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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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December 19, 2008
Beef plant CEO gets 16-month sentence
Beef plant CEO gets 16-month sentence Moultrie and others first raised $70,000 for Musgrove. When issues with the plant surfaced, court documents say, Moultrie and a co-defendant talked about giving him $25,000 more “should his assistance be needed on the potential problems with the project.” “Ronnie Musgrove never did anything wrong,” Moultrie told Judge Michael…
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December 19, 2008
DJ – Moultrie gets 16 months for beef plant plea
Moultrie gets 16 months for beef plant plea Moultrie said after the sentencing, “This is not about Robert Moultrie. This is not about The Facilities Group. It’s been about getting Ronnie Musgrove. I’m an innocent man pleading guilty to an illegal gratuity.” Musgrove, a Democrat, ran for the U.S. Senate seat vacated last year by…
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December 19, 2008
NMC – That post I deleted a couple of months ago
That post I deleted a couple of months ago I saw Schnauzer’s post almost immediately after it went up, and then started getting emails from people telling me I should see it (some of whom were clearly hoping it would get blogged for partisan reasons). Later, I learned that it was also being sent to…
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December 19, 2008
MillerCoors to reformulate caffeinated beer . . . will MS soon outlaw Jack & Coke?
MillerCoors to reformulate Sparks energy drink Milwaukee-based MillerCoors agreed to remove caffeine, taurine, guarana and ginseng from Sparks and not produce caffeinated alcohol beverages in the future. The company also will pay $550,000 to cover the cost of the investigation into Sparks. The money will be split between the states and San Francisco, MillerCoors spokesman…
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December 19, 2008
Senator Doug Davis pre-filed legislation making sale of babies in Mississippi illegal
DAVIS FILES BILL TO PROTECT MISSISSIPPI’S CHILDREN Today State Senator Doug Davis (R-Hernando) pre-filed legislation making the sale of babies in Mississippi illegal. If passed, the new law would mean any one convicted of ‘baby-selling’ would be fined up to $20,000 and sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in prison. “It is important we…
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December 19, 2008
Robert Moultrie gets 16 months for beef plant . . . gripes about politics to press
Robert Moultrie gets 16 months in prison . . . gripes about politics to press The Moultries spoke with reporters after he was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills to 16 months in federal prison for his guilty plea to making an illegal gratuity – in this case, a $25,0000 political action committee…
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December 19, 2008
Hinds DA loses motion in murder trial – DA then goes after Judge Yerger’s administrator in hearing
Hinds DA loses motion in murder trial Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith failed today to get the authority to charge senior Circuit Judge Swan Yerger’s court administrator with a crime for whiting out the judge’s signature on a document. Yerger testified at the show cause hearing in Hinds County Circuit Court that his…
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December 19, 2008
The lionization of Joey Langston by the Jackson Free “I never met a felon I didn’t like” Press
Langston Suit Fraught with Politics The state is currently suing the attorneys and the Langston Law Firm to return $14 million paid to them by MCI/WorldCom in a $126.2 million tax-fraud settlement with the state in 2005. WorldCom agreed to give the state $100 million in cash and ownership of WorldCom’s downtown property, and it…
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Jeremy Pittari
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May 7, 2026
Wednesday night storm spawns several tornadoes that damage hundreds of homes in three counties
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Frank Corder
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May 6, 2026
Speaker White names House Select Committees to tackle property taxes, school consolidation, redistricting, more
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Daniel Tyson
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May 6, 2026
Job training life-affirming for inmates in MAGCOR programs
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Frank Corder
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April 23, 2026
Mississippi companies invited to participate in 2026 Southeastern U.S.–Canadian Provinces Conference
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Frank Corder
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April 22, 2026
Corderill investing $100 million at Meridian data center campus
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Frank Corder
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April 17, 2026
Walmart announces plan to remodel 19 Mississippi stores
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Alistair Begg
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May 8, 2026
The cost of complaining
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Susan Marquez
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May 7, 2026
Noah “Soggy” Sweat’s “The Whiskey Speech” to be presented at Two Mississippi Museums
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Alistair Begg
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May 7, 2026
Purchased for God
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Russ Latino
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May 8, 2026
Something for everyone to hate in the redistricting debate
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Christy Hovanetz
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May 6, 2026
Mississippi is raising the bar, and that’s a really good thing for kids
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Russ Latino
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May 5, 2026
Mississippi faces pressure to redistrict before congressional midterms, but also real world constraints
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