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JJ - Another scrum on Medicaid expansion
PENDER - Medicaid special session: Battle of rules and strate-gery - expect 3 Medicaid bills
USDOJ watching elections in 6 Miss. cities
Clarion Ledger writer goofs on local tabloid election paranoia
Mississippi’s Redistricting Saga Ends With A Wimper
SPR - Environmental Group Has Questions for Utility Execs
You’d hardly know it was news . . . SCOTUS upholds MS redistricting and rejects NAACP lawsuit
New Jonathan Lee ad quoting some of Chokwe Lumumba’s views
Sen. John Horhn and Credell Calhoun both endorse Jonathan Lee for Mayor of Jackson
YP - Hurricane ‘predictions’ and the media fawning over them really chap my butt
Mississippi Tea Party Responds to IRS Harassment Revelations
West Memphis based Southland Park Gaming runs anti-Mississippi ads to promote their casinah
Steve Seale pens Clarion Ledger op-ed on benefits of ALEC and gets a rather uneducated response
Huge leap for Delbert Hosemann’s campaign manager Casey Phillips - now the ad guy for Chris Christie
Ethics Comm Dir. Tom Hood embarasses Brandon Jones and Bobby Moak over dinner at Capitol
In ‘unprecedented’ preening for the press, former Rep. Brandon Jones looks desperate for relevance
Court rules in favor of Bigger Pie public records request compelling PSC to produce info
JJ - Dickie/Zach Scruggs’ lawyer Mike Moore and Billy Quin chosen to sue BP on behalf of Jim Hood
Sen. Roger Wicker plays political battle over gun rights perfectly
MBJ - Bond money to move Marty Stuart museum forward
Is Ike Brown helping Percy Brown in Meridian mayoral race?
Corinth man Paul Kevin Curtis accused in suspicious mailings to Obama, Wicker
BRIAN PERRY - Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) right to debate guns
BIGGERPIE - MS Democratic Party chairman: Kemper plant already built
BPF - Private service using MS public school students’ data
City Grocery, we hardly knew ye - ZNN reports Dickie Scruggs requests to go back to prison on 4/29
BREAKING - Dickie Scruggs denied at the 5th Circuit
When Bobby Harrison says the Dems are bluffing on Medicaid, you know it’s bad
Sam Hall (D-Clarion Ledger) - Looking Forward, Democrats On Better Footing In Medicaid Expansion
‘Reauthorize Medicaid Now Without Precondition’
SAMHALL - Notes From Stennis-Capitol Press Luncheon With David Blount & Andy Gipson
Is Sam Hall hiding who’s really to blame for Medicaid in MS? Everyone AND no one?
Rep. Bobby Howell (R) on need to reauthorize Medicaid and Mississippi Democrats refusal to do so
Brian Perry discusses hypocrisy of Ronnie Musgrove’s ‘conversion’
Will Mississippi Republicans open the gift they’ve been given?
Vicksburg mayoral candidate and CNN ‘Hero’ Linda Fondren admits tie to brothel after denying it
JJ - Rep. Bennett Malone brought in for House votes
GUNN - Original House Charter School Bill Conference Report Adopted
Rigsby Gals rest - Cori never takes the stand
Only in MS - Vicksburg Mayoral Candidate Linda Fondren linked to ownership of Nevada brothels by CL
Charter school bill loses House vote, but not dead
Myrlie Evers to be featured speaker of Millsaps College lecture series
Keith Plunkett pushes Lynn Fitch as a potential challenger to Tate Reeves for LG
MC Law School makes Mississippi legislative debate video available in archived form
Mal’s St. Paddy’s Day Parade this weekend in downtown Jackson
Medicaid Expansion – an ‘economic development’ mirage
Capitol Prayer Ministry Luncheon set for this Thursday March 14 at noon
MS Democratic Trust complains about Medicaid after refusing to reauthorize current program
BILL CRAWFORD - Steve Holland should apologize to Phil Bryant
Jackson mayoral candidate Regina Quinn explains 2 bankruptcies - “I’m a real person”
Governor Phil Bryant vows lawsuit if Obamacare winds up shortchanging state’s existing Medicaid
Kingfish and Amile Wilson team up to do outstanding profile of former MDA head Leland Speed
Carnival-barker turned Rep. Steve Holland pens letter to Gov. Bryant calling him a ‘fool’
SAM HALL - MS Hospital Assn’s Medicaid strategy is ‘tremendous miscalculation’
MS Governor Phil Bryant signs two gun owner protection laws
BPF - Should Miss. raise the bar on teacher requirements?
