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July 15, 2008
SH – Backstrom granted prison choice
Backstrom granted prison choice Attorney Sidney Backstrom has been notified that he should report to a low-security prison camp in Arkansas to spend 28 months in prison for conspiring with Dickie Scruggs to bribe a state court judge. Backstrom had asked when he was sentenced to serve his time in Arkansas because he will be…
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July 15, 2008
Where’s Obama? McCain asks
Where’s Obama? McCain asks At nearly every town-hall meeting that John McCain conducts with voters these days, he stops to point out someone missing from the room: Barack Obama. “I’ve asked Senator Obama to join me in town halls across the nation,” McCain said here the other morning. His notion was that the two of…
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July 14, 2008
Barbour: Cuts in 23 days. Is Medicaid going under the knife?
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 7/13/8 Unless either House Democrats or Republican Gov. Haley Barbour retreat from current positions over the next three weeks, Mississippi Medicaid recipients could begin feeling massive budget cuts as soon as Aug. 4. Barbour notified the state’s Medicaid providers on Friday of his intention to cut $34.5 million per month from the…
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July 14, 2008
Two sides to FEMA’s surplus declaration
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 7/13/8 Last Sunday, I wrote about a recent visit to the Gulf Coast and the very complex problems that still confront many Mississippians there – problems of affordable housing, insurance woes and the difficulty in rebuilding one’s life in that struggling environment. Want to criticize the Federal Emergency Management Agency? I’ll help…
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July 14, 2008
Medicaid: Politics, not policy, at issue issue
The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 7/13/8 Gov. Haley Barbour has formulated what appears to be a fair, sustainable funding mechanism for Medicaid in the long term that might, just might, keep Medicaid from being a political football every few years. The failure of the Legislature to provide stable funding for the Medicaid program lawmakers authorize is a…
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July 14, 2008
Barbour: Hospitals may close
The Clarion-Ledger, 7/12/8 Some hospitals and nursing homes could shut down, doctors could stop seeing patients and thousands of health- care workers could lose their jobs statewide, according to providers responding to $375 million in Medicaid cuts revealed late Friday. The cuts also would affect home health care agencies, pharmacists, dentists and others, according to…
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July 14, 2008
Death row inmate: Jury selection unfair
The Clarion-Ledger, 7/14/8 A federal appeals court should throw out Paul Woodward’s death sentence because prosecutors plotted to keep blacks off a Jackson County jury, according to Woodward’s attorneys. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled a hearing on the issue for Sept. 3 in New Orleans. The panel did not rule on…
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July 14, 2008
Melton wants former lawmaker for Municipal Court judge
The Clarion-Ledger, 7/14/8 Jackson Mayor Frank Melton said he plans to tap former state Rep. John Reeves as the replacement for Municipal Court Judge Melvin Priester. Priester, who was appointed by Melton in 2005, was promoted by the Mississippi Supreme Court on Friday. Priester will be one of two new special judges to assist Hinds…
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July 14, 2008
State lawmaker returns to Vietnam
The Clarion-Ledger, 7/14/8 It was May 1968 when a then-21-year-old John Mayo climbed into a plane in Saigon, Vietnam, and headed back to the United States after 18 months of war, much of which was served as a lieutenant platoon leader in a combat engineer battalion. “When I left during the war I really didn’t…
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July 14, 2008
Obama would send 2 more brigades to Afghanistan
Obama would send 2 more brigades to Afghanistan “As president, I would pursue a new strategy, and begin by providing at least two additional combat brigades to support our effort in Afghanistan,” Obama said in an op-ed published Monday in The New York Times, a day before he plans a speech here on his vision…
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Magnolia Tribune
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July 14, 2008
Bush to lift executive ban on offshore drilling
Bush to lift executive ban on offshore drilling In another push to deal with soaring gas prices, President Bush on Monday will lift an executive ban on offshore drilling that his stood since his father was president. But the move, by itself, will do nothing unless Congress acts as well. The president plans to officially…
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July 14, 2008
DJ EDITORIAL:Call his hand
EDITORIAL:Call his hand There are strong arguments for using the cigarette tax to fund the Medicaid deficit. Cigarettes contribute greatly to Medicaid costs. It makes sense to connect funding for health care with the greatest single risk to personal health. But there’s also logic to Barbour’s argument that hospitals have been paying into the system…
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Jeremy Pittari
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May 28, 2026
Despite drop in latest public health emergency preparedness ranking, Mississippi’s State Health Officer remains confident
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Frank Corder
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May 28, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court sends Mississippi death row inmate’s appeal back to Fifth Circuit
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Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press
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May 28, 2026
Key inflation gauge worsens as Americans’ income and spending power erodes
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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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Associated Press
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May 28, 2026
SEC formally eliminates ‘cupcake weekend’ beginning in 2027
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Susan Marquez
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May 28, 2026
Things to do in the Magnolia State this June
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Alistair Begg
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May 28, 2026
God is for us
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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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