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May 21, 2008
Governor Barbour Expands The Call For Special Session
GOVERNOR BARBOUR PUTS EIGHT ITEMS ON ‘CALL’Today, Governor Barbour announced the following items are also on the call: • Require voters to show identification at the polls; • Make technical clarifying amendments to a recently-enacted immigration law; • Authorize and appropriate funds for a judicial pay raise of 15 percent for judges and 10 percent…
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May 21, 2008
PARLOFF – Did Scruggs have a third insider?
Did Scruggs have a third insider? The notion that Scruggs had a third insider located in Bloomington, Illinois – i.e., State Farm’s corporate headquarters – is one that Scruggs does not appear to have ever floated again in any context, be it media appearance or court filing. Scruggs-ologists have wondered, therefore: Had Scruggs just made…
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May 21, 2008
Judge: AG’s failure to respond a mistake
The Clarion-Ledger, 5/20/8 A federal judge ruled the attorney general’s office did not deliberately fail to respond to a lethal injection challenge filed by four death row inmates. Attorney General Jim Hood had asked U.S. District Judge Allen Pepper to lift the default. Hood contended in court papers his office erred but it was an…
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May 21, 2008
JPD likely will forgo $12.5M in officer-salary grants
The Clarion-Ledger, 5/20/8 The Jackson Police Department apparently will miss out on about $12.5 million in federal grant money meant to pay the salaries of new police officers. Valerie Nevels, assistant chief administrative officer for the city, said Monday that the city has spent about $1.5 million of a $14.8 million COPS Universal Hire grant…
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May 21, 2008
Area officials cite glitch, hope for storm funds
The Clarion-Ledger, 5/20/8 A communication issue in the days after the April 4 tornados may have hurt Hinds County’s initial appeal for federal disaster assistance, but state and local officials say they are encouraged the money might still come. “If we had all worked more closely the first time around, we wouldn’t have had to…
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May 21, 2008
Much dissent, but all say change needed State tax structure studied
The Clarion-Ledger, 5/20/8 A group studying Mississippi’s tax structure is getting plenty of contradictory advice from business groups, elected officials and private residents. Owners of small businesses said during a public meeting Monday that they want to reduce or eliminate the inventory tax. City and county leaders warned the loss of revenue from inventory taxes…
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May 21, 2008
Berry appeals now going to US Supreme Court
WXTV, 5/20/8 Only the U.S. Supreme Court can stop Earl Wesley Berry’s scheduled execution now. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans yesterday (Monday) refused to stop Berry’s execution, now set for 6 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday) at the state penitentiary at Parchman. Also, Gov. Haley Barbour’s office, as expected, says Barbour will…
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May 21, 2008
DSCC Poll Shows Musgrove Leading In Miss. Senate Race
DSCC poll shows Musgrove leading in Miss. Senate race Just one week after Democrats picked up Sen. Roger Wicker’s (R-Miss.) former House seat in northeast Mississippi, the party’s Senate campaign committee released a new poll showing Wicker trailing former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove (D) in November’s special election Senate race. The poll shows Musgrove leading Wicker…
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May 21, 2008
Proposal to restrict casinos is sound
The Hattiesburg American Editorial, 5/19/8 Gov. Haley Barbour’s proposal to restrict casinos to counties where they already exist is a good idea that merits serious legislative consideration. Barbour told the Southern Gaming Summit in Biloxi that he intended to put the matter on the agenda of an upcoming special legislative session. Whether there is sufficient…
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May 20, 2008
Special session: A useless taxpayer expense
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 5/20/8 MISSISSIPPI TAXPAYERS SHOULD TAKE NO JOY — nor let lawmakers forget – that the special session Gov. Haley Barbour has called for Wednesday is an extravagance. State lawmakers boasted they would be able to adjourn before the 125 days allotted for the regular session and still be able to do their…
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May 20, 2008
North Mississippi to finally get its congressman
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 5/20/8 Booneville’s Travis Childers is expected to take the oath as Mississippi’s newest U.S. House member today. Family and friends have traveled to the nation’s capital for the ceremony to officially seat the former Prentiss County chancery clerk to represent the 1st Congessional District. The self-described conservative Democrat succeeds Tupelo’s…
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May 20, 2008
Education: Fuel costs eat up financial gains?
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 5/19/8 Public education supporters are satisfied after a legislative session that saw the state’s basic funding obligation filled for the first time in a nonelection year, but will “full funding” be robbed again? The Mississippi Adequate Education Program was fully funded as part of the nine-part public schools package of The Quality…
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May 15, 2025
Magnolia Mornings: May 15, 2025
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Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press
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May 14, 2025
House Republicans pull an all-nighter on Trump’s tax bill. There’s more work to do
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May 14, 2025
Democrats are deeply pessimistic about the future of their party, an AP-NORC poll finds
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Frank Corder
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May 15, 2025
HH2 relocating Kentucky distribution center to Blue Mountain, Mississippi
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Frank Corder
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May 14, 2025
Nissan says Canton factory strategically important as company announces workforce reductions
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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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C.H. Spurgeon
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May 15, 2025
Be sure
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M.C. Reid
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May 14, 2025
Pascagoula sailor Nelson Walker sets out for solo circumnavigation aboard Persimmon
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Richelle Putnam
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May 14, 2025
It all begins with a song: The heart of the Mississippi Songwriters Alliance
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Sid Salter
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May 14, 2025
MS Gaming: Legislative standoff over off-premises online sports betting continues
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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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