Big victory for tort reform efforts out of the 5th Circuit
MS Democratic Trust 2012 Financial Report
Steve Seale named as national Chairman of Private Enterprise Advisory Council for ALEC
Geoff Pender piece on mood of the MS Senate
With exception of civilian military furloughs, sequestration effects minimal on state of MS
ZNN Headline - “Cities needs the right to their tax”
Arthur Laffer has great WSJ op-ed on elminiating disincentives for working poor
Thoughts on the Obamacare exchange denial in Mississippi
PENDER - House Bill prohibits PERS Iranian investments
Ole Miss the talk of the sports world
MS Power’s $1-billion bond bill could be taken up this week
Kingfish exposes Milton Kuykendall’s fight against special needs education legislation
SNOWDEN - Broad Support for House Charter School Bill
Southaven Mayor Greg Davis’ embezzlement trial set for April
MS GOP Chair Joe Nosef on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on 1/23/13
Madison County GOP President’s Day Gala to be on 2/18/13 at the Hilton in Jackson
US House Republicans turn up head on US Senate Democrats to pass a budget #NoBudgetNoPay
YP FLASHBACK on why we think Zach Scruggs is appealing to SCOTUS
FLASH - In wee hours, House votes 64-55 largely along party lines to pass Charter School Bill
Nancy Loome and Parent’s organization back House version of charter school bill right before passage
Zach Scruggs, now working for Solar Blue in Orlando, appeals to SCOTUS - decision to hear on 2/15/13
SUPERTALK - The Media, Saturday Night Live and Gov. Phil Bryant’s Response
It’s not your strategy, it’s your message
Romney’s ‘body man’ moving forward
SNL goofs on Gov. Phil Bryant, calls MS legislature 30 hissing possums in a barn
Rep. Bobby Moak registers KeepThemHonest.ms - no word yet on who ‘them’ is
Helping Ordinary Mississippians Be Anonymous
Tishomingo Rep. Bubba Carpenter wants schools to be able to arm teachers
Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid - hurt of Katrina nothing compared to what happened in New England
Foundation for Excellence in Education CEO calls out Nancy Loome and the Parents’ Campaign
John Stewart of the Daily Show takes a swipe at Rep. Palazzo and House Hurricane Sandy vote
Bobby Harrison conflates Bryant resistance to Obamacare to Ross Barnett’s resistance to integration
Public Sentiment on Charter Schools is overwhelmingly in favor
Be4MS releases charter school results - 70% of Mississippians favor charter schools
Access Hollywood covers Sam Haskell LA book party
Christi McCoy to MSSC - my client’s broke, UPS Oxford sux & you cost a lot
Slabbed gets the Canadian lawsuit against him tossed in good ole US Federal Court
Mugshot of Mayor Greg Davis
BREAKING - Southaven, MS Mayor Greg Davis indicted
CMR behind closed doors to talk legal, personnel issues
Kingfish reports indictment of Austin & Claiborne Frazier, CE Frazier and Spencer Copeland
ATRA’s 2012 Judicial Hellhole report - and Mississippi ain’t on it thanks to Sunshine laws on AG
Active MS political consultant, known for work for Hosemann, Casey Phillips featured in Roll Call
Kemper coal plant: Report disputes price tag, completion date - it’s looking more like $3B now
Political intrigue between Phil Bryant and Mike Chaney - Haley said to Chaney “just hang in there”
What the Decision Means—NAACP vs. Barbour, Hood and Hosemann
Here Enterprises (PINK: HRTE) run by Hal Neilson has now been moved to OTC “no information” status
Democrats, Gunn trade jokes
Marty Wiseman: Sifting through the aftermath
Haley Barbour to POLITICO - ‘You can’t be purist’
Union Ding-Dongs kill Hostess
Kingfish rails on anti-charter school online petition from ACLU groupie
Haley Barbour, Jeb Bush tout immigration reform
