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June 1, 2007
MSDEMS – McCain tries to salvage lagging campaign
McCain tries to salvage lagging campaign JACKSON (Thursday, May 31, 2007) ? Republican Presidential candidate John McCain is in Mississippi today raising money in hopes of salvaging his lagging campaign. A new poll out this week shows McCain nationally at just 15 percent and trailing both Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney in the Republican primary…
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June 1, 2007
Mayor vetoes pay-cut action
The Clarion-Ledger, 5/31/7 Jackson Mayor Frank Melton vetoed the City Council’s decision made last week to withhold pay from former interim Fire Chief Todd Chandler and former interim Parks and Recreation Director Charles Melvin. “I have been advised that never in the history of the city of Jackson has a mayor’s request that a department…
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June 1, 2007
$600K sought to lure Saints
The Clarion-Ledger, 5/31/7 Millsaps supporters say they are seeking $600,000 from corporate sponsors to make upgrades to entice the New Orleans Saints to return for training camp on the private college’s campus. “There is a good possibility they are coming,” said Jackson businessman Con Maloney, a Millsaps trustee who is helping raise the money. “We…
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June 1, 2007
Legislative Primaries — Round One
The Clarion-Ledger Red/Blue Blog, 5/31/7 Representative Jamie Franks has chosen to run for Lieutenant Governor rather than for re-election, and four Democrats qualified to run for his seat. Representatives Bill Miles and J.B. Markham are retiring from legislative service, and a total of seven Democrats qualified to run for those two seats. Franks and Miles…
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June 1, 2007
Agriculture: Commissioner’s post unnecessary
The Clarion-Ledger, 5/31/7 The elected statewide position in Mississippi that arguably is the most useless – and expensive to taxpayers – is agriculture commissioner. Back in the days when Mississippi was primarily composed of small farms, and farm families, having a commissioner of agriculture and commerce might have made sense. Most Mississippians today probably couldn’t…
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May 31, 2007
Jim Hood is bad for business
The Madison County Journal Editorial, 5/31/7 The inconvenient fact for Attorney General Jim Hood and his allegations of gasoline price gouging in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is that the Federal Trade Commission last year found “no instances of illegal market manipulation that led to higher prices,” The Wall Street Journal reported May 25 –…
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May 30, 2007
300 summonses sent to potential jurors in Seale trial
The Clarion-Ledger, 5/30/7 With jury selection scheduled to begin today, U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate still has before him the government’s request to sequester jurors in the trial of reputed Klansman James Ford Seale and not release their names. Roughly 300 summonses were sent out to prospective jurors in Seale’s trial in Jackson in connection…
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May 30, 2007
GE picks Batesville for jet-engine parts plant
The Clarion-Ledger, 5/29/7 Gov. Haley Barbour and Scott C. Donnelly, president and CEO of General Electric Aviation, have scheduled an official announcement this afternoon in the northwest Mississippi city about an hour south of Memphis. Original plans called for the plant to be built by late 2007 or early 2008, but it was not known…
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May 30, 2007
Hood to take Wilburn to court
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 5/29/7 Attorney General Jim Hood said Thursday he is preparing to take Jerry Wilburn Oil of Tupelo to court to collect money allegedly gouged from consumers after Hurricane Katrina. During news conferences Thursday in Jackson and Tupelo, the attorney general announced that five Mississippi oil companies have agreed to settle…
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May 30, 2007
Eaves urges students to aim high for better state
The Daily Leader, 5/29/7 “Mississippi needs for you to feel the desires of your heart,” he said. “The era of low expectations is over. Your generation is an essential part of that.” Eaves toed the line between speaking and campaigning, stepping over it in several places when he brought up what he considered to be…
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May 30, 2007
Challenger in DA’s race offering stiff competition to incumbent
The Rankin Ledger, 5/29/7 Michael Guest is mounting a stiff challenge to his former boss, Madison/Rankin District Attorney David Clark, in his bid for the district attorney’s office. For his part, Clark remains defiant, confident. The incumbent said his record in two non-consecutive terms as district attorney will speak for itself.
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May 30, 2007
Melton: Back to business, here’s a ‘to do’ list
The Clarion-Ledger, 5/30/7 A Meridian jury on Friday refused to award damages from Melton to two men who sued over a memo Melton leaked to the media in 2003 when he was head of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics about alleged misuse of government property and funds. The court had already decided against Melton involving…
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October 13, 2025
FBI seeks tips as investigation into Leland mass shooting continues
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Frank Corder
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October 13, 2025
Coast restoration projects under review ahead of 2026 legislative session
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Daniel Tyson
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October 13, 2025
Senate study committee looks at insurance market, health care delivery in Mississippi
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October 7, 2025
Averitt Express announces $9.6 million expansion in Richland
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October 2, 2025
Smurfit Westrock expanding in Saltillo
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Lynne Jeter
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September 25, 2025
Jabil establishing $70 million facility in Marshall County
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Robert St. John
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October 13, 2025
In the blood
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Matt Friedeman
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October 13, 2025
Cheap and Christian
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Alistair Begg
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October 13, 2025
Weeping, pleading and speaking
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Russ Latino
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October 13, 2025
Lawmakers’ School Choice Dilemma: Side with Donald Trump and Mississippi parents or side with the Southern Poverty Law Center
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George Malvaney
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October 13, 2025
I threw away my freedom to extremism. Political violence will cost you the same
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Russ Latino
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October 13, 2025
Here’s to Columbus: European settlement of the Americas was a good thing on net
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