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January 16, 2008
Support Taylor’s wind bill
The Sun Herald, 1/16/8 Freshman state Sen. David Baria on Tuesday filed a bill seeking a resolution of support for U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor’s multi-perils insurance bill, which is languishing in the U.S. Senate. “I think it is important for the Mississippi Legislature to show its support for Congressman Taylor’s efforts to alleviate the insurance…
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January 16, 2008
Ross Receives Endorsement
WAPT, 1/16/8 State Sen. Charlie Ross will receive an endorsement in his race for Congress. The Home Builders Association announced it will endorse Charlie Ross in his race for the Third Congressional District Wednesday at 10 a.m. in Jackson. Ross announced last month he would run for Chip Pickering’s congressional seat.
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January 16, 2008
Haley Barbour’s 2nd inaugural speech
The Hattiesburg American, 1/16/8 Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican, was sworn in for a second four-year term on Tuesday during a ceremony on the south steps of the state Capitol. Here is the prepared text of his 13-minute inaugural speech:
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January 16, 2008
GOP has big edge on some Senate panels
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 1/15/8 It’s interesting sometimes to look below the surface. During his successful 2007 campaign for lieutenant governor, Phil Bryant stressed that he would place fellow Republicans in the key Senate committee chairs of Appropriations and Finance. To Bryant’s credit, he did not make any bones about it. He was…
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January 16, 2008
Lawmakers look to 2008 session
The Clarion-Ledger, 1/15/8 With gubernatorial inauguruation events half over today, lawmakers turned their attention to the 2008 legislative session amid a partisanship that has increased since Gov. Haley Barbour took office in 2004. Where legislators once voted according to regional and racial lines, many now make decisions based on whether they are Republican or Democrat.…
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January 16, 2008
DJ – Democratic Party challenged by indictments
Democratic Party challenged by indictments The Democrats’ only statewide officeholder, Attorney General Jim Hood, is closely identified with Langston personally and politically. Langston has been a significant contributor to Hood’s campaigns. Hood also hired Langston to seek recovery of money owed Mississippi by MCI, the derelict telecommunications giant that had been headquartered in Mississippi. Langston…
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January 16, 2008
Bardwell’s Take on Hood v. Barbour
Judge DeLaughter’s Opinion: Careful, Thoughtful, And Methodical But substantively, Judge DeLaughter split his decision, essentially handing one win to Gov. Haley Barbour and two to Attorney General Jim Hood. He agreed with Barbour’s argument that the judicial branch could not issue a writ of mandamus against the chief executive — “Even if Mississippi case authorities…
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January 16, 2008
OVERLAWYERED – More about Joseph (“Joey”) Langston, part II
More about Joseph (“Joey”) Langston, part II As a number of commentators have noted (e.g. Brett Kittredge @ Majority in Mississippi, Alan Lange @ YallPolitics), Booneville attorney Joey Langston, who just entered a guilty plea on charges of judicial corruption, is someone accustomed to throwing the weight of his pocketbook around in Mississippi politics. In…
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January 16, 2008
CL – Probe’s reach grows wider
Probe’s reach grows wider Federal prosecutors pointed Tuesday toward political operative P.L. Blake as a behind-the-scenes figure in Mississippi’s unfolding judicial bribery scandal. Blake – who has not been indicted in the case – has emerged in court documents as the man who bizarrely earned $50 million from the state’s tobacco settlement by clipping newspapers…
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January 16, 2008
DJ – Scruggs case: Farese asks again for counsel change
Scruggs case: Farese asks again for counsel change Ashland attorney Tony Farese again is asking the U.S. District Court to withdraw as Oxford lawyer Zach Scruggs’ counsel. Scruggs is a co-defendant in a six-count federal indictment accusing him, his father Dickie Scruggs and others of trying to bribe a judge. Farese also is chief counsel…
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January 16, 2008
OVERLAWYERED – More about Joseph (“Joey”) Langston, part I
More about Joseph (“Joey”) Langston, part I Many commenters (as at David Rossmiller’s) have noted that Langston appears to have drawn an unusually favorable plea deal from federal investigators, who are granting him remarkably broad impunity as to uncharged offenses, and not even stipulating that he give up all ill-gotten funds. Presumably this signals that…
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January 16, 2008
WSJLAWBLOG – The Mess in Mississippi: Pregaming the Feds’ Strategy
The Mess in Mississippi: Pregaming the Feds’ Strategy Dickie’s son, Zach, who’s also indicted in the Lackey situation, has brought in a new lawyer: Todd Graves, who applied for pro hac vice status in the case yesterday. Todd Graves? Name sound familiar? Graves was one of the handful of U.S. attorneys reportedly forced out by…
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Frank Corder
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September 19, 2025
Congressional midterms taking shape in Mississippi
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Jeremy Pittari
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September 19, 2025
AGB Search chosen to assist IHL in nationwide search for new JSU president
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Frank Corder
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September 19, 2025
Mississippi’s Thompson votes against U.S. House resolution honoring Charlie Kirk
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September 17, 2025
Ridgeland-based HORNE to join BDO USA
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Lynne Jeter
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September 16, 2025
Port Pascagoula drives $18.3 billion in economic impact for Mississippi
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Josh Boak, Associated Press
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September 15, 2025
A framework deal on TikTok has been reached between the US and China
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Meredith Biesinger
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September 19, 2025
Discover treasures at Relics in Tupelo
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Alistair Begg
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September 19, 2025
Theology for life
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Susan Marquez
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September 18, 2025
Robert St. John roasted by Mississippi Press Foundation
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Russ Latino
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September 18, 2025
Kimmel’s “the FCC won’t let me be” moment
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Russ Latino
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September 18, 2025
Sticks and stones: Navigating ‘free speech’ after Charlie Kirk’s murder
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Sid Salter
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September 17, 2025
Nash’s book chronicles a new take on the realities of ‘Reconstruction in Mississippi’
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