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May 13, 2008

Ethics bill clears governor’s desk

Ethics bill clears governor’s desk A bill intended to make Mississippi government and its elected officials more open and accountable cleared Gov. Haley Barbour’s desk today. Mississippi ethics laws have received a failing grade from the Center for Public Integrity, an ethics watchdog group. Tom Hood, executive director of the Ethics Commission, said the group…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 13, 2008

Scruggs Roundup: DOJ’s Pursuit, New Katrina Lawyers, and the New Yorker’s Take

Scruggs Roundup: DOJ’s Pursuit, New Katrina Lawyers, and the New Yorker’s Take Mississippi — to its economic and political credit — is growing inhospitable to its “rich” tort bar, which, as a result, is becoming “less fabulously rich,” according to the WSJ Edit Page’s Stephen Moore. Reading the opinion piece, we couldn’t help think of…