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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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June 26, 2008
Lawmakers return to find Medicaid fix
The Clarion-Ledger, 6/26/8 State lawmakers will resume a special session today without a compromise on a long-term funding solution for Medicaid, the health insurance program that serves about 600,000 Mississippians. Although House and Senate leaders met for hours on Wednesday, neither side budged on competing proposals to hike tobacco and hospital taxes, or both. Legislative…
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June 26, 2008
Hospital tax isn’t new; it’s a better way
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 6/26/8 The issue facing the Mississippi Legislature is really very simple. Do we want to continue to collect about $200 million a year from hospitals to help fund the Medicaid program – just as we have done for years – or do we want to reduce those payments by…
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June 26, 2008
Wicker addresses oil, immigration issue
The Leader Call, 6/25/8 The high cost of gasoline, the nation’s energy situation and illegal immigrants were some of the issues U.S. Senator Roger Wicker discussed during his recent campaign stop in Jones County. At one of Wicker’s stops, he visited veterans and their families at the Veterans Memorial Museum on Hillcrest Drive. Following a…
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August 11, 2025
Mississippi to receive $135 million in HUD disaster recovery funding for 2023, 2024 storms
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Daniel Tyson
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August 11, 2025
What is Mississippi’s pitch to corporations looking to invest in the Magnolia State?
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August 11, 2025
Magnolia Mornings: August 11, 2025
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Daniel Tyson
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August 7, 2025
Mississippi is an attractive place for corporate investment. Find out why
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Lynne Jeter
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August 5, 2025
Mancuso Chemicals investing $5.52 million in the Magnolia State
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August 4, 2025
Cherry elected Mississippi Power chairman, CEO
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Parrish Alford
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August 11, 2025
There’s a lot of football to be played before November, but the Egg Bowl you have with you always
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Robert St. John
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August 11, 2025
Onward
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Alistair Begg
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August 11, 2025
An attitude like Christ’s
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Paul Sperry
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August 11, 2025
Whistleblower ties Clinton campaign to fake Russia hack
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Russ Latino
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August 10, 2025
Will Mississippi Republicans stand with President Trump on school choice or side with Democratic colleagues to oppose him?
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Kelley Williams
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August 7, 2025
Bob Dylan and the Overton Window
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