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May 30, 2008
Miss. House kills effort to increase cigarette tax _ for now
Miss. House kills effort to increase cigarette tax _ for now The Democratic-led Mississippi House fell short Thursday night in an effort to inject cigarette and liquor taxes into a complicated formula to shore up the anemic Medicaid budget. The chamber killed a bill that included a 1 percent sales tax on wine and hard…
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May 30, 2008
State Sen. Chris McDaniel – Nothing special about this session
Nothing special about this session I’m not feeling very special, even though we are technically experiencing what many call a special session. Instead, I prefer the term “extraordinary session,” since the House of Representatives has been extraordinarily and arbitrarily absent from its Constitutional duties. I’m really not sure what to call it, frankly. If not…
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May 30, 2008
FOLO – Scruggs D-Day rescheduled already – now it’s 7/2
Update: Judge Biggers reschedules sentencing for July 2nd Judge Biggers has rescheduled the sentencing for July 2nd. Here’s the Amended Sentencing Order. From the order: “Richard F. Dickie Scruggs at 10:00 a.m., Sidney A. Backstrom at 2:00 p.m., David Zachary Scruggs at 3:00?. FOLO 5/29/8 FOLO 5/29/8
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May 30, 2008
BREAKING – D-Day for Dickie Scruggs et. al. . . . Sentencing on 6/18
Hot off the presses . . . the sentencing order from Judge Neal Biggers. The court sets the sentencings herein for the three above-named defendants on Wednesday, June 18, 2008, as follows: 10:00 a.m. – Richard “Dickie” Scruggs 2:00 p.m. – Sidney A. Backstrom 3:00 p.m. – David Zachary Scruggs
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May 30, 2008
An intimate portrait of Jack Nicklaus
An intimate portrait of Jack Nicklaus WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — For the past few days, Jack Nicklaus has been sick, listing a bit, even telling his oldest son he might need to lean on him. As he pulls his gold Lexus onto the tarmac of Signature Flight Service, he’s still considering canceling this trip.…
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May 29, 2008
Gallo Notes-Is There Toyota Trouble in Tupelo?
Gallo Notes-May 29, 2008 Several weeks ago Toyota announced they were delaying the opening of the Mississippi plant that will build the Highlander SUV. Toyota has also announced a scaled back production of its Tundra pickup truck that has found favor even with longtime and loyal Ford and GM buyers. Mike O’Brien oversees Toyota’s U.S.…
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May 29, 2008
House authorizes bonds to help bring laboratory to Flora
The Clarion-Ledger, 5/29/8 Members of the Mississippi House authorized $88 million in bonds Wednesday to try to lure a multimillion-dollar project to Mississippi. A House bill that hikes unemployment benefits higher than the Senate version also advanced on the fourth day of a special session, but it appears headed for negotiations between the two chambers.…
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May 29, 2008
Miss. high court to hear appeal from convicted murderer
The Clarion-Ledger, 5/28/8 The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear an appeal from convicted murderer Herman Avara, who contends he has new evidence that might win him another trial in the death of Mamie Arnold. A Pike County judge rejected Avara’s post-conviction petition in 2006. The state Court of Appeals sided with the trial judge in…
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May 29, 2008
Wicker Up With First Senate Campaign Ad
CBS News, 5/27/8 With over five months to go until the general election, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) is already airing an ad touting his work in helping secure funding to help rebuild the Gulf Coast part of the state after Hurricane Katrina. “In Congress, Wicker fought for us after Katrina… In Congress, he achieved bipartisan…
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May 29, 2008
Race for Lott’s seat no longer seen as ‘safe for Republicans’
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 5/28/8 Two nonpartisan national political observers with solid track records as students of Mississippi politics say that the Mississippi special election to choose a permanent successor to former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott is now a legitimate horse race. Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the Rothenberg Political Report and longtime columnist for Roll Call…
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May 29, 2008
Teacher pay: Lawmakers get an ‘A’ and an ‘F’
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 5/28/8 Mississippi legislators this regular session get an “A” grade for increasing the salaries of experienced teachers, but any gains they hoped in retaining teachers could be dashed by failing to provide other raises. Mississippi has been plagued by the national teacher shortage, made worse by low state teacher salaries that can’t…
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May 29, 2008
Groups debate whether felons should regain the right to vote
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 5/28/8 When asked about his favorite candidate in this year’s presidential race, 31-year-old Steven Hubbard didn’t hesitate to say, “Obama’s my man.” But that’s where his political voice ends. Hubbard, a convicted felon from Tupelo, is one of nearly 150,000 inmates and convicted felons in Mississippi who’ve lost their right…
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Jeremy Pittari
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June 6, 2025
State funding for Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning down from previous year
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Mark Sherman, Associated Press
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June 6, 2025
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to leave mass layoffs at Education Department in place
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Daniel Tyson
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June 6, 2025
Legal fight over control of Jackson airport continues
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Paul Wiseman, Associated Press
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June 6, 2025
Hiring in the US slows, though employers still added a solid 139,000 jobs in May
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Frank Corder
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May 19, 2025
Modine expanding data center cooling equipment manufacturing in Grenada County
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Lynne Jeter
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May 19, 2025
Goldman Sachs honors inaugural Mississippi small business graduating class
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Meredith Biesinger
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June 6, 2025
Take a Dip this Summer: Your guide to Mississippi’s best water parks
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C.H. Spurgeon
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June 6, 2025
Have I betrayed Him?
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Ben Smith
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June 5, 2025
Love God, love family, and shoot ducks
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Russ Latino
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June 6, 2025
Make America Boring Again
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Sid Salter
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June 4, 2025
Bo Robinson, appointed to PSC after jarring corruption scandals, dies at age 90
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Kimberly Ross
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June 3, 2025
The American epidemic of loneliness
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