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March 2, 2009
Legislature opposes traffic light cameras
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 3/2/9 The Legislature’s collective populism is manifesting itself through its opposition to cameras that would monitor traffic-light violations. Earlier this session, the state House, led in large part by Reps. Mark DuVall, D-Mantachie, and Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, passed legislation that would, at the least, ban any additional governments from placing…
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March 2, 2009
Miss. would get billions if spending bill OK’d
The Clarion-Ledger, 3/2/9 Mississippi would receive hundreds of millions of dollars from a massive spending bill the House approved last week. The $410 billion omnibus spending bill would pay for government operations through September. It became necessary after Congress failed to finish work last year on most spending bills that fund federal agencies. The Senate…
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March 2, 2009
Medicaid’s next miracle? Stimulus could provide state up to $790 million provide $520-$72 million
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 3/1/9 While Republican Gov. Haley Barbour and Democratic House Speaker Billy McCoy have sparred philosophically over accepting portions of the $787 billion federal stimulus package for unemployment benefits, there is no disagreement among state Democrats and Republicans over accepting stimulus funds to bail out the state’s struggling Medicaid program. “We’ve been so…
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March 2, 2009
Stanford official is free on bond
The Clarion-Ledger, 2/28/9 An executive of Stanford Financial Group is free on $300,000 bond after a court hearing Friday where she was painted variously as the scapegoat for what regulators call a massive Ponzi scheme and as one of the few who knows where millions of investors’ dollars are hidden. Baldwyn, Miss., resident Laura Pendergest-Holt,…
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March 2, 2009
Stanford fiasco likely far from over
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 3/1/9 Fallout continues in the Stanford Financial probe, and it seems more will come before everything is settled. What started as a civil complaint in which authorities alleged fraud has mushroomed into an international scandal affecting numerous countries and investors. Company chairman R. Allen Stanford and Baldwyn resident James Davis, chief financial…
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March 2, 2009
Taylor to introduce multi-peril bill again
The Sun Herald, 2/28/9 U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Bay St. Louis, plans this week to once again introduce a bill that would add wind insurance to the National Flood Insurance Program. Last year the bill passed the House but stalled in the Senate Banking Committee. Taylor’s office is working to build consensus for the bill…
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March 2, 2009
Mike “Tom Hagen” Moore is back in the saddle again slinging quotes for Zach
Here come some new doozies. by Alan Lange 3/2/9
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March 2, 2009
Florida State basketball is fashionable once again on the national scene
Florida State basketball is fashionable once again on the national scene Ron King, one of the most celebrated players in Florida State history, wore one of the most garishly gold pinstriped suits you’ve ever seen and accentuated it with an equally audacious garnet fedora. It was a Saturday for Garnet and Bold. And we’re not…
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March 1, 2009
David Hampton attacks Gov. Barbour on his not wanting to increase unemployment benefits
Barbour just dead wrong to refuse aid Barbour and a group of Southern Republican governors made a show of saying no to the unemployment money, an obvious political slap as President Barack Obama was attempting to lay out the administration’s budget and economic plans. More level-headed Republican governors – or maybe less politically driven –…
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March 1, 2009
Mayoral candidates tout change at Jackson forum
Mayoral candidates tout change at Jackson forum Candidates introduced themselves and their platforms then responded to questions that focused on Jackson roads, crime and economic development. The panel included a state senator, a city councilman, a county tax collector, a former mayor and a former police chief. All candidates said they think Jackson has been…
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March 1, 2009
Frank Melton to focus on city, election
Melton to focus on city, election With round one of Mayor Frank Melton’s federal trial behind him, he likely will turn to his growing to-do list: Managing the city. Running for re-election. Tending to his ailing health. And preparing for the possibility of a new trial. Melton proclaimed last week that he was able to…
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March 1, 2009
Zach Scruggs back behind bars
Younger Scruggs back behind bars Former lawyer Zach Scruggs is back behind bars for allegedly violating conditions of his release from federal prison to a halfway house in Tupelo last week. Scruggs, 34, served six months of a 14-month federal sentence in a judicial bribery scandal that also included his father, Mississippi tort king Dickie…
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Frank Corder
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December 12, 2025
Navy Secretary tells shipbuilders to “act like we’re at war.” What it means for Mississippi’s Ingalls shipyard is unclear
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Frank Corder
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December 12, 2025
Damage Control: Thompson says he misspoke when referring to attack on National Guardsmen as an “unfortunate accident”
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Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press
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December 12, 2025
Trump signs executive order to block state AI regulations
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Frank Corder
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December 11, 2025
$100 million metallurgical biocarbon manufacturer locating in Pike County
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Frank Corder
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December 2, 2025
BWC Terminals break ground in Pascagoula
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Frank Corder
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November 21, 2025
Ingalls completes sea trials for USS Ted Stevens
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Meredith Biesinger
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December 12, 2025
Holly Jolly Oxford: A little slice of Stars Hollow in the Magnolia State
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Alistair Begg
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December 12, 2025
The purpose of the cross
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Richelle Putnam
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December 11, 2025
A holiday celebration fit for a King
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Russ Latino
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December 10, 2025
University of Mississippi Chancellor responds to Lauren Stokes’ First Amendment lawsuit, seeks dismissal
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Sid Salter
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December 10, 2025
Guardrails or gravel? Why America and Mississippi must get AI regulation right in 2026
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Merle Flowers
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December 8, 2025
The Parents Over Platforms Act: A targeted, privacy-respecting alternative to ASAA
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