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Magnolia Tribune
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August 14, 2008
DJ – Go ahead, give a gift – don’t expect favors
This week’s guilty pleas surrounding the defunct Mississippi Beef Plant likely have left political campaign contributors scratching their heads. When did it become illegal to make a substantial donation to a sitting official because you hoped you’d need a favor down the line? Apparently, it’s been illegal for a while. If you doubt it, check…
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August 14, 2008
Tide coach Nick Saban lands the cover of Forbes Magazine
http://blog.al.com/bamabeat/2008/08/tide_coach_nick_saban_lands_a.html For those who’ve never thought SEC football would be connected with one of the nation’s leading business publications, take a look at the cover of the Sept. 1 issue of Forbes Magazine. Alabama coach Nick Saban is there, smiling confidently in Bryant-Denny Stadium with a headline declaring him “Sports’ Most Powerful Coach.” “Nobody plays…
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August 14, 2008
NRSC – Musgrove Bumbling Along
NRSC 8/13/8
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August 14, 2008
Jamie Franks Speech today
Here is the opening statement Jamie Franks, chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party, gave at the start of a news conference here today on Sen. John McCain’s close ties to Big Oil. JAMIE FRANKS: “Good afternoon. “Our economy is failing. Businesses are closing and people are losing jobs. The price of food is rising. And…
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August 13, 2008
Cawood pleads to one count information – UPDATED with plea for 30 months
Nixon Cawood has pleaded to a one count information in the Beef Plant trial. Information Fact Basis Plea Agreement Cawood recalled that Moultrie stated that they had a lot “invested” in (Ronnie) Musgrove.
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August 13, 2008
Tuck GOP test could come against Bryant
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 8/13/8 In Gov. Haley Barbour’s third year in office, then-Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck made a very public break with her fellow Republican when she proposed increasing the cigarette tax and using the additional revenue to decrease the state tax on groceries. Barbour, who had an iron-fist grip over the…
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August 13, 2008
Celebs not in Farish refurb
The Clarion-Ledger, 8/13/8 After years of delay and disappointment, the Farish Street entertainment district appeared back on track with grand plans, including sizable investments by renowned actor Morgan Freeman and blues legend B.B. King. However, representatives of King and Freeman said Tuesday they are not investors in the new plans for an expanded Farish Street…
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August 13, 2008
Musgrove stumps in Coast counties
The Sun Herald, 8/13/8 If elected, Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Ronnie Musgrove said Tuesday he would push for multiperil insurance coverage and lower gas prices, and he’d put Mississippi before partisan politics. Tuesday the former Democratic governor toured Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties. In Ocean Springs he met with supporters at a restaurant; among the…
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August 13, 2008
Sid Salter – Beef plant: To indict or not to indict?
Right now, the ongoing Beef Plant scandal is burning up the blogosphere. Former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove and the Democratic Governors Association took a total of $95,000, so says the federal prosecutors, from the Facility Group and their executives in 2003 when the company was overseeing the construction and start up of the Mississippi Beef Processors…
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August 13, 2008
Beef plant: Weak campaign cash laws exposed
The latest guilty plea in the ongoing Mississippi Beef Processors scandal lays bare a fundamental weakness in Mississippi campaign finance law – a weakness that creates a tenuous line of demarcation between a legal campaign donation and a bribe. All told, Moultrie and other Facility Group executives gave Musgrove and the Democratic Governors Association a…
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August 13, 2008
First The Feres Twins, Now Leryn Franco
First The Feres Twins, Now Leryn Franco si.com 8/12/08
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August 13, 2008
Other beef plant defendants to plead guilty
Beef Plant defendants Nixon Cawood and Charles Morehead, executives with The Facility Group of Georgia, are expected to change their pleas to guilty on a one-count information – Cawood today and Morehead on Thursday. So say two filings late Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Mississippi. The hearings are set…
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Frank Corder
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May 27, 2026
Owens, Lumumba, Banks have until Friday to change their plea in Jackson bribery case
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Eddie Pells, Associated Press
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May 27, 2026
Key Senators Cruz, Cantwell look to break college sports logjam in Congress with a bipartisan bill
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Frank Corder
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May 27, 2026
Mississippi looks to capitalize on new critical minerals industry
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Daniel Tyson
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May 20, 2026
International Paper breaks ground on new $225 million facility in central Mississippi
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Frank Corder
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May 14, 2026
Azuria Water Solutions breaks ground on new manufacturing facility in Batesville
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Frank Corder
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May 12, 2026
M&M Bank’s Legear named chair of Atlanta Fed’s Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council
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Marilyn Tinnin
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May 27, 2026
Mississippi Legends: Leontyne Price
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Alistair Begg
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May 27, 2026
Forgiven and forgiving
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Frank Corder
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May 26, 2026
Southern Miss, Miss. State hosting NCAA baseball regionals; Ole Miss heads to Lincoln
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Brent Sadler
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May 27, 2026
The Navy needs a strategic industrial plan to realize the Golden Fleet
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Sid Salter
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May 27, 2026
For most Americans, gas prices are the top public policy concern rising from Iran conflict
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Roger Wicker
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May 26, 2026
Deterrence is cheaper than war
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