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April 14, 2008
Barbour e-mails come at high cost
The Clarion-Ledger, 4/14/8 Seeking government transparency can be costly. Using the state’s public-records law, The Clarion-Ledger in February asked Gov. Haley Barbour’s office to produce four days’ worth of e-mails from Barbour’s staff of about 40 people. The governor’s office replied on March 27 with a cost estimate of $14,170.48. Leslie Graves, president of the…
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April 14, 2008
Names will stay on ballot, Hood decides
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 4/13/8 Steve Holland’s and Glenn McCullough Jr.’s names will stay on the 1st District Congress ballot for the April 22 non-party special election, a state Attorney General’s opinion stated Friday. Democrat Holland of Plantersville and Republican McCullough of Tupelo lost their bids April 1 to become their respective party nominees…
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April 14, 2008
Special election Q&A
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 4/14/8 On April 22, voters in the 1st Congressional District will select a congressman to complete the term of Roger Wicker, who in December was appointed to the U.S. Senate. The special election will be nonpartisan, meaning all candidates will be on the same ballot and voters can select the…
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April 14, 2008
Air safety: Mechanical systems demand scrutiny
The Clarion-Ledger, 4/14/8 Thousands of inconvenienced air travelers may not like delayed or canceled flights while mechanics go over aircraft systems, but passenger safety should come first. The real question is how it came to be that potentially dangerous conditions have been allowed to develop on aircraft. Cancellations are likely to spread to other carriers…
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April 14, 2008
Legislature ’08: Foregone revenues
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 4/13/8 While scrambling for additional revenue to fund Medicaid, improve public education, build highways, pay for prisons and provide a host of other necessary government functions, the Mississippi Legislature is leaving sales tax money on the table. Americans spend over $136 billion annually on online purchases. One of the reasons those sales…
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April 14, 2008
A look back at legislative session
The Clarion-Ledger, 4/13/8 Ninety-seven days ago today, the 2008 legislative session was gaveled to order. Many lawmakers vowed to make sure public education, Medicaid other needs were properly funded. Passing meaningful legislation was a priority. But with one week left before they go home, how much did lawmakers accomplish? What’s left undone? Here is a…
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April 14, 2008
Lawyers seek to restore trust
The Sun Herald, 4/13/8 Attorneys are discussing what changes are needed to restore confidence in Mississippi’s legal system after five of their own pleaded guilty in a judicial bribery case and a federal judge on the Coast cited several law firms for breaching legal ethics in Katrina insurance cases. “I can’t imagine anything worse than…
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April 14, 2008
Draining a national treasure
The Sun Herald Editorial, 4/13/8 T he Department of Energy spent much of last week trying to explain to people how taking 50 million gallons of water a day from the Pascagoula River, using it to dissolve salt from a salt dome, then pumping the brine out into water south of Horn Island is a…
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April 14, 2008
RED/BLUE – First Congressional District Politics
First Congressional District Politics The only way Childers can pull off a victory is to reverse what happened four years ago on the east side. Can he convince a quarter of the voters on the east side to switch from 2004 and cast a Democratic ballot in the congressional race? Are there enough voters willing…
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April 14, 2008
RED/BLUE – Shoot-out at the PA Corral
Shoot-out at the PA Corral I don’t really know which seems stranger to me: hearing Hillary Clinton act the champion of gun owners after her husband reigned over what was perhaps the most anti-Second Amendment administration of the twentieth century, or watching Barack Obama explain his fealty to the Second Amendment after claiming that working…
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April 14, 2008
Abortion bill evolves into internal struggle for Miss. House
Abortion bill evolves into internal struggle for Miss. House McCoy, a populist Democrat from Rienzi, appoints House committee chairmen. He has voted for several abortion restrictions in the past. But if he sticks with his chairman on this bill, as expected, the Republicans want to pressure rural Democrats to break away from the speaker on…
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April 14, 2008
FOLO – What was Bill Skinner thinking?
What was Bill Skinner thinking? So my curiosity has only grown. Except for Oliver Diaz’s recent interview with Raw Story — which, judging by the reaction here, also seems not to have worked quite as intended — I can’t recall seeing a judge respond directly to a newspaper or blog before FOLO 4/14/8
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Jeremy Pittari
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August 21, 2025
U.S. Secretary of Education makes two stops in Oxford
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Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press
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August 21, 2025
Appeals court throws out massive civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump
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Mike Schneider, Associated Press
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August 21, 2025
Illegal immigration hit a record-high of 14 million in the US in 2023, Pew report finds
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Lynne Jeter
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August 20, 2025
Mississippi Cyber and Technology Center project marks major milestone
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Lynne Jeter
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August 12, 2025
CoBuilders 2025 Launch Day: Mississippi’s innovation ecosystem takes center stage
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Daniel Tyson
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August 11, 2025
What is Mississippi’s pitch to corporations looking to invest in the Magnolia State?
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Susan Marquez
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August 21, 2025
Let’s Eat, Mississippi: Tom’s Fried Pies
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Alistair Begg
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August 21, 2025
A throne forever
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Robbie Faulk, Associated Press
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August 20, 2025
Mississippi State working to bounce back from rough first season under Jeff Lebby
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Sid Salter
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August 20, 2025
Natchez’s Greg Iles saved his best writing for his reflective “Natchez Burning” trilogy
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Philip Wegmann
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August 19, 2025
Trump vows Social Security will thrive for another ‘90 years’
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Josh Appel
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August 18, 2025
C.S. Lewis in the Age of Bleakness
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