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August 6, 2008
Paris Hilton responds to McCain ad
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August 6, 2008
Speaker Billy McCoy can’t take ‘yes’ for an answer
Lawmakers still up in arms over Medicaid deficit “We have spent enough time and taxpayer money without reaching an agreement on funding Medicaid,” said GOP Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant, who presides over the Senate. Bryant and most senators back the measures Barbour announced Friday to change how the state taxes hospitals to draw additional federal…
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August 6, 2008
WICKER – Ronnie Musgrove lost jobs as Governor of Mississippi
Ronnie Musgrove’s story of lost jobs under his watch as Governor continues to change daily, if not by the minute. MYTH 1: Last Wednesday in his speech at the Neshoba county fair Musgrove claimed, “my administration led to the creation of 52,000 new jobs.” http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?s=8763202 MYTH 2: Minutes later, when being asked by WLBT about…
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August 6, 2008
Man heckles Obama about not saying Pledge of Allegiance
A man who wore press credentials and took photographs from a platform interrupted Barack Obama’s town-hall meeting Tuesday by shouting complaints that the Democratic presidential candidate had not called for the audience to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Obama invited the heckler to lead the audience in the pledge, and he did. Attendees at the…
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August 6, 2008
Senate Democrats and House Republicans stay for very different reasons
In the Senate, Democrats are refusing to adjourn for the August recess. Over in the House, Republicans are refusing to leave. Senate Democrats, repeating a tactic they have used all year, staged a lightning-fast pro forma session Tuesday, a procedure that keeps the Senate from officially adjourning and stops President Bush from making “recess appointments”…
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August 5, 2008
Greg Davis comments on “do-nothing Congress”
This morning, Greg Davis expressed his concern that the United States Congress has adjourned as the energy crisis rages on. While key democratic leaders vote to close session and head to their home states, Republican leaders are calling for a Special Session to convene as soon as possible. Davis said, “I am disappointed, but not…
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August 5, 2008
Officials don’t fix health lab woes
The Clarion-Ledger, 8/5/8 Lawmakers failed Monday during a special legislative session to bail out the state Public Health Lab, causing health officials to scramble for solutions. The lab processes more than 600,000 specimens a year, and unless health officials appeal, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is set to revoke the lab’s license Aug.…
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August 5, 2008
Rankin supervisors OK tobacco ban
The Clarion-Ledger, 8/5/8 Along with cigarettes, the spit cups that rest atop many desks in Rankin County government are going the way of the spittoon or the lobby ashtray. They’re gone – banned Monday – after the county Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to prohibit the use of all tobacco in county-owned buildings and vehicles.…
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August 5, 2008
Ethics: Barbour, as others, must obey the law
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 8/5/8 Gov. Haley Barbour signed into law a bill that included regulations for blind trusts, so it shouldn’t even be an issue that his trust remain confidential. He knew full well the stipulations he was signing into law, so why should he question – or seek to evade – it now? Until…
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August 5, 2008
Lawmakers end session at impasse
The Sun Herald, 8/5/8 Mississippi lawmakers have ended a marathon special session without resolving the Medicaid funding impasse, allowing the governor to proceed with his plan to raise taxes on hospitals to generate money for the program. But some legislators say Gov. Haley Barbour’s plan to subject hospitals to higher gross revenue assessments, set to…
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August 5, 2008
Medicaid shortfall resolved, Barbour says
The Clarion-Ledger, 8/5/8 Gov. Haley Barbour said Monday his latest plan to fund Medicaid resolves a monthslong debate over the issue. But the plan has not received formal federal approval. Health-care providers are concerned about the plan’s effects, and there are questions over whether the governor can bypass lawmakers. The Republican governor, who oversees Medicaid,…
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August 5, 2008
Musgrove touts his own record as Miss. governor
The Sun Herald, 8/4/8 Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Ronnie Musgrove says Republican Roger Wicker is making false attacks on him and his record. Musgrove was governor from January 2000 to January 2004. At a press luncheon Monday in Jackson, Musgrove said Wicker is wrong to claim there was a budget deficit when Musgrove left the…
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Matt Ott, Associated Press
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May 1, 2025
The number of Americans filing for jobless claims jumps last week, but remains at healthy levels
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May 1, 2025
Magnolia Mornings: May 1, 2025
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Stan Choe, Associated Press
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April 30, 2025
US stocks sink after a weak report on the economy but then halve their losses after inflation update
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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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Susan Marquez
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May 1, 2025
What’s Happening, Mississippi? Things to do in the Magnolia State in May 2025
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C.H. Spurgeon
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May 1, 2025
The mighty one
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Jim Beaugez
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April 30, 2025
New ‘Super Chikan’ documentary takes viewers into the life of a modern Delta bluesman
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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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