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June 2, 2008
Sportscaster eyed in fraud
Sportscaster eyed in fraud With a down-home, easy-going demeanor and connections across the South’s college sports scene, Booneville native and University of Mississippi alum Scott McKinney built a sports talk radio empire. His Southern Sports Tonight show was heard in the coveted afternoon drive time on some 115 stations from Texas to South Carolina. His…
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June 2, 2008
Time for MLB to retire Babe Ruth’s No. 3
Time for MLB to retire Babe Ruth’s No. 3 Sorry, Ken Griffey Jr., time for another new jersey. Same goes for you, Eric Chavez and Damion Easley and Kaz Matsui. Take a number, Jose Vidro and Jorge Cantu and Evan Longoria — something other than 3. If Linda Ruth Tosetti and thousands of petitioners have…
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June 1, 2008
Sid Salter – Voter ID: The thing that won’t go away
Voter ID: The thing that won’t go away For Democrats, it’s like an ant at a picnic, fly in the ointment or that word one can’t write in a newspaper in the punch bowl. Voter ID for Democrats is like Michael Corleone in The Godfather: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me…
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June 1, 2008
DJ – A tangled web of legal cases continues
A tangled web of legal cases continues When famed Oxford litigator Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, his son Zach and their legal associate Sidney Backstrom are sentenced on July 2, only part of a complicated legal drama will be resolved. At least four related cases are proceeding, although they and other co-defendants Timothy Balducci and Steven Patterson…
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June 1, 2008
Florida and Michigan Delegates Count Less Than Slaves in the 1700s
Florida and Michigan Delegates Count Less Than Slaves in the 1700s In a move that surprised no one today, the party known for being made up of attorneys followed their lawyers advice and will be seating all of their delegates, but they will each only receive half a vote. Half, by the way, is is…
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June 1, 2008
YP – Reminiscent of the 3/5ths Compromise, Dems return to their roots with a 1/2 solution for FL/MI
Reminiscent of the 3/5ths Compromise in 1787 that apportioned slaves as only being worth 3/5th of a white man, the national Democratic Party has returned to its roots. Except this time, instead of apportioning the influence of slaves, the Democrat plantation is putting delegates in Michigan and Florida in their place. The long awaited “Rules…
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May 31, 2008
Tuberville on target from Iraq
Tuberville on target from Iraq Every election has a defining moment. And it seems the never-ending battle (even longer and more drawn out than Clinton vs. Obama) between Thomas Tuberville and Nicholas Saban has finally had its Kodak moment as well. Tuberville raising seven fingers was the shot across the bow heard around the world.…
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May 31, 2008
Bobby Harrison – Hospital, cigarette taxes fail in House
Hospital, cigarette taxes fail in House The Mississippi House was unable to garner the three-fifths majority needed Friday to pass a Senate proposal to levy a tax on hospital patients. Neither was it able to pass legislation to increase the cigarette tax. Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant said taxing the hospitals “made very good sense” and…
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May 31, 2008
DJ – Backstrom, Scruggses face July sentencing
Backstrom, Scruggses face July sentencing A packed U.S. District Courthouse is likely July 2 when a judge decides the fate of famed litigator Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and two others brought down in a scheme to bribe a judge. They also are likely to hear from witnesses who want Senior Judge Neal Biggers to know why…
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May 31, 2008
Copper-theft bill awaits Barbour’s signature
Copper-theft bill awaits Barbour’s signature House lawmakers voted today to require them to tag and hold metal for three days instead of five. A requirement to gather fingerprints from metal sellers was stripped from the bill. House Judiciary B Committee Chairman Willie Bailey, D-Greenville, said the changes do not “water down” the bill. “It’s going…
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May 31, 2008
Haley Barbour on House deliberations on Medicaid
“For the past two days, the House leadership has wasted taxpayer money by holding unconstitutional votes on raising cigarette taxes to fund Medicaid. Each time, the measure has failed. Now, instead of taking up the fair and reasonable solution to fully fund Medicaid passed by the Senate by a vote of 41 to 7 with…
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May 31, 2008
Susan Sarandon’s Histrionics
Susan Sarandon’s Histrionics Seems Susan Sarandon has threatened to move to Canada or Italy if John McCain is elected president. To which I say, “Why wait so long?” Many of us could not believe it when Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992. But it never occurred to us to leave the country when he…
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Jeremy Pittari
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April 29, 2025
Mississippi recognized as one of five states to reach all pre-K benchmarks, according to NIEER
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Stan Choe, Associated Press
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April 29, 2025
Wall Street rises as corporate profits pile higher along with uncertainty about Trump’s trade war
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Daniel Tyson
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April 29, 2025
Taylor sworn in as new Senator for District 18
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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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Meredith Biesinger
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April 29, 2025
Mississippi’s U-Pick Farms: A trend that’s growing
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C.H. Spurgeon
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April 29, 2025
Go first to God
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Parrish Alford
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April 28, 2025
The trouble with being Shedeur
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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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Rachel Canter
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April 23, 2025
A new vision for keeping Mississippi first
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