BIGGERPIE - Mississippi’s 2013 tax climate looking pretty good
Kingfish on Governor Phil Bryant hiring new education advisor
Lafayette County Democrats and Republicans issue joint statement over Ole Miss disturbance
Rep. Earle Banks forces put out ‘dirty tricks’ robocall - invokes Dickie Scruggs
Dickie Scruggs now trying for appeal bail - on 2/11/9 - “I acknowledge and own up fully to my role”
Auditor Stacey Pickering’s Office is in Biloxi checking Department of Marine Resources records
Merrell Williams boldly states Obama, John Grisham and Houston trial lawyer will free Dickie Scruggs
Mississippi AG Jim Hood inserts himself in Prince Harry “party girl” flap
Kingfish documents Tea Party goofing with local free entertainment mag and them taking her seriously
MS Democratic Chair asserts that Americans would say they’re better off now than four years ago
SUPERTALK - Hob Bryan to WCBI - 2013 Education Legislation “Dangerous”
NFIB endorses Waller, Randolph, Coleman, Russell
Rep. Bennie Thompson (MS-2) says if he got everything he wanted, Mississippi would be a better place
State Auditor Stacey Pickering Returns Surplus Property Worth $300,000 from Bassfield Investigation
Mitt Romney campaign office to open in Oxford on 10/12 - Lynn Fitch to speak
Flip Phillips ad for MSSC
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant Unveils Energy Development Plan
Ashby Foote on SuperTalk: Run Kemper plant on natural gas
ZNN - 5th Circuit denies new Zach Scruggs appeal - no member wanted to hear it
BIGGER PIE - MS pension system needs reform now
State Senator Joey FIllingane on DOJ’s delay of implementing Mississippi’s Voter ID law
MS Governor Phil Bryant -The truth about Obamacare in Mississippi
Obama Justice Department intentionally postpones Mississippi Voter ID law till after election
MS Democrats hold watch party for 10/3 presidential debate
Haley Barbour on Leadership - Gridlock is the result of President’s failed leadership
LG Tate Reeves questions Treasurer Lynn Fitch on consistency of her MPACT stance vis a vis PERS
PETTUS - Analysis: Coffee, tea and punditry from fmr. MS Governor Haley Barbour
Kingfish exposes bias of Capitol press corps in post-LBO presser
Video: Bigger Pie vs Mississippi Power for public records
MS Senators Thad Cochran & Roger Wicker Join Amicus Brief on Obama’s NLRB Appointments
Haley Barbour on media bias in the presidential race - coffeewithhaley.com
Bobby Harrison bemoans Republican endorsement of MSSC Judge Bill Waller
2Q US GDP revised downward 24% from previous estimate
NE MS Jobless rate dips 2 points - MS unemployment rate falls to 9.1%
MS Federation of College Republicans receives grant to run a Romney phone bank
George Flaggs, Vicksburg and Incidentals
Haley Barbour on health insurance
Overturned like a flapjack - Judge Winston Kidd gets reversed by MSSC over Latrice Westbrooks
Holder to give civil-rights speech at Ole Miss
SUPERTALK - Rep. George Flaggs (D-Vicksburg) Says He’ll Give up Seat on 7/1/13
MS Dems endorse Rep. Earle Banks (D) in MS Supreme Court race
Haley Barbour on QE3 - the Fed’s covering up for Obama’s failed policies/predicting ongoing weakness
MLR - Eaton Contemplated Trying to Improperly Influence Judge Swan Yerger
Judge says Eaton had ‘blatant disregard’ for producing documents to Mississippi court
JJ - Officials clash over MPACT program
New A-F school grading system in Mississippi sheds light on real status of public education
YP - MS Democrats’ MS-04 replacement candidate an unemployed student
Video - James Meredith Speaks to MBJ
Davis: Cochran is Mississippi’s statesman
MALKIN - Boos as Dems vote to recognize God and Jerusalem in party platform . . . must watch
