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December 2, 2008
Council: City lax on foiling gas theft
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/2/8 The city of Jackson has not done enough to keep its employees from stealing gasoline and misusing city gas cards, members of the City Council said Monday. They pointed to the thousands of gas purchases made each month where workers did not get receipts or paid for gas using memorized gas card…
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December 2, 2008
Motion: Law must apply to Melton
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/2/8 In a motion filed late Monday, federal prosecutors said Jackson Mayor Frank Melton should be held accountable for obeying the law, not “his personal moral code of conduct.” The motion was filed in response to a defense argument that jurors in the mayor’s Jan. 5 trial should be allowed to hear evidence…
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December 2, 2008
Melton’s prosecutors seek to bar motions against bodyguard
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/1/8 Federal prosecutors Monday asked U.S. District Court Judge Dan Jordan to place three of their latest motions in Mayor Frank Melton’s civil rights case under seal, two of them in an apparent effort to protect their star witness. Melton and his two former Jackson Police Department bodyguards Marcus Wright and Michael Recio…
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December 2, 2008
Speculation begins about state 2011 race for governor
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 12/2/8 Here we are just completing the first year of the current term and there is already tremendous speculation about who will run for governor in 2011. Of course, speculation will now be temporarily refocused to the newly created coaching vacancy at Mississippi State. Still, there is considerable talk…
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December 2, 2008
Entergy asks PSC for hearing on ruling
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/2/8 Entergy Mississippi is seeking a hearing before the state Public Service Commission to contest the panel’s resolution last week allowing Attorney General Jim Hood access to records. “We’re disappointed the commission and the attorney general didn’t give us an opportunity to be heard before issuing this unprecedented resolution,” Haley Fisackerly, president and…
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December 2, 2008
State’s Democrats praise choices for administration
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/2/8 Mississippi Democrats on Monday praised President-elect Barack Obama’s choices of who will advise him on security issues, while Republicans took a wait-and-see approach. The state’s two senators, both Republicans, haven’t said how they’ll vote as the Senate considers Obama’s nominations next month. The Democratic-controlled chamber is expected to approve his picks. Obama…
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December 2, 2008
Mississippi not a 2-party state, professor says
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/1/8 Democrats need to sharpen their organization in Mississippi to appeal to a broader swath of voters in statewide races, political scientists say. “We don’t, in my opinion, have an active, healthy two-party system in this state,” Jackson State University’s Mary Coleman said during a public-affairs luncheon in Jackson. She said Democratic candidates…
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December 2, 2008
John Feinstein – abolish the 2nd Amendment
Of course, the lead story in all the New York papers today had nothing to do with the Giants’ victory. The New York Times, hardly known for sensationalism, led its sports page with the following headline: “Burress to Surrender to Authorities.” That’s because Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress walked into a New York nightclub on…
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December 2, 2008
USA ready for European-style Value Added Tax system?
It’s highly possible, if not inevitable, that Americans will soon live under a radically different tax system – one that the pundits and politicians aren’t talking about. It’s called a value-added tax, or VAT, and it’s been used for decades to pay the bills and sustain the immense growth of governments around the world, from…
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December 2, 2008
Official announcement of Recession precedes 680 point Dow decline
The stock market on Monday suffered one of its worst days since the financial meltdown began, slicing 680 points off the Dow Jones industrial average as Wall Street snapped out of its daydream of a rally and once again faced the harsh reality of a recession. Not only did stocks end their five-day winning streak,…
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December 2, 2008
LNL – Hood gets support in Entergy records dispute
Hood gets support in Entergy records dispute Last week, the PSC encouraged Entergy to provide all documents sought by Hood. Entergy has called Hood’s investigation “a fishing expedition,” while Hood feels the company may be overcharging customers. “I applaud Mississippi’s Public Service Commissioners Brandon Presley, Lynn Posey and Leonard Bentz, for issuing the resolution to…
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December 2, 2008
Judge Lackey Reflects on Bribery Scheme
Judge Reflects on Bribery Scheme Judge Lackey said he still doesn’t know what all the fuss is about. “Sometimes I think it’s about like praising the chancery clerk for not stealing,” said Lackey. The judge isn’t unappreciative; he said he simply remembers his oath to uphold the law. First appointed to the bench in 1993…
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June 22, 2025
US strikes 3 Iranian nuclear sites, President Trump describes as “very successful attack”
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June 20, 2025
Supreme Court work goes on with 10 cases to decide, including birthright citizenship
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Jeremy Pittari
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June 20, 2025
Mississippi K-12, higher education boards adopt policy to handle DEI complaints
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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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Jim Beaugez
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June 22, 2025
Novelist Michael Farris Smith returns with ‘Lay Down Your Armor,’ new album
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Matt Friedeman
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June 22, 2025
The glue that holds people together
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C.H. Spurgeon
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June 22, 2025
A mournful list of honors
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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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