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July 15, 2008
Congressman Travis Childers (D) – Drill offshore & in ANWR . . . build more refineries
Today, Congressman Travis Childers (D-MS) announced his six-point energy plan to address skyrocketing fuel costs. The Congressman’s plan provides both short term-relief to help North Mississippians cope with rising gas prices and long-term solutions to the nation’s overall energy crisis. In order to move a large portion of his energy plan into law, Congressman Childers…
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July 15, 2008
SH – Backstrom granted prison choice
Backstrom granted prison choice Attorney Sidney Backstrom has been notified that he should report to a low-security prison camp in Arkansas to spend 28 months in prison for conspiring with Dickie Scruggs to bribe a state court judge. Backstrom had asked when he was sentenced to serve his time in Arkansas because he will be…
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July 15, 2008
Where’s Obama? McCain asks
Where’s Obama? McCain asks At nearly every town-hall meeting that John McCain conducts with voters these days, he stops to point out someone missing from the room: Barack Obama. “I’ve asked Senator Obama to join me in town halls across the nation,” McCain said here the other morning. His notion was that the two of…
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July 14, 2008
Barbour: Cuts in 23 days. Is Medicaid going under the knife?
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 7/13/8 Unless either House Democrats or Republican Gov. Haley Barbour retreat from current positions over the next three weeks, Mississippi Medicaid recipients could begin feeling massive budget cuts as soon as Aug. 4. Barbour notified the state’s Medicaid providers on Friday of his intention to cut $34.5 million per month from the…
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July 14, 2008
Two sides to FEMA’s surplus declaration
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 7/13/8 Last Sunday, I wrote about a recent visit to the Gulf Coast and the very complex problems that still confront many Mississippians there – problems of affordable housing, insurance woes and the difficulty in rebuilding one’s life in that struggling environment. Want to criticize the Federal Emergency Management Agency? I’ll help…
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July 14, 2008
Medicaid: Politics, not policy, at issue issue
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 7/13/8 Gov. Haley Barbour has formulated what appears to be a fair, sustainable funding mechanism for Medicaid in the long term that might, just might, keep Medicaid from being a political football every few years. The failure of the Legislature to provide stable funding for the Medicaid program lawmakers authorize is a…
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July 14, 2008
Barbour: Hospitals may close
The Clarion-Ledger, 7/12/8 Some hospitals and nursing homes could shut down, doctors could stop seeing patients and thousands of health- care workers could lose their jobs statewide, according to providers responding to $375 million in Medicaid cuts revealed late Friday. The cuts also would affect home health care agencies, pharmacists, dentists and others, according to…
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July 14, 2008
Death row inmate: Jury selection unfair
The Clarion-Ledger, 7/14/8 A federal appeals court should throw out Paul Woodward’s death sentence because prosecutors plotted to keep blacks off a Jackson County jury, according to Woodward’s attorneys. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled a hearing on the issue for Sept. 3 in New Orleans. The panel did not rule on…
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July 14, 2008
Melton wants former lawmaker for Municipal Court judge
The Clarion-Ledger, 7/14/8 Jackson Mayor Frank Melton said he plans to tap former state Rep. John Reeves as the replacement for Municipal Court Judge Melvin Priester. Priester, who was appointed by Melton in 2005, was promoted by the Mississippi Supreme Court on Friday. Priester will be one of two new special judges to assist Hinds…
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July 14, 2008
State lawmaker returns to Vietnam
The Clarion-Ledger, 7/14/8 It was May 1968 when a then-21-year-old John Mayo climbed into a plane in Saigon, Vietnam, and headed back to the United States after 18 months of war, much of which was served as a lieutenant platoon leader in a combat engineer battalion. “When I left during the war I really didn’t…
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July 14, 2008
Obama would send 2 more brigades to Afghanistan
Obama would send 2 more brigades to Afghanistan “As president, I would pursue a new strategy, and begin by providing at least two additional combat brigades to support our effort in Afghanistan,” Obama said in an op-ed published Monday in The New York Times, a day before he plans a speech here on his vision…
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July 14, 2008
Bush to lift executive ban on offshore drilling
Bush to lift executive ban on offshore drilling In another push to deal with soaring gas prices, President Bush on Monday will lift an executive ban on offshore drilling that his stood since his father was president. But the move, by itself, will do nothing unless Congress acts as well. The president plans to officially…
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Jeremy Pittari
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January 26, 2026
Senate Education Committee sets sights on increasing math skills, financial literacy
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Frank Corder
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January 26, 2026
Governor Reeves confirms 2 deaths, 2 injured from winter storm
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Frank Corder
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January 26, 2026
Absentee voting opens ahead of March 10 Midterm Primary Elections
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Frank Corder
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January 20, 2026
SouthWorth acquires Mississippi-based American Furniture Manufacturing
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Frank Corder
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January 13, 2026
Higgins contracted to lead Tate County economic development
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Frank Corder
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January 8, 2026
xAI investing more than $20 billion in Southaven data center
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Robert St. John
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January 26, 2026
The best thing that ever happened to me
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Alistair Begg
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January 26, 2026
Show no partiality
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Matt Friedeman
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January 25, 2026
Repentance
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Hunter Estes
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January 21, 2026
Mississippi Legislators: Be bold this session
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Philip Wegmann
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January 21, 2026
Trump OMB launches full review of federal funds sent to blue states
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Russ Latino
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January 21, 2026
Quit the hysteria, Mississippi already allows students to transfer between public schools
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