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September 25, 2007
MDA mum on how $600M diverted from storm relief would be used
The Clarion-Ledger, 9/25/7 Lawmakers quizzed a state agency in charge of billions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina relief Monday, urging it to extend the time for residents to comment on a plan that would divert some of the money to a port expansion project. But officials with the Mississippi Development Authority, the agency pushing the…
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September 25, 2007
Hood Launches False and Negative Attack on Al Hopkins’ Military Experience
Hood Launches False and Negative Attack on Al Hopkins’ Military Experience This morning Attorney General Jim Hood launched a false and negative attack on retired Major General Al Hopkins’ military experience in an effort to hide the way he appears to have sold state contingency fee contracts to his campaign contributors. In a press forum…
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September 25, 2007
New Haley Barbour Ad on Jobs
Narrator: Over 40,000 more people are at work today under Governor Haley Barbour. Graphic: Over 40,000 more people working. That’s only the beginning. Background Narrator: Greenwood… 55 new jobs. Forest … 110 new jobs. FACT: Reference: U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.ms.htm): All figures are seasonally adjusted non-farm employment levels. These…
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September 25, 2007
Langston files suit to keep $14M in MCI money
Langston files legal action Booneville attorney Joey Langston is asking a bankruptcy judge in New York state to rule on whether he and a group of lawyers must return the $14 million in fees they were awarded for winning $104 million in cash and $15 million in property for the state. It has recently been…
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Magnolia Tribune
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September 25, 2007
Hopkins accuses Hood of Pay For Play
HOOD LAUNCHES FALSE AND NEGATIVE ATTACK ON AL HOPKINS’ MILITARY EXPERIENCE _Hood’s Ludicrous Attack is Smokescreen to Hide the Fact He’s Given State Contracts to Law Firms Who’ve Given Him Over $400,000 in Campaign Contributions_ JACKSON, MS – This morning Attorney General Jim Hood launched a false and negative attack on retired Major General Al…
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Magnolia Tribune
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September 24, 2007
Gallo’s GRIT squad on McCoy Nosecounting Summit
Reports from Gallo GRIT Squad (Gallo Research Investigative Team) is that the Speaker is not happy with the revelation of his meeting’s time and place. Rumors swirling around are that the Saturday meeting is vital to McCoy’s ultimate decision to fight all the way to November. Some reports have stated that McCoy is being urged…
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Magnolia Tribune
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September 24, 2007
Health care: A gubernatorial issue?
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 9/23/7 IS PUBLIC HEALTH CARE — particularly the public health care provided children – a legitimate gubernatorial campaign issue in Mississippi? Eaves provided details of his plan, Kid Care, to The Clarion-Ledger last week. Modeled after an Illinois program, the Eaves plan seeks to offer affordable coverage for children whose families earn…
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September 24, 2007
Clarify blind trusts
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 9/23/7 In his financial disclosure, Barbour reports only that his income besides his gubernatorial salary comes from a blind trust- without any further specificity. The basic idea of a blind trust is that the public official doesn’t know what’s in it, and that by having his assets managed by an…
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September 24, 2007
Bryant-Langston tiff likely to land in court
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 9/24/7 State Auditor Phil Bryant won’t say what the next step will be in his efforts to get Booneville attorney Joey Langston and other lawyers to relinquish fees they received in securing a $110 million settlement against MCI/WorldCom, but the issue is expected to end up in court. Syndicated…
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September 24, 2007
Judge reflects on ordeal
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 9/23/7 Seeing former state Court of Appeals Judge Leslie Southwick getting close to a Senate confirmation vote for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, retired federal judge Charles W. Pickering must feel like Moses on the mountainside overlooking the land of Canaan. Only a successful Senate filibuster is likely to derail…
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Magnolia Tribune
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September 24, 2007
Debate: Barbour, Eaves still face questions
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 9/24/7 Eaves has been hitting the public school prayer issue on TV ads blanketing the state, but without addressing the issue of how in the world he can do anything about it. The U.S. Supreme Court has banned state-supported prayer as a constitutional issue, as Barbour pointed out. Eaves’ prayer pledge is…
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September 24, 2007
Legislators to query grant diversion plan
The Clarion-Ledger, 9/24/7 A state agency faces questions today from lawmakers concerned about its plan to redirect millions of dollars from a Hurricane Katrina housing program to a project that would expand the port of Gulfport. If ap-proved by federal officials, Mississippi Development Authority would divert $600 million from a $3.3 billion grant program that…
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July 22, 2025
House ending session early as Republicans clash over Epstein vote
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Jeremy Pittari
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July 22, 2025
Jackson-based charter school receives approval to expand into high school
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Cathy Bussewitz, Associated Press
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July 22, 2025
Trump’s Labor Department proposes more than 60 rule changes in a push to deregulate workplaces
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Lynne Jeter
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July 17, 2025
Southern Miss, Integer Technologies land $25 million defense contract
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Frank Corder
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July 9, 2025
Nissan delays EV production at Canton plant until 2028
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Lynne Jeter
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July 8, 2025
Mississippi tech companies featured at premier national defense innovation event
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Meredith Biesinger
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July 22, 2025
The Mississippi Art Colony: Mississippi’s best-kept creative secret
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C.H. Spurgeon
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July 22, 2025
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Parrish Alford
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Russ Latino
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