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June 27, 2008
Senator Roger Wicker (R) supports bill to encourage oil exploration and new technology
U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today helped introduce the Gas Price Reduction Act of 2008, legislation designed to address the high price of gas at the pump. The legislation, which has 42 cosponsors, is part of an effort by Senate Republicans to reach out to their Democratic colleagues in order to find common ground on…
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June 27, 2008
OE – Hundreds ask for leniency for Scruggses, Backstrom
Former “60 Minutes” producer Lowell Bergman and tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand are among those who wrote to Biggers on Scruggs’ behalf. All three were portrayed in the movie “The Insider,” starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe. “You have before you a rare man, who has made comforting the afflicted a calling,” Bergman said. “I…
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June 26, 2008
Prosecutors subpoena Grady Tollison for sentencing
Prosecutors subpoena Scruggs adversary for sentencing The attorney opposing Dickie Scruggs in the lawsuit that led to his downfall has been subpoenaed to testify for prosecutors Friday morning at Scruggs’ sentencing hearing. “I’ve been subpoenaed, that’s a fact,” said Grady Tollison, who was working in shirtsleeves and suspenders this morning in his second-floor perch on…
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June 26, 2008
YP – A Catch 22 Situation for Dickie Scruggs & Rigsby Gals in Judge Acker’s Court
OK YallPolitics Nation. Time to put on your thinking caps and follow the bouncing ball . . . In what can only be described as a bizarre series of filings in the last 48 hours in the Renfroe vs. Rigsby Gals case in Judge Acker’s Court, Scruggs now announces to the Court that he now…
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June 26, 2008
Perry on Ronnie Musgrove – Questionable judgment
Questionable judgment Over the years, Musgrove received more than $150,000 in campaign contributions from Minor and $92,000 in contributions from Scruggs, who also secured Musgrove a $75,000 loan during his run for lieutenant governor. The NRSC dubs Scruggs and Minor: Musgrove’s “dependable duo.” The NRSC notes Musgrove’s official 2000 Inaugural program recognizes both Minor and…
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June 26, 2008
Medicaid: Get with funding program or go home
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 6/26/8 Two years of partisan bickering is more than enough regarding Medicaid funding. Mississippi taxpayers have underwritten the costs of a 2008 special session to contain a political drama that’s been playing for two years. That absolutely is enough. When lawmakers return today to resume the special session battle over how to…
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June 26, 2008
HUD OKs Coast housing plan
The Clarion-Ledger, 6/26/8 The federal government has approved Mississippi’s $350 million plan to produce thousands of housing units on the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast. U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston approved the proposal Wednesday. The money comes from the $5.4 billion in Katrina aid authorized by Congress after the August 2005 storm. HUD said…
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June 26, 2008
Scruggs, government differ on views for sentence
The Mississippi Daily Journal, 6/26/8 Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and the U.S. Probation Office have differences of opinion about how much prison time the Oxford attorney should get for conspiring to bribe a judge. In legal papers filed Wednesday, Scruggs’ attorneys take 15 pages to outline his life and 17 more to explain why he should…
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June 26, 2008
Lawmakers return to find Medicaid fix
The Clarion-Ledger, 6/26/8 State lawmakers will resume a special session today without a compromise on a long-term funding solution for Medicaid, the health insurance program that serves about 600,000 Mississippians. Although House and Senate leaders met for hours on Wednesday, neither side budged on competing proposals to hike tobacco and hospital taxes, or both. Legislative…
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June 26, 2008
Hospital tax isn’t new; it’s a better way
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 6/26/8 The issue facing the Mississippi Legislature is really very simple. Do we want to continue to collect about $200 million a year from hospitals to help fund the Medicaid program – just as we have done for years – or do we want to reduce those payments by…
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June 26, 2008
Wicker addresses oil, immigration issue
The Leader Call, 6/25/8 The high cost of gasoline, the nation’s energy situation and illegal immigrants were some of the issues U.S. Senator Roger Wicker discussed during his recent campaign stop in Jones County. At one of Wicker’s stops, he visited veterans and their families at the Veterans Memorial Museum on Hillcrest Drive. Following a…
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June 26, 2008
YP – US Supreme Court strikes down DC handgun ban
US Supreme Court says individuals have right to own guns striking down the Washington, DC handgun ban. In the justices’ first definitive pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history, they said Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting. Read it here H/t Jane YP 6/26/8
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Bonnie Coblentz
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April 10, 2026
Strategic, unified vision transforms Carthage
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Jeremy Pittari
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April 10, 2026
Miss. Dept. of Health outlines upcoming fiscal year budget
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Jeremy Pittari
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April 10, 2026
Mississippi moves up to 48th in national health rankings
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Susan Marquez
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April 10, 2026
C Spire completes work under Mississippi Capital Projects Fund to expand high-speed, broadband infrastructure
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Daniel Tyson
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April 9, 2026
Amazon investing another $12 billion in Central Mississippi
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Frank Corder
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March 31, 2026
Channel South, $105 million mixed use development, aims to transform Gulfport’s downtown
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Matt Friedeman
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April 12, 2026
Spiritual revival – Is the key actually wanting “less”
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Marilyn Tinnin
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April 10, 2026
Joan Williams: Gifted author and Faulkner’s protégé
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Alistair Begg
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April 10, 2026
Protected by His presence
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Roger Wicker
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April 10, 2026
Rebuilding the American arsenal
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Russ Latino
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April 8, 2026
The truth about ACA subsidies after the “One Big Beautiful Bill”
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Sid Salter
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April 8, 2026
A new take on an old question about who Mississippians trust with life-altering decisions
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