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December 11, 2008
Advocates want $1 cigarette tax passed next session
WLBT, 12/10/8 It’s been years in the making but advocates believe 2009 will be the year state lawmakers pass a cigarette tax. That’s the good news. The bad news, there will still be plenty to debate on the issue hits the floor at the legislature. “The issue is how much and what will happen to…
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December 11, 2008
Bounds: Education proposal requires $3M or more
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/11/8 State Superintendent of Education Hank Bounds said Wednesday the state would need at least $3 million to fund proposed controversial legislation that would remove school boards from repeatedly failing school districts. Bounds said the Children First Act of 2009 – a bill recommended by a legislative task force on underperforming schools –…
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December 11, 2008
MDOT gets list of major road projects compiled
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/11/8 Mississippi has 75 highway projects just waiting for President-elect Barack Obama’s stimulus package to pass Congress next year. The state’s wish list totals $600 million, according to a recent American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials survey. Obama has made spending on public works projects a key element of his plan…
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December 11, 2008
Suit seeks to block port funds
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/11/8 Gulf Coast housing advocates filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the federal government’s decision to allow Mississippi to divert $600 million in Hurricane Katrina recovery funds to expand the Port of Gulfport. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., by the Mississippi State Conference NAACP, the Gulf Coast Fair Housing Center…
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December 11, 2008
Letters ask for Langston leniency
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/11/8 If 1st District U.S. Rep. Travis Childers were the judge, he would go to prison in place of former Booneville lawyer Joey Langston. “I know his heart, and it is good,” wrote Childers, whose letter is among 320 sent to U.S. District Judge Michael Mills, who will be sentencing Langston next week.…
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December 11, 2008
Is Auburn flirting with disaster in its coaching search?
Is Auburn flirting with disaster in its coaching search? Turner Gill, Rodney Garner, Patrick Nix, Todd Graham, Brady Hoke … Auburn Athletics Director Jay Jacobs had more people coming in and out of his room at the Waldorf-Astoria than a small-town Midwestern businessman attending his first Las Vegas convention. The question is, are these really…
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December 11, 2008
Who wrote letters about Joey Langston?
Who wrote letters about Joey Langston? Wilbur Colom, Columbus John F. Hawkins, Jackson Rob Lahrer, Tupelo James Johnston, Pontotoc Gregory Keenum, Booneville Linda Koon, Iuka Archie C. Lamb Jr., Birmingham Thomas D. Keenum Sr., Booneville John F. “Jay” Perry III, Starkville Philip M. Whitehead, Booneville Thomas L. Sweat Jr., Booneville Janelle M. Lowrey, Booneville kenneth…
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December 11, 2008
NMC – Paul Quinn in the Clarion Ledger on the Langston sentencing letters
Paul Quinn in the Clarion Ledger on the Langston sentencing letters “I recall so many times that I (as chancery clerk) have called on him to help pay hospital bills, buy medicine, pay school expenses, furnish Christmas gifts to needy children, even to assist in burial expenses for people in our county. Most of the…
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December 11, 2008
Thompson/Taylor vote for UAW Bailout . . . Pickering & Childers vote NO
Auto Bailout Vote Democratic 205 20 11 Republican 32 150 1 15 Independent TOTALS 237 170 1 26 Thomas 12/10/8
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December 11, 2008
GOP suit alleges poll problems
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/10/8 Mississippi Republicans filed suit Tuesday against the Leflore County Election Commission and a Greenwood poll manager, alleging inappropriate and illegal activities on Election Day. Brad White, chairman of the state Republican Party, said poll watchers were not allowed to observe the Nov. 4 election there. The lawsuit also alleges voters in Leflore…
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December 11, 2008
U.S. District Court gets nearly 340 pleas for leniency for Joey Langston
U.S. District Court gets nearly 340 pleas for leniency for Joey Langston Four reporters, who asked to do so, got a look Wednesday at the nearly 340 letters to Chief Judge Michael P. Mills at the U.S. District Courthouse in Oxford. Childers, a Langston friend and business partner for many years, wrote that he was…
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December 11, 2008
Underperforming schools law discussed
The Clarion-Ledger, 12/10/8 State education officials and lawmakers are continuing to talk about potentially controversial legislation affecting the state’s underperforming schools – particularly removing school board members and superintendents. The discussion is aimed at educating legislators about the proposed Children First Act of 2009 before they come back in session in January, said House Education…
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Frank Corder
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May 27, 2026
Owens, Lumumba, Banks have until Friday to change their plea in Jackson bribery case
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Eddie Pells, Associated Press
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May 27, 2026
Key Senators Cruz, Cantwell look to break college sports logjam in Congress with a bipartisan bill
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Frank Corder
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May 27, 2026
Mississippi looks to capitalize on new critical minerals industry
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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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Marilyn Tinnin
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May 27, 2026
Mississippi Legends: Leontyne Price
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Alistair Begg
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May 27, 2026
Forgiven and forgiving
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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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Brent Sadler
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May 27, 2026
The Navy needs a strategic industrial plan to realize the Golden Fleet
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Sid Salter
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May 27, 2026
For most Americans, gas prices are the top public policy concern rising from Iran conflict
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Roger Wicker
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May 26, 2026
Deterrence is cheaper than war
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