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April 7, 2008
Hotel tax hike has slim chance, lawmaker says
The Clarion-Ledger, 4/7/8 A bill that would increase the hotel-motel occupancy tax from 75 cents to $4.25 per room per night has a slim chance of getting through the state Legislature. Rep. Credell Calhoun, D-Jackson, is cautiously optimistic about House Bill 1710, which is meant to raise the salaries of Jackson police officers. “There are…
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April 7, 2008
Salt dome hearings start this week
The Clarion-Ledger, 4/7/8 The U.S. Department of Energy begins a series of hearings this week into the government’s proposal to use water from the Pascagoula River to clear out salt domes in Perry County for storage of the nation’s oil reserves. The first public hearing is today at 6 p.m. in New Augusta at the…
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April 7, 2008
Damage mounts as cleanup continues
The Clarion-Ledger, 4/7/8 The damage estimate from Friday’s tornadoes kept growing Sunday as cleanup continued. Almost 20,000 residents statewide remained without power late Sunday night. About 6,000-7,000 homes in the metro area were damaged, and about 50 homes and eight mobile homes were destroyed, Hinds County Emergency Operations Center Director Larry Fisher said Sunday. The…
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April 7, 2008
House, Senate divided over Medicaid funding
The Commercial Dispatch, 4/5/8 The Mississippi House and Senate are divided on how to keep the state Medicaid program from running out of money, but lawmakers will be struggling this week to keep that from happening. The state’s $4 billion Medicaid program is projected to go bust by April 20 — prompting doomsday scenarios of…
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April 7, 2008
House puts ‘sin tax’ hike on the table
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 4/5/8 The Mississippi House decided Friday that a tax increase on cigarettes and liquor should be considered in negotiations to solve the Medicaid shortfall. “You negotiate with all the cards on the table,” said Rep. George Flaggs, D-Vicksburg. “If Medicaid is so important, why don’t we place all the cards…
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April 7, 2008
Mississippi may help test Medicare project
The Clarion-Ledger, 4/5/8 Mississippi may be in the running to serve as one of a dozen test sites across the country for a new Medicare project that would provide incentives for private physicians to start using electronic health records. Gov. Haley Barbour and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt met this week…
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April 7, 2008
Scruggs Nation, April 5: the fall of the Scruggs Katrina Empire
The Insurance Coverage Blog, 4/5/8 Regarding yesterday’s news of the disqualification from Katrina cases of the Katrina Litigation Group, the entity derived from the former Scruggs Katrina Group and containing three of the original five firms, what will happen now? It’s hard to overstate how big a development in Katrina litigation this is. Remember as…
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April 7, 2008
Senate: Unique factors shaping race
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 4/6/8 As Mississippi State University Stennis Institute of Government director Marty Wiseman points out in his commentary in “Perspective” today, state voters haven’t chosen a new U.S. senator in a special election since they chose John Stennis in 1947. It was a fateful choice. Stennis went on to amass vast power and…
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April 7, 2008
Legislature ’08: Much work remains
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 4/6/8 The 2008 legislative session has seen “progress” on feel-good legislation to snooker voters into thinking they’ve actually done something that will have any miniscule impact on the flow of illegal immigration. There has also been “progress” on that crucial issue of how best to put corn on the ground so that…
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April 7, 2008
Scruggs scandal developments, February 5
Overlawyered, 4/5/8 * Pertinacious Scruggs effort to evade deposition by State Farm attorneys results in “testosterone fiesta” of swaggering counsel (Folo; sequel; YallPolitics; Rossmiller); (P.S. Yes, Ted and I independently noticed and posted on this just minutes apart.) * Remember when Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood declared his political patron Scruggs a “confidential informant”, thus…
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April 7, 2008
WSJLAWBLOG – Lawyers in State Farm Suits Barred for Payments to Witnesses
Lawyers in State Farm Suits Barred for Payments to Witnesses Last June, long before L’Affaire Scruggs was even a glimmer in the public’s eye, the Law Blog noted that a judge recommended that the feds prosecute Scruggs for violating a court order related to the handling of documents in Hurricane Katrina insurance cases. The judge…
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April 5, 2008
SH – Katrina lawyers disqualified
Katrina lawyers disqualified Former Attorney General Mike Moore advised Hood during settlement negotiations that ended the criminal investigation and later worked with Scruggs on policyholder cases, but he had withdrawn from those cases before Senter’s ruling. Another SKG member firm withdrew from the group in early 2007 and sued Scruggs, saying he was not fairly…
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January 22, 2026
Millions of Americans prepare for potentially catastrophic ice storm. Here’s what the numbers show
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Daniel Tyson
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January 22, 2026
Mississippi could soon lead in lithium extraction, experts say
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Daniel Tyson
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January 22, 2026
DiBiase defense seeks a mistrial in federal welfare fraud case
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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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Meredith Biesinger
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January 22, 2026
The Case of the Dining Detectives: A Mississippi food story with a twist
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Alistair Begg
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January 22, 2026
Teaching with integrity
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Marilyn Tinnin
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January 21, 2026
Accidental Celebrity: Stafford Shurden of Drew, Mississippi
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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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