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August 20, 2008
SALTER – Travel flap blemishes McCoy’s reputation as honest broker
Travel flap blemishes McCoy’s reputation as honest broker According to Republican legislators Reps. Mark Baker, R-Brandon, and Rita Martinson, R-Madison, the House Management Committee never voted to approve the expenditure. Worse than than, there’s no precedent for spending taxpayer dollars to pay the expenses of a state legislator to attend a partisan national political convention…
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August 20, 2008
Veteran players may be ally in NFL’s push for rookie cap
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2008-08-19-rookie-cap_N.htm NFL commissioner Roger Goodell may have an ally in his effort to scale back escalating rookies salaries — veteran players. “There’s a lot of guys who have come out and haven’t done much,” says New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith, a first-round draft choice in 2004. “Then you have older guys who have…
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August 20, 2008
Attorney General Tours Building Damaged by Copper Thieves
Attorney General Tours Building Damaged by Copper Thieves Attorney General Hood believes a new law will give his office more power in tracking down, and prosecuting those who benefit from the sale of illegal copper. “It’s amazing the extent that they’ll go through to steal copper out of a building and the damage that they’ll…
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August 20, 2008
POLLTRACKER on Wicker vs. Musgrove
Eye on the Senate: Round-Up of the Latest Polls Mississippi: Roger Wicker, appointed to fill out the term of retired Sen. Trent Lott, has opened a modest lead over former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove, moving from a dead heat last month to a 48 percent to 42 percent advantage in a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted July…
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August 20, 2008
RAMSEYBLOG – House travels
House travels Ellis, who now has the designation of House majority leader, said Monday he would reimburse the state. That is after Republicans revealed the potential expenditure and it hit the media. I have seen a lot of questionable travel for legislators in my time, but nothing so outlandish. Even reimbursing is out of line.…
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August 20, 2008
REDBLUE – Tyrone Ellis & Billy McCoy
Tyrone Ellis & Billy McCoy So, we woke up yesterday morning to Rep. Greg Snowden’s blog post about the travel voucher authorizing Rep. Ellis to travel to the DNC at the same time we hear Paul Gallo on SuperTalk Mississippi Radio disclosing the same information. The Y’all Politics Website links to Snowden’s post, and before…
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August 20, 2008
MSGOP’s White accuses Billy McCoy of breaking House rules in approving DNC expenditure
Mississippi House Speaker Billy McCoy (D-Rienzi) has left a number of questions unanswered in his attempt to explain improper disbursements of taxpayer money to one of his top lieutenants. According to an article in Tuesday’s Clarion Ledger, McCoy said he acted alone in approving state funds for Rep. Tyrone Ellis’s (D-Starkville) trip to the Democratic…
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August 19, 2008
Coxwell withdraws as Melton’s attorney
Coxwell withdraws as Melton’s attorney In a two-page motion filed Monday in federal court, Coxwell informed U.S. District Judge Daniel Jordan that he and the mayor had been unable to reach terms for Coxwell’s continued employment. Melton and his two former police bodyguards, Jackson Police Detectives Marcus Wright and Michael Recio, were indicted last month…
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August 19, 2008
Ronnie Musgrove reports 58% of money from outside Mississippi
Crossing State Lines for More Campaign Money Senate candidates are coming to rely more and more on contributions from outside their home states to keep their campaigns alive, especially in hotly-contested races. In fact, 13 of the 18 Senate candidates in the most contested races this year are relying predominantly on out-of-state donors to fund…
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August 19, 2008
MS ranks as 9th best in US for tort status
The Pacific Research Institute released its report comparing the legal climates of all 50 states. According to the U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report, Florida ranked the worst in terms of tort costs and litigation risks, while North Dakota ranked the best. In a separate ranking, the study also evaluated the tort laws of each…
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August 19, 2008
FOLO – “‘We settled Thursday morning,’ Tollison said.”
8/19/08 – Lawsuit that felled famed attorney settled Alyssa Schnugg Staff Writer The lawsuit against former trial attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs — that led to his being incarcerated — has been settled, Oxford attorney Grady Tollison said this morning. “We settled Thursday morning,” Tollison said. On behalf of Jackson law firm, Jones, Funderburg, Sessums, Peterson…
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August 19, 2008
Coxwell withdraws as Melton’s attorney
Jackson lawyer Buddy Coxwell has withdrawn as attorney for Mayor Frank Melton. In a two-page motion filed Monday in federal court, Coxwell informed U.S. District Judge Daniel Jordan that he and the mayor had been unable to reach terms for Coxwell’s continued employment. Coxwell’s departure leaves Wright as the only defendant with a lawyer in…
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Frank Corder
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October 21, 2025
NRSC, AIPAC among largest contributors to Hyde-Smith in recent campaign finance filing
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Daniel Tyson
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October 21, 2025
Jackson mayor announces homeless task force
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Daniel Tyson
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October 21, 2025
House continues to consider ways to address PERS unfunded liabilities
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October 7, 2025
Averitt Express announces $9.6 million expansion in Richland
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October 2, 2025
Smurfit Westrock expanding in Saltillo
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Lynne Jeter
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September 25, 2025
Jabil establishing $70 million facility in Marshall County
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Meredith Biesinger
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October 21, 2025
Up, Up, and Away: Forty years of the Natchez Balloon Festival
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Alistair Begg
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October 21, 2025
How to overcome jealousy
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Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press
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October 20, 2025
Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns
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Mike Chaney
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October 21, 2025
Historic funding strengthens rural fire protection across Mississippi for another 30 years
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Roger Wicker
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October 17, 2025
Annual defense legislation passed by Senate good for Mississippi, nation
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Russ Latino
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October 16, 2025
Lindsey Whiteside’s DeSoto County sexual predator case reveals an infuriating double standard, dark underbelly of school politics
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