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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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January 16, 2008
JJ – Patterson gave $2500 to Judge DeLaughter’s Re-election Campaign
Patterson gave $2500 to Judge DeLaughter’s Re-election Campaign The Mississippi Secretary of State’s website reveals that the following prominent lawyers donated money to Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Bobby Delaughter in his 2006 re-election campaign: Langston & Langston: $400 Steven Patterson: $2,500 Jackson Jambalaya 1/15/8
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January 16, 2008
DJ – Guilty pleas add fuel to Scruggs’ troubles
Guilty pleas add fuel to Scruggs’ troubles Langston’s attorney, Tony Farese of Ashland, described his longtime friend’s fall as “a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.” “This is a loss to the Bar and to society as well,” he told the Daily Journal late Monday. “He accepts full responsibility for his conduct and is assisting the government…
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January 16, 2008
OE – Two Down . . . Three to Go
Two down, three to go. Steven A. Patterson pleaded guilty this morning at the U.S. District Court in Oxford for his role in an attempt to bribe a judge in a case against prominent trial attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs. Patterson pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to bribe an elected official, which carries a…
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Frank Corder
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April 8, 2026
Governor approves second disaster loan program for cities, counties effected by winter storm
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Jeremy Pittari
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April 8, 2026
Student cell phone use bans fail to find support in Mississippi House, Senate
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Daniel Tyson
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April 8, 2026
Dept. of Public Safety set to consolidate divisions, providing more strategic collaboration and cost savings
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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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Frank Corder
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March 26, 2026
DG Foods announces $1.19 million expansion
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Frank Corder
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March 25, 2026
AeroShield Alliance locating headquarters in Mississippi
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Will Graves, Associated Press
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April 8, 2026
Pirates sign teenage shortstop Konnor Griffin to a 9-year deal worth at least $140 million
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Richelle Putnam
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April 8, 2026
Where the Light Falls: The landscape of Marshall Bouldin
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Alistair Begg
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April 8, 2026
More than a name
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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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Russ Latino
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April 3, 2026
Lawmakers owe Reeves a ‘thank you’ for stopping Medicaid expansion
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