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June 27, 2008
ICLAWBLOG – Scruggs Nation: June 26, the pre-sentencing
Scruggs Nation: June 26, the pre-sentencing I’ve been reading some of the excerpts from the treasure trove of letters asking the Court for leniency in the Scruggs sentencing tomorrow. And after reading them, I’ve had a change of heart. You know what I say? He’s suffered enough, just let him go! I mean, lighten up…
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June 27, 2008
NRSC – ‘Quite a record for Ronnie Musgrove’
NRSC 6/28/8
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June 27, 2008
McCain backs gun decision, Obama straddles issue
McCain backs gun decision, Obama straddles issue John McCain welcomed a Supreme Court decision invalidating a District of Columbia handgun ban. Barack Obama sought to straddle the subject by saying he favors an individual’s right to bear firearms as well as a government’s right to regulate them. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting, heralded the justices’…
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June 27, 2008
Gallo Notes: Gene Taylor says NO!
Gallo Notes: Who Does the MHA Represent? Medicaid and the Un-Special Session: I’m watching the Senate debate whether it is germane or not to the Point of Order in adding the tobacco tax to it to Gov. Barbour’s call. Speaker after speaker is stating that their local hospital directors are saying they will go broke…
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June 27, 2008
Senator Roger Wicker (R) supports bill to encourage oil exploration and new technology
U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today helped introduce the Gas Price Reduction Act of 2008, legislation designed to address the high price of gas at the pump. The legislation, which has 42 cosponsors, is part of an effort by Senate Republicans to reach out to their Democratic colleagues in order to find common ground on…
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June 27, 2008
OE – Hundreds ask for leniency for Scruggses, Backstrom
Former “60 Minutes” producer Lowell Bergman and tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand are among those who wrote to Biggers on Scruggs’ behalf. All three were portrayed in the movie “The Insider,” starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe. “You have before you a rare man, who has made comforting the afflicted a calling,” Bergman said. “I…
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June 26, 2008
Prosecutors subpoena Grady Tollison for sentencing
Prosecutors subpoena Scruggs adversary for sentencing The attorney opposing Dickie Scruggs in the lawsuit that led to his downfall has been subpoenaed to testify for prosecutors Friday morning at Scruggs’ sentencing hearing. “I’ve been subpoenaed, that’s a fact,” said Grady Tollison, who was working in shirtsleeves and suspenders this morning in his second-floor perch on…
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June 26, 2008
YP – A Catch 22 Situation for Dickie Scruggs & Rigsby Gals in Judge Acker’s Court
OK YallPolitics Nation. Time to put on your thinking caps and follow the bouncing ball . . . In what can only be described as a bizarre series of filings in the last 48 hours in the Renfroe vs. Rigsby Gals case in Judge Acker’s Court, Scruggs now announces to the Court that he now…
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June 26, 2008
Perry on Ronnie Musgrove – Questionable judgment
Questionable judgment Over the years, Musgrove received more than $150,000 in campaign contributions from Minor and $92,000 in contributions from Scruggs, who also secured Musgrove a $75,000 loan during his run for lieutenant governor. The NRSC dubs Scruggs and Minor: Musgrove’s “dependable duo.” The NRSC notes Musgrove’s official 2000 Inaugural program recognizes both Minor and…
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June 26, 2008
Medicaid: Get with funding program or go home
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 6/26/8 Two years of partisan bickering is more than enough regarding Medicaid funding. Mississippi taxpayers have underwritten the costs of a 2008 special session to contain a political drama that’s been playing for two years. That absolutely is enough. When lawmakers return today to resume the special session battle over how to…
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June 26, 2008
HUD OKs Coast housing plan
The Clarion-Ledger, 6/26/8 The federal government has approved Mississippi’s $350 million plan to produce thousands of housing units on the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast. U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston approved the proposal Wednesday. The money comes from the $5.4 billion in Katrina aid authorized by Congress after the August 2005 storm. HUD said…
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June 26, 2008
Scruggs, government differ on views for sentence
The Mississippi Daily Journal, 6/26/8 Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and the U.S. Probation Office have differences of opinion about how much prison time the Oxford attorney should get for conspiring to bribe a judge. In legal papers filed Wednesday, Scruggs’ attorneys take 15 pages to outline his life and 17 more to explain why he should…
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Frank Corder
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May 2, 2025
Maxwell appointed USDA State Director by President Trump
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Frank Corder
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May 2, 2025
Senator Wicker on Trump’s budget request: President’s advisors “were apparently not listening”
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Frank Corder
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May 2, 2025
Ole Miss pulls support of Oxford Pride Parade citing new DEI law
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Frank Corder
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April 23, 2025
Amazon locating inbound cross dock operations in Marshall County, creating 1,000 jobs
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Lynne Jeter
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April 17, 2025
GE Aerospace moving at warp speed in Batesville
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Lynne Jeter
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April 15, 2025
ABB doubling size of operations in Tate County
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C.H. Spurgeon
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May 2, 2025
He promises you
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Susan Marquez
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May 1, 2025
What’s Happening, Mississippi? Things to do in the Magnolia State in May 2025
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C.H. Spurgeon
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May 1, 2025
The mighty one
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Sid Salter
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April 30, 2025
Is a new era in federal natural disaster relief something Mississippi can easily navigate?
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Bill Crawford
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April 27, 2025
Model Utah program considered by legislature unfairly denigrated
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Courtney Taylor
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April 25, 2025
Inside Mississippi’s workforce reset: Reduce waste, cut overhead, create results
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