MS GOP Chair #JoeNosef on MSNBC’s Morning Joe with Tom Brokaw and Al Hunt
Mississippian Freda Bush talks about being a delegate at the RNC
BREAKING - MS GOP Chairman Joe Nosef will be a guest on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on 8/31 at 6:35
Portions of Mississippi Declared Federal Disaster Area
Haley Barbour on Paul Ryan speech at CoffeeWithHaley.com
Yahoo’s David Chalian: Romneys ‘Happy to Have a Party With Black People Drowning’
Coffee with Haley Barbour - today talking about the Paul Ryan pick
#isaac - Sun Herald picks up on the Weather Channel gaffe “land mass between New Orleans and Mobile”
Have coffee with Haley . . . seriously . . . at coffeewithHaley.com
Hancock County issues mandatory evacuation in advance of #Isaac
Speaker Pro Tem Greg Snowden’s report from the RNC in Tampa
#isaac - MS Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney urges evacuating homeowners to protect property
#isaac -The Weather Channel refers to Mississippi as “the land mass between New Orleans and Mobile”
Gov. Phil Bryant issues Executive Order to protect Mississippi against federal immigration policy
Chairmans PAC (Barbour, Hederman, Herring & White) endorse Josiah Coleman for MSSC
MS Business Journal appropriately acquired by a non profit corporation
Contractors dispute claim of shoddy work at Kemper
Former Billy Hewes staffer writes piece calling Tate Reeves’ position on state bond bill “contrived”
Mississippi Manufacturers Association Endorses MSSC Justice Mike Randolph
Is Zach Scruggs Innocent? 5th Circuit: Meh. It Doesn’t Matter
YP - Zach Scruggs totally shut down at the 5th circuit
Appeals court refuses to vacate Zach Scruggs’ guilty plea in corruption case
Fox News Contributor and former MS-01 candidate Angela McGlowan on Hannity talking about Joe Biden
WISEMAN at MBJ - A brief change in the political scenery
Tate Reeves’ Neshoba Co. Fair Porch Interview 2012
Mississippi Power’s credit rating cut by second agency - this time Moodys
AirGuide to Locate Manufacturing Operations in Clarksdale, Miss.
Mississippi’s Dropout Factories - MCPP looks at drop out rates around Mississippi
MS politico Burns Strider attempts to portray new GOP VP candidate as “anti-Christian”
Drama in Little Rock - Oxford American founder ousted over harassment claims
Brian Perry deconstructs MSM’s false characterization of Reagan’s 1980 Neshoba speech
Sen. Terry Burton appointed to MS Home Corporation Oversight Committee
Sen. Joey Fillingane Letter to the Editor on Capitol Prayer Ministry
Delbert Hosemann’s NCF speech - ‘The Mississippi Way’
Video of MCPP Education Reform Liberty Luncheon
Thanks Prez O! - unemployment rate rises again to 8.3% (ERRRRR 8.254%)
Feds and Stacey Pickering bust another public corruption case - Jim Hood’s office nowhere in sight
Police and Fire Networks Hit U.S. Roadblock
MS4 candidate Ron Williams says anti Chick-Fil-A mayors “need to be introduced to the 2nd Amendment”
Delbert Hosemann helps facilitate Demolition of Unsafe Property adjacent to Local School
WYATT EMMERICH: Kemper plant generates a ‘plethora of risks’
Transportation Commissioner Dick Hall advocates for higher gas tax
CL EDITORIAL - Church’s blatant racism inexcusable
MS SOS Delbert Hosemann issues Statement on Brennan Center Voter ID Report
MLR - ‘Randolph is going to squash Braddock’ in MSSC election
Kingfish does his top 10 political up and comer list
Bobby Harrison brings Soros’ anti-Voter ID message to Mississippi
MS Delta native Morgan Freeman donates $1,000,000 to Obama superPAC
Really good post from NMC deconstructing the Zach Scruggs legal argument at the 5th
MS-1 Democrat candidate Brad Morris to hold concall tonight at 7:00 p.m.- Will he support Pelosi?
