budget cuts have a way of trickling down, and in the case of local schools, it becomes more than just inconvenience. All state government…
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January 23, 2009
Balducci, Patterson sentence date set
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 1/23/9 Admitted judicial bribery conspirators Timothy Balducci and Steven A. Patterson will know Feb. 13 if federal prison time is in their futures. The date for the sentencing by U.S. District Senior Judge Neal Biggers Jr. was announced Thursday. It’s the culmination of the judicial bribery drama now known as…
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August 18, 2025
Governor Reeves approves MS National Guard deployment to support D.C. crime crackdown
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August 18, 2025
Zelenskyy brings Europe’s top leaders with him to meet Trump on ending Russia’s war
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August 18, 2025
Magnolia Mornings: August 18, 2025
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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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Daniel Tyson
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August 7, 2025
Mississippi is an attractive place for corporate investment. Find out why
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Parrish Alford
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August 18, 2025
A DL trend? Powe sees flashes of 2008 in evolving Ole Miss defense
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Robert St. John
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August 18, 2025
Regret
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Alistair Begg
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August 18, 2025
The source of true worship
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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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Dr. Kendall Conger
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August 15, 2025
I challenged Duke’s DEI dogma – and paid with my job
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Kimberly Ross
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August 13, 2025
Americans aren’t having enough babies
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