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June 20, 2008
Physicians group decries Medicaid funding stalemate
The Clarion-Ledger, 6/20/8 A special session to address Medicaid funding likely will resume next week with an impasse between Gov. Haley Barbour and House leaders, despite a meeting Thursday intended to reach a compromise. Discussions between House and Senate leaders are expected to continue. A group representing physicians statewide blasted the standoff that has resulted…
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June 20, 2008
YP – More bad news in the Scruggs legal maneuvering empire
Dickie et. al. sufferred two more setbacks that I don’t have time to opine on, but I will just put out there. Yesterday, Judge Senter ruled against the Trailer Lawyers (AGAIN!). Today, in the McIntosh case, Judge Senter upheld a Magistrate Court ruling that Dickie and Zach would be compelled for discovery. Basically, now that…
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June 20, 2008
Melton and Council Still at Odds over Summer Jobs
WLBT, 6/19/8 Jackson Mayor Frank Melton says his summer jobs program is back on track, though the city council would disagree. The City of Ridgeland has paid Jackson $1.2 million in arrears for service from the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, and the mayor wants to use some of that cash to employ 300 teenagers.…
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June 20, 2008
Council rejects Melton’s jobs plan
The Clarion-Ledger, 6/18/8 In an emotionally charged atmosphere Tuesday night, Mayor Frank Melton accused City Council members of callous indifference to the plight of young people, and council members bickered over the financial strength of the city. But after more than an hour of debate and political grandstanding, the mayor’s plan to spend up to…
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June 20, 2008
Legislative pay: Should not be politically hot
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 6/20/8 The required annual report on legislative pay is out, which usually brings on criticism of how much public officials are paid. For the record, state taxpayers were paid about $19 million to operate the Legislature last year, which includes pay and travel for the 174 members of the Legislature, legislative staff,…
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June 20, 2008
Medicaid: Tensions rising, solutions still elusive
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 6/20/8 After closed-door meetings Thursday between Gov. Haley Barbour, Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant, House Speaker Billy McCoy and Senate and House leaders in the trenches of the ongoing battle to fund a $90 million Medicaid deficit, leaders emerged using words like “progress” and “optimism.” But it is obvious that as the June…
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June 20, 2008
To drill or not to drill?
The Hattiesburg American, 6/20/8 Some say it is exactly the clarion call that the country needs to heed in the age of $4-a-gallon gasoline. Others place it in the category of brazen politics, a lead straw thrown to a nation drowning in the higher energy costs. President George W. Bush’s request of Congress this week…
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June 20, 2008
Legislative tab tops $19M for year’s time
The Clarion-Ledger, 6/19/8 Mississippi taxpayers are footing the bill for more than $19 million in legislative expenses, including salaries and travel expenses, over a one-year period that ended in April, according to the state auditor’s annual report. Last year, it cost more than $18 million in total expenses for state lawmakers, legislative pages, assistants and…
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June 20, 2008
House bill breaks logjam on rebuilding public housing
The Sun Herald, 6/19/8 Just two weeks after a critical joint House committee hearing, the House on Wednesday approved a bill to break a federal impasse on rebuilding public housing after a disaster. The bill, which was done on a bipartisan basis and passed on a voice vote, removes a conflict between FEMA and the…
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June 20, 2008
Amicable Medicaid pact eludes lawmakers
The Clarion-Ledger, 6/19/8 A long-term funding solution for Medicaid remained unresolved today after a meeting between Gov. Haley Barbour and legislative leaders failed to produce results. A long-term funding solution for Medicaid remained unresolved today after a meeting between Gov. Haley Barbour and legislative leaders failed to produce results. Their meeting convened a week before…
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June 20, 2008
U.S. lawmakers try to stop Katrina funds from going to port
U.S. lawmakers try to stop Katrina funds from going to port Rep. Bennie Thompson and other lawmakers have asked a key House committee to block Gov. Haley Barbour’s move to redirect $600 million in hurricane housing money toward enlarging the Port of Gulfport. “This transfer is unreasonable in light of the fact that the state…
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June 20, 2008
Sanctuary Hospice case gets even more weird
North Miss. doctor charged with cyber stalking Dr. Paul White, the medical director of Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo, was arrested Thursday on two counts of cyber stalking, according Attorney General Jim Hood’s office. White, 51, had been charged in a 33-count indictment in April that accused him of neglecting patients and aiding and abetting…
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Daniel Tyson
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May 12, 2025
Ag Commissioner talks tariffs, trade impact on Mississippi farmers
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Stan Choe, Associated Press
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May 12, 2025
Dow jumps 1,079 points and S&P 500 climbs 3.1% following a 90-day truce in the US-China trade war
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May 12, 2025
Trump says he’ll set 30-day deadline for drugmakers to lower the cost of prescription drugs
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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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Parrish Alford
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May 12, 2025
Ostrander needs deep pitching staffs to take Golden Eagles to new heights
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Robert St. John
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May 12, 2025
Onward toward a creative life and not an unlived life
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C.H. Spurgeon
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May 12, 2025
Chosen for affliction
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Kelley Williams
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May 12, 2025
Bad energy policy represents risk to ratepayers
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Bill Crawford
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May 11, 2025
State still hugs bottom as education advances
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Roger Wicker
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May 9, 2025
Trump-Zelensky agreement could be pivotal moment toward ending Putin’s war
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