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April 5, 2011
JATRAN losing $5M per year embarks on building new headquarters costing $6.8M
New headquarters for JATRAN likely a done deal Ward 7 Councilwoman Margaret Barrett-Simon said she wished the council could have known then what it knows today about JATRAN’s inverted revenue stream. The system operates at a deficit approaching $5 million annually and growing. “I wonder, knowing what we know now about the finances of our…
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April 5, 2011
Funding set for state, civil rights museums
Funding set for state, civil rights museums On the 43rd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the Mississippi House and Senate approved a measure to borrow $38 million to build civil rights and state history museums in downtown Jackson. “I think it’s ironic, and it’s a testament of how far we’ve come that…
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April 4, 2011
ZNN’s latest press release on Zach Scruggs’s effort to undo felony guilty plea
Former AG back on Scruggs legal team A book about the Scruggs case and new affidavits about related issues show that prosecutors falsely told Biggers that Zach Scruggs knew about another judicial bribery case and that Langston, who had pleaded guilty to that case, was prepared to testify to those alleged facts. NEMS360 4/3/11
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April 4, 2011
Dickie Scruggs settles malicious prosecution action brought by Charlie Merkel for $3M
On Friday, word began circulating about a new development in the Scruggs universe. The core of the case stems back to the late 1980s. Merkel represented an asbestos plaintiff named Scott. Merkel approached Bobs Wilson to provide assistance with that case. It settled for $300K and Wilson was due half of the fees. When Wilson…
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April 4, 2011
Wall Street Journal – Campaign to fund the arts catches ear of Cochran
Wall Street Journal – Campaign to fund the arts catches ear of Cochran ndependent agencies such as the National Endowment for the Arts are not allowed to lobby Congress. But their supporters have been busy. The Americans for the Arts group has organized letter-writing campaigns, rallies and meetings with elected officials to try to persuade…
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April 4, 2011
Hattiesburg American – Arts funding important to health, well-being
Arts funding important to health, well-being The Mississippi Arts Commission may not be considered by some to be a part of the core function of government, but the arts are at the heart of the core function of being human. A well-rounded student becomes a contributing citizen, and every parent wants their child to thrive…
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March 31, 2011
Will Judge Carlton Reeves now have to recuse himself from redistricting?
Today, Judge Dan Jordan recused himself (hattip Jackson Jambalaya) citing him having a family member that was running in a district that will be affected by redistricting. It looks like that now Carlton Reeves has been handed the case. Of course, Rep. Cottonmouth (D) is all atwitter about the judicial appointments by Judge Edith Jones…
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March 30, 2011
Bennie Thompson featured in Roll Call piece on unpaid DC parking tickets
Members Collect Many Unpaid Tickets While many vehicles registered a single ticket, valued at as little as $20, a handful of automobiles reported several hundred to thousands of dollars in unpaid tickets. Roll Call’s inquiry appears to have led some offenders to pay up. Aides to Reps. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) and Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said…
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March 28, 2011
The BIG change at YallPolitics
Let's see how this Facebook thing works by Alan Lange
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March 26, 2011
CL EDITORIAL – Budget: Barbour’s priorities are off
Budget: Barbour’s priorities are off Mississippi has a tight budget situation, but there is no compelling reason – and it is certainly not good policy – to seek to further underfund such critical items as education and mental health. Even under the best proposals, many school districts could have to raise taxes locally (as 70…
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March 25, 2011
L.A. Times – Mississippi juke joint’s caught the blues
L.A. Times – Mississippi juke joint’s caught the blues Reporting from Clarksdale, Miss.— Red Paden was pouring Bulleit bourbon into little plastic cups, one for him, one for his buddy Antonio Coburn. It was just the two of them inside Red’s Blues Club, arguably the last of the real Mississippi Delta juke joints, set downtown…
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March 25, 2011
Barksdale to keynote Delta Council Meeting
Barksdale to keynote Delta Council Meeting The 76th annual Delta Council Meeting will be Friday, May 6, and will include a featured address by businessman and philanthropist Jim Barksdale. The annual meeting of the Delta’s regional business and agriculture organization will be at Delta State University’s Bologna Performing Arts Center, in Cleveland, Miss. “I am…
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Jeremy Pittari
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May 26, 2026
MDOT to evaluate roads repeatedly damaged by flooding, other natural disasters
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Frank Corder
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May 26, 2026
EXCLUSIVE: Gipson talks gubernatorial run in interview with Magnolia Tribune
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Marisa Atkinson
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May 26, 2026
Researchers develop method to detect diseases before symptoms appear
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Daniel Tyson
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May 20, 2026
International Paper breaks ground on new $225 million facility in central Mississippi
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Frank Corder
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May 14, 2026
Azuria Water Solutions breaks ground on new manufacturing facility in Batesville
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Frank Corder
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May 12, 2026
M&M Bank’s Legear named chair of Atlanta Fed’s Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council
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Frank Corder
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May 26, 2026
Southern Miss, Miss. State hosting NCAA baseball regionals; Ole Miss heads to Lincoln
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Meredith Biesinger
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May 26, 2026
Sweet summer days at Cherry Creek Orchards
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Alistair Begg
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May 26, 2026
Soul rest
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Roger Wicker
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May 26, 2026
Deterrence is cheaper than war
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Ashby Foote
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May 25, 2026
The fog of peacemaking
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Russ Latino
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May 24, 2026
Memorial Day: A tale of two Mississippi soldiers
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