Mississippi Power asks Supreme Court to force a rate hike over Kemper County plant
PLUNKETT - Chicken Little Syndrome: Voter ID
MS Democratic Trust touts more on Obamacare
Auditor Stacey Pickering Issues Demands Against Former Regional Mental Health Director for $423,000
YP - Fmr. state senator and Lott Chief Counsel Steve Seale quietly seeking support for AG in 2015
MS Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney reacts to the Obamacare ruling
Democrat Brad Morris (D MS-1 candidate) reiterates support for Obamacare
SCOTUS, Immigration and Mississippi
Video - Water Valley Main Street Wins State Awards
After 6 Years of Legal Wrangling after Dickie Scruggs, State Farm & the Rigsby Gals Headed to Trial
You can’t make this stuff up…
BIPEC recommends conservatives Waller, Randolph & Coleman for MSSC posts in November
Scruggs Leaks Can’t Save State Farm From Katrina FCA Suit with the Rigsby gals (sub rqd)
Film shines spotlight on lawsuit history
BRIAN PERRY - ‘Injustice’ and state’s trial lawyers
JJ - Judge Wingate rules former MSSC Judge Oliver Diaz cannot represent Paul Minor and must testify
FORBES - What John Edwards (and Dickie Scruggs) Tell Us About the Legal Profession
Judge Biggers denies Sid Backstrom motion - says Backstrom has ‘not been forthcoming’ with the court
YP BREAKING - MSSC rules for Auditor Stacey Pickering on $14M MCI fee case against Joey Langston
Hal Neilson and Here Enterprises (HRTE) - Welcome to the SEC (and not the football conference)
ZNN - Dickie Scruggs’ appeal denied in district court (but he’s still dreamy)
Bill Minor (bless his heart) calls redistricting plan ‘Dennymandered’
Slabbed nabs Paul Minor’s final disbarment recommendation from Louisiana
YP - Former FBI Agent Hal Neilson tapped as CEO of Here Enterprises, Inc. (OTCBB: HRTE)
NMC - Dickie Scruggs to Judge Davidson: Decide my petition, because I could be getting out soon.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire
YP STATUS REPORT - Fmr. MS Auditor Steve Patterson attempts to file secret motion to go to Europe
Fmr. MS Board of Health nominee - ‘Abortion is not a huge public health issue for Mississippi women’
Jim Barksdale comments on Brett Christensen appointment
MBJ interview with new MDA chief Brent Christensen
Gov. Bev Perdue (D) refuses to apologize to Gov. Phil Bryant (R) for her anti-Mississippi remarks
Marshall Ramsey puts it right back to Gov. Bev Purdue: ‘Lookin’ like us’
MS Gov. Phil Bryant(R) responds to NC Gov. Bev Purdue(D) over her derogatory remarks on Mississippi
MS Lt. Gov Tate Reeves (R) responds to NC Gov. Bev Purdue (D) over her remarks on Mississippi
NC Governor Bev Perdue (D) - ‘We look like Mississippi’
ALEC grades MS Education - 48th overall - ‘C’ on policy - ‘F’ on charter school law
Haley Barbour - the difference between Bobby Jindal and Blanco ‘could hardly have been more stark’
MS Democrat Party Leader Jamie Franks supports Obama on economy - ‘we still have General Motors’
PERRY - Mississippi Democrats brag on charter defeat
MSTP touts accomplishments over last 3 years
Letter from Congressmen Harper, Nunnelee & Palazzo re: Stephanie Gyamfi and DOJ bias against MS
SOS Delbert Hosemann addresses anti-Mississippi comments made by DOJ lead analyst Stephanie Gyamfi
Editorials - Miss. ATV laws; closing post offices won’t fix Service
Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker celebrate Obama administration about face on ‘farm chores’
