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December 23, 2008
Drama continues to play out, even after Langston’s sentence
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 12/21/8 Last week’s sentencing of former Booneville attorney Joseph C. “Joey” Langston marked the end and the beginning of the multiyear legal drama that has come to be known collectively as Scruggs I and Scruggs II. – The end of Scruggs I because apparently everybody caught up legally in that…
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December 23, 2008
Mayor’s race: Not too early to gauge candidates
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 12/22/8 Filing deadline isn’t until March 6, and the election June 2, but nine men have already expressed interest in running for the post of Jackson mayor. The latest to state his intent was Eddie Fair, Hinds County tax collector, who made the announcement Wednesday outside City Hall. No one has officially…
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December 23, 2008
Diaz leaves bench with call to end death penalty
The Sun Herald, 12/20/8 Outgoing Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz Jr.’s impassioned call for an end to the death penalty has drawn both criticism and praise. In what was likely his departing dissent as his tenure on Mississippi’s highest court ends, Diaz says society finally must recognize that “even as murderers commit the most cruel…
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December 22, 2008
Scantily clad urban terrorist thugs get nabbed by Metro One helicopter
Thermal Cameras Help JPD Capture Robbery Suspects Officer Lonnie Arinder was in the woods searching. “We were determined,” Arinder said. “I don’t know if it was my pride or something else, but we were going to get these guys. I am glad we did.” Metro One was able to track the men at night using…
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December 21, 2008
AU’s Chizik can make early splash
http://www.al.com/sports/press-register/rkennedy.ssf?/base/sports/122985457361200.xml&coll=3 How long is it going to take Gene Chizik to lead Auburn to a win over Alabama? As Pat Dye famously said when he was hired in 1981, “Sixty minutes.” How long would it have taken for Chizik to begin to ease the feelings of the Auburn fans who fear their new coach will…
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December 20, 2008
UGA assistant Searels talking to Auburn
UGA assistant Searels talking to Auburn Athens — Auburn is pursuing Georgia’s highly regarded offensive line coach, Stacy Searels, for a possible position on new coach Gene Chizik’s staff. “They’re talking to him,” Georgia coach Mark Richt said Friday. “So we’ll see [what happens].” Searels, in his second season on Georgia’s staff after four years…
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December 20, 2008
Welcome to Auburn: It’s Dye country again
Welcome to Auburn: It’s Dye country again Welcome to Auburn; it’s Dye country again I believe, but not in a pregame message-board kind of way. I believe, in Auburn, the transition from Tommy Tuberville to Gene Chizik has been more than a coaching change. I believe, if Auburn were a country rather than a family,…
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December 19, 2008
US Congress awards themselves $4700 pay raise
Members of Congress are slated to receive a $4,700 pay raise beginning in January, increasing their annual salaries to $174,000. The increase for 535 House and Senate members would cost taxpayers more than $2.5 million. That salary alone, which excludes all other outside income and spousal wages, ranks each lawmaker in the top six percent…
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December 19, 2008
Lt. Gov. Bryant: Increase older homeowners’ tax breaks
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/19/8 Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant says he supports a proposal to increase the homestead exemption for persons over 65 or the totally disabled from the current $75,000 level to $100,000. Bryant’s proposal would also adjust the homestead exemption that applies to all other homeowners. Under homestead exemptions, the state encourages people to own…
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December 19, 2008
State auditor looking at MSU
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/19/8 The state auditor’s office again is investigating a possible misuse of public resources involving Mississippi State University. Authorities have not identified the targets or the nature of the probe. Two months ago, a separate auditor’s investigation led to the retirements of two top higher education officials. Lisa Shoemaker, spokeswoman for the auditor’s…
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December 19, 2008
Voter ID: Let’s solve this issue, promote voting
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 12/19/8 Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann should be commended for pushing two ideas that are overdue: requiring voter identification at the polls and allowing early voting. Actually, both issues can work to ease voting, reduce long lines and promote people going to the polls, if done correctly. The voter ID issue has…
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December 19, 2008
PSC: Doesn’t Miss. elect ‘consumer advocates?’
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 12/19/8 A survey by the AARP shows overwhelming support for a law to create a consumer advocacy office to represent Mississippians when utility companies ask for raise hikes. Members of the state Public Service Commission seem agreeable to the idea. Commissioner Brandon Presley said it would keep consumers’ voices where they can…
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Daniel Tyson
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August 15, 2025
Grant funding in 5 Mississippi counties aimed at reducing financial strain in Youth Courts
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Frank Corder
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August 15, 2025
MSU Ag report: Row crop producers in Mississippi facing a very tough road ahead
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Anne D'Innocenzio, Associated Press
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August 15, 2025
Retail sales rise a solid 0.5% in July from June helped by rebounding auto sales
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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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Alistair Begg
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August 15, 2025
The weight of glory
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Eddie Pells, Associated Press
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August 14, 2025
A way-too early guess at who will make the College Football Playoff this season
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Ben Smith
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August 14, 2025
Passing the time until deer season
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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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Sid Salter
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August 13, 2025
Term limits: Still a tired gimmick, still disempowers voters, still weakens Mississippi
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