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March 3, 2009
PETTUS – Many voters judge politicos’ support for issues on funding
Many voters judge politicos’ support for issues on funding Supporters said activities such as youth baseball tournaments are good for economic development because they attract hundreds of out-of-towners who pay for meals, gasoline and hotel rooms. They also said young people need places for healthful, productive activities so they can stay off the streets and…
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March 3, 2009
$8 Million for MS-01 – Travis Childers votes against spending bill
Childers lands $8 million for district Rep. Travis Childers, though still a newcomer to the congressional funding game, appears to have learned well based on the $8 million secured for his district in the $410 billion Omnibus Appropriations bill approved by the House Wednesday night. Missing from the list of district-wide projects on the list,…
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March 2, 2009
Bryant endorses Walker for mayor
The Sun Herald, 2/28/9 Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant has endorsed Ocean Springs mayoral candidate Scott Walker in a move Walker welcomes, but his opponents say state officials shouldn’t be involved in local elections. Walker, a Republican and former staffer for former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott and current U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, said he has campaigned…
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March 2, 2009
House passes Jackson tax bill
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/28/9 Jackson voters could decide in June whether to raise sales taxes to help pay for improvements to roads and public safety – under a bill that has cleared both chambers of the Legislature. But another bill that would allow parts of Rankin County to come out from the county’s dry laws has…
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March 2, 2009
Immigrant poverty bill may die
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/2/9 Some Mississippi lawmakers believe it’s vital to determine the impact immigration has on Mississippi’s persistent poverty, but legislation to create a task force for the study may not survive Tuesday’s deadline. House Select Poverty Committee Chairwoman Reecy Dickson, D-Macon, authored House Bill 664 for a task force made up of legislators, officials…
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March 2, 2009
Attorneys dispute Scruggs violation
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/2/9 Zach Scruggs’ attorneys dispute that he violated the terms of his release from federal prison to a halfway house in Tupelo. Scruggs, 34, was arrested Friday by the Bureau of Prisons and placed in the Lafayette County jail after someone reported seeing him eating on the Oxford Square with his family Tuesday.…
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March 2, 2009
Metro-area stimulus plans up in the air
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/2/9 Local governments are still outlining projects tapped for federal stimulus money even though there are a lot of unanswered questions for the state as well. “We are going to stimulus college right now,” said Dan Turner, press secretary for Gov. Haley Barbour. “A lot of us are going to be forced to…
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March 2, 2009
Medicaid: Help, but no real stability
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 3/2/9 The 174 members of the Mississippi Legislature must have their pockets full of four-leaf clovers, rabbit feet and all other manner of lucky charms. Or perhaps when it comes to funding Medicaid, lawmakers are simply living right. The federal stimulus plan that Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed into law…
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March 2, 2009
Legislature opposes traffic light cameras
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 3/2/9 The Legislature’s collective populism is manifesting itself through its opposition to cameras that would monitor traffic-light violations. Earlier this session, the state House, led in large part by Reps. Mark DuVall, D-Mantachie, and Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, passed legislation that would, at the least, ban any additional governments from placing…
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March 2, 2009
Miss. would get billions if spending bill OK’d
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/2/9 Mississippi would receive hundreds of millions of dollars from a massive spending bill the House approved last week. The $410 billion omnibus spending bill would pay for government operations through September. It became necessary after Congress failed to finish work last year on most spending bills that fund federal agencies. The Senate…
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March 2, 2009
Medicaid’s next miracle? Stimulus could provide state up to $790 million provide $520-$72 million
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 3/1/9 While Republican Gov. Haley Barbour and Democratic House Speaker Billy McCoy have sparred philosophically over accepting portions of the $787 billion federal stimulus package for unemployment benefits, there is no disagreement among state Democrats and Republicans over accepting stimulus funds to bail out the state’s struggling Medicaid program. “We’ve been so…
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March 2, 2009
Stanford official is free on bond
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/28/9 An executive of Stanford Financial Group is free on $300,000 bond after a court hearing Friday where she was painted variously as the scapegoat for what regulators call a massive Ponzi scheme and as one of the few who knows where millions of investors’ dollars are hidden. Baldwyn, Miss., resident Laura Pendergest-Holt,…
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June 30, 2026
Dispersal of Opioid Settlement funds nears
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Russ Latino
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June 29, 2026
Hinds County DA Jody Owens pleads guilty in Jackson bribery case, resigns from office
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Frank Corder
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June 29, 2026
Nine Mississippi sites listed in National Register of Historic Places so far in 2026
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June 23, 2026
Keytronic announces $8.89 million expansion in Corinth
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June 17, 2026
Gould Industries locating in southwest Mississippi
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June 16, 2026
U.S. Army contracts with General Atomics for long-range maneuvering projectile program
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June 30, 2026
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June 30, 2026
A solid diet
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Russ Latino
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