Former House Education Chair Cecil Brown (D) talks about how charter schools should work
Mississippi House roll call on voter ID
New redistricting maps show MS Gulf Coast won’t lose representation
Governor Bryant signs HB 317 that will help attract more physicians to Mississippi
Mississippian Austin Barbour mentioned again as one of top Mitt Romney fundraisers nationally
Former Tchula Mayor and MS-02 Republican nominee Yvonne Brown has died
YP - Required watching . . . . ‘If I wanted America to fail’
JJ - JPS Parents start to push back on Superintendent nominees
MPP - MS Dems Hitting Replay
Desoto County School Superintendent Milton Kuykendall - ‘I’m for charter schools’
With all apologies to Dick Molpus, this is how easy it is to commit voter fraud without voter ID
JT on Supertalk goofs on the 5 Republicans that voted against charter schools
LG Tate Reeves statement on charter schools
MCPP - Charter Schools bill fails in House Education Committee
MS GOP Chairman Joe Nosef pushes for legislative action on charter schools
Rep. Cecil Brown - ‘Democrats do not argue for immediate full funding of MAEP’
New US Attorney in Jackson
NMC puts the Peters/DeLaughter timing in a bit more perspective - #dickiescruggs
NMC finds the FBI interview that Ed Peters lied about DeLaughter in his initial interview - #dickie
Workers’ Comp reform bill passes Mississippi House 60-56
Kingfish on the charter school bill being in jeopardy
Kingfish reports on a physical scuffle between Rep. Bob Evans and Rep. Bennett Malone
And Now for the Rest of the Session
YP - Famous quotes by Mike Moore in the Dickie/Zach Scruggs cases - It seems he’ll say ANYTHING
POINTOFLAW - Dickie Scruggs tries to wiggle out of guilty plea
NMC - The Tim Balducci testimony in the Dickie Scruggs hearing
Mayor Greg Davis surrenders to authorities, charged with passing school bus
ZNN quotes Mike Moore - “I think we nailed them today”
Like father, like son - Dickie Scruggs chickens out at the moment of truth
YP BREAKING - Dickie Scruggs hearing over - Dickie DOES NOT take the stand
Rift among MS House Dems? Ed Blackmon argues against David Baria’s stance on pardons
NMC - Ed Peters will not testify in Scruggsapolooza II
OXFORD EAGLE - Opening statements begin in Dickie Scruggs hearing
ZNN - Former US Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott testifies for his brother in law Dickie Scruggs
ZNN - Dickie’s still dreamy
YP CORRECTION - Florida has retained outside counsel to handle BP litigation . . . for 2.5% max
Bobby DeLaughter strikes back and lashes out at Mike Moore on question of testifying
Mike Moore will likely not be working on BP next Monday - Dickie Scruggs’ guilt expo starts
Overlawyered looks at Jim Hood’s hiring of Mike Moore for BP case
LegalNewsline picks up on Jim Hood’s hiring of Mike Moore to handle BP conflict
Fees in Mike Moore’s contract to sue BP on behalf of Jim Hood are not enumerated
Lt. Governor Tate Reeves and Gov. Phil Bryant both urge caution on MS revenue estimate
T. Boone Pickens to talk with Gov. Phil Bryant about adding alternative fuel stations on Coast
NMC calls out Bill Maher
After mocking video, top Obama supporter Bill Maher called MS & AL primaries ‘Toothless Tuesday’
Young Democrats of MS to hold convention at union hall - add four new caucuses
Major Obama funder Bill Maher and Nancy Pelosi’s daughter insult Mississippi
