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November 12, 2008
State agencies brace for $42M in cuts
The Clarion-Ledger, 11/11/8 Gov. Haley Barbour said today he will announce Wednesday $42 million worth of budget cuts to state agencies. The Republican governor did not specify which agencies will be cut. At Barbour’s request, most departments have told him what the impact of 2 percent cuts would be. But an across-the-board, 2 percent cut…
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November 11, 2008
Council votes down $2-per-hour raise
The Clarion-Ledger, 11/11/8 The Jackson City Council on Monday voted down continuing to give low-paid public works employees a $2-per-hour raise. The raise, proposed by Mayor Frank Melton, would have been paid for with almost $1.3 million in city savings and the entire Department of Public Works’ overtime budget, which is about $218,000. Council members…
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November 11, 2008
Judge orders Draper to start repayments in beef case
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 11/11/8 James A. Draper, a Tennessee man found guilty in the Mississippi Beef Processors scandal, has been ordered to pay $187,725 in restitution to the State Auditor’s Office. In July, he was found guilty of defrauding the state and laundering that amount through his own personal account in 2002 in…
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November 11, 2008
Historic election drew record voters
The Clarion-Ledger, 11/11/8 Last Tuesday’s historic presidential election drew 113,358 more Mississippians to the polls than in 2004, according to unofficial numbers released Monday from the secretary of state. That record-setting total of 1.27 million is expected to increase as election workers continue counting affidavit and absentee ballots. Certified election results are not due to…
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November 11, 2008
Melton trial delayed
Melton trial delayed U.S. District Court Judge Dan Jordan this morning agreed to a request by defense attorneys to delay the civil rights violation trial of Jackson Mayor Frank Melton and his former bodyguard until January. Defense attorneys had told the judge they needed more time to review thousands of pages of prosecution material. Jury…
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November 11, 2008
Saban will cash in on dream season
Saban will cash in on dream season Nick Saban doesn’t need any extra motivation to coach the next three games as if Alabama’s spot in the BCS Championship Game depended on them. Saban wouldn’t need extra motivation to pull stomach muscles if he were coaching in the Class 1A playoffs. But he has incentives just…
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November 11, 2008
Saban puts LSU fans in despair
Saban puts LSU fans in despair Walking out of Tiger Stadium on Saturday night, amid the wreckage and debauchery known as the LSU Nation, I couldn’t help but flip the calendar back 52 weeks. On that November night in 2007, LSU survived a bloody brawl in Bryant-Denny Stadium and a small group of their fans…
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November 11, 2008
Georgia congressman warns of Obama dictatorship
A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship. “It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force,” Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday…
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November 11, 2008
Witnesses: 2 shot in dispute over Alabama-LSU game
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/FBC_Couple_Slain_Football.html MOBILE, Ala. — Witnesses said a man and his former wife were shot to death over an argument about the Alabama-Louisiana State University football game, though a spokesman for the slain man’s family disputed that Monday. “Basing it on this ball game is totally false,” said Shannon Odom, the half brother of Dennis James…
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November 11, 2008
Mal Moore: I appreciate it more than you know
Mal Moore: I appreciate it more than you know The Alabama players raced toward a Tiger Stadium end zone to swarm John Parker Wilson and celebrate Saturday’s 27-21 victory over LSU in overtime, the program’s biggest win in nine years. It was a time for wild acts of jubilation. Yet the man ultimately responsible stood…
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November 10, 2008
Fears over Obama’s presidency irrational
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 11/9/8 Growing up in rural Mississippi, one gets accustomed to listening to hyperbole and provocation when angry, frightened or ignorant people talk about race – be they white or black. But the election of Democrat Barack Obama as the nation’s first black president has produced incidences of those kinds of discussions that…
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November 10, 2008
EDITORIAL:MAEP at risk
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 11/10/8 Mississippi, hardly alone among the states, is faced with some serious governmental budget-tightening in the coming months. State government revenues for the first quarter of the 2009 fiscal year that began in July were down 2.3 percent, or $35 million, from official estimates used to formulate the budget.…
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Jeremy Pittari
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May 5, 2025
Mississippi 98% compliant as REAL ID deadline nears
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Daniel Tyson
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May 5, 2025
Crockett reminds Tougaloo grads “how to use a chair” in commencement address
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Rebecca Santana, Associated Press
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May 5, 2025
Trump administration says it’ll pay immigrants in the US illegally $1,000 to leave the country
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Frank Corder
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April 23, 2025
Amazon locating inbound cross dock operations in Marshall County, creating 1,000 jobs
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Lynne Jeter
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April 17, 2025
GE Aerospace moving at warp speed in Batesville
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Lynne Jeter
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April 15, 2025
ABB doubling size of operations in Tate County
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Parrish Alford
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May 5, 2025
Selmon under pressure to protect Mississippi State’s baseball legacy with next hire
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Robert St. John
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May 5, 2025
A spring of celebrations
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C.H. Spurgeon
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May 5, 2025
The storm of God’s wrath
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Sid Salter
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April 30, 2025
Is a new era in federal natural disaster relief something Mississippi can easily navigate?
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Bill Crawford
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April 27, 2025
Model Utah program considered by legislature unfairly denigrated
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Courtney Taylor
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April 25, 2025
Inside Mississippi’s workforce reset: Reduce waste, cut overhead, create results
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