‘You might be a redneck if’ you support Romney - Foxworthy to stump in Biloxi & JXN on 3/12
Republican race faces possible shake-up after Gingrich withdrawal whispers
YallPolitics analysis on Tuesday’s Republican Primary in Mississippi
Alabama Democrats under fire back away from Bill Maher
YP BREAKING - Governor Phil Bryant (R-MS) formally endorses Mitt Romney for President
Newt Gingrich addresses MS Senate - Lt. Gov Tate Reeves keeps him at ‘arms length’
YP - Alabama Democrats to have Bill Maher headline their latest fundraiser
Senate bill seeks to cut state agency advertising
YP BREAKING - Former Speaker Newt Gingrich adds stops in Mississippi for Friday, March 9
Kingfish has the latest from the public school lobby on charter schools
Sens. Brown and Flowers introduce bill to keep agencies from using radio/tv ads to promote programs
Sun Herald calls on Phil Bryant to slow down energy exploration permitting
YP - Former AGs Mike Moore and Ed Pittman sign amicus upon which Scruggs lawyers argue
MBJ Editor recalls recent robocall by Jim Hood messaging his ire at the Legislature
COTTONMOUTH - House floor vote on the beer bill - HB 1422
Ken I. Stokes channels his inner Kirk Fordice - talk of dark alleys and feet up asses
Outside counsel hired to handle last beef plant lawsuit for state of MS
More links between HonorYourPromise and Zata3
MCPP pushes HB 888 - the Charter Schools Bill - could be on House Floor by Thursday
YP - Sen. Kelvin Butler passes off CottonMouth post on charter schools as his update - UPDATED
Video - Dana Habers, 2012 MBJ Business Woman of the Year
MPP on Charter Schools - the education status quo “hasn’t worked”
Honor Your Promise operator continues shadowy behavior - UPDATED x2
The Mississippi Charter Schools Bill SB2401 passes without amendment on Senate floor 34-17
LG Tate Reeves - Charter schools will give parents choice
ZNN - Case against former USA Jim Greenlee dismissed
MBJ - Q&A with Heather McTeer, candidate for MS-1 as challenger to Rep. Bennie Thompson
YP - Pee in a cup for Sunshine? #drugs #msleg
Hiding in the shadows
Downward PR spiral continues for Southaven mayor Greg Davis
Pew study: 1 in 8 voter records flawed
MS LIT - PI Plaintiffs get crused in trials reported in February
House Democrats cranking up propaganda machine over new rules
New staffers for MS GOP and Dems
Kingfish has the full videos of the MSSC arguments over the Barbour Pardons
Steve Holland’s bill to change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America makes International news
Austin Barbour gets another national mention speaking for Mitt Romney to the press
NMC has the latest on documents in the pardon case
YP - Emily Pettus is reaching and just gets the facts flat out wrong in her most recent piece
YP - A proud member of the 1%
MS Democratic Trust complains about budgeting process
YP BREAKING - Appeal to MS Supreme Court to enforce Haley Barbour pardons
Kingfish shreds on CottonMouth
RNC Chairman Priebus Congratulates Newly Elected Chairman of the MSGOP Joe Nosef
CL - AG Jim Hood’s office helped advise on pardons - may be conflicted in legal fight
Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney recognizes Tate Reeves and other officials who have endorsed him
Judge rules to clarify earlier decision on oil spill lawyers’ fees
MBJ - Justice Department opposes fees awarded to oil spill lawyers
YP - Shouldn’t a PSC Commish be worried about your utility rates instead of pardons?
CL - Ag museum exec takes down-to-earth approach
Wyatt Emmerich explains the rise of NJAM and goofs on its nemesis
On cue, within hours of YP post, the MS Democratic party updates website after six month absence
YP - Apparently, the MS Democratic Party has just given up
Barbour considers clemency for convicts - WARNING - Matt Steffey quote
MSU Stennis Institute’s Marty Wiseman advocates for Mayor Greg Davis
Kingfish videos JRA meeting where Convention Hotel and TCI (NYSE: TCI) were put on hold
JRA nixes hotel proposals after two attorneys refuse to represent - potentially saves millions
Mayor Greg Davis billed Southaven for gay shop buy
ESPN to USM: Enjoy the BBQ - Palazzo wins friendly wager with Texas Rep.
Rep. Palazzo Debates Rep. Lee on Conference USA Championship Game
Hattiesburg American - Jim Hood’s hair helped him win election
The Big Winners on Election Day - Gunn, MS GOP and BIPEC
YP - The braintrust at Occupy Jackson - ‘We need 218 US Senates’
PPP polling in MS - Rs have big leads in Gov, Treasurer races - Voter ID should pass handliy
SOS Delbert Hosemann’s office keeping a watchful eye on absentee balloting
YallPolitics’ warning about pre-election shenanigans
Clarion Ledger Endorses Connie Moran (D) and Jim Hood (D)
You stay classy, occupiers
State Auditor issues $170K demand against Southaven mayor and former MS-1 candidate Greg Davis
The Steve Simpson story - a 4:53 video
Columbia Journalism Review features Y’allPolitics in its News Frontier Database
Head of emergency training firm Robert Graham contracted with accuses Graham of fraud
From the people who brought you AMTRAK and the post office, now comes the super long range forecast
Democratic MS House candidates caught sending identical emails about PERS
Marshand Crisler uses racial campaigning in handouts to black constituents - ‘If WE show up, WE win’
Occupy Wall Streeters complaining about theft aka “spontaneous wealth redistribution”
DNC Chair and top Obama Congressional Leader Debbie Wasserman Schultz to campaign for Dems in MS
“Occupy Mississippi” barely gathers enough in Smith Park to occupy a city bus
Entergy MS CEO Haley Fisackerly talks about Blueprint Mississippi and what it means for MS
KINGFISH - 2010 TCI (NYSE: TCI) subsidiary bankruptcy filing - Will TCI-MS one day do the same?
Clarion Ledger SERIOUSLY slants voter ID piece on Sunday
PERRY - Department of In-Justice in Noxubee
Public school teachers in Corinth use school email to push political fundraiser for Eric Powell (D)
ESPN Executives to Discuss SEC Football at Ole Miss on Friday
Andy Taggart’s last post at Clarion Ledger’s Red/Blue
Police Benevolent Assn endorses Rep. Greg Snowden (R - Meridian)
More info from Kingfish on TCI (NYSE: TCI) and their history of bankrupting subsidiaries
YouTube to launch political site
Kingfish documents TCI (NYSE: TCI) pattern of defaults on subsidiary real estate holdings
Testimony from Ed Peters, Trent Lott, Joey Langston and Steve Patterson in Dickie Scruggs case
Ole Miss’s Autumn of Discontent
CL ponders financial risk of convention center hotel deal with TCI (NYSE: TCI ) - market cap
AT&T asks court to toss Sprint, Cell South suits
National Dems pushing steep tax hikes . . . Will MS Dems support and emulate?
Pajamas Media responds to Morgan Freeman Tea Party flap
BRYANT - Mississippi Ranked No. 9 as Best State for Doing Business
Jane Genova’s article runs in HUFFPO - quotes about Kings of Tort
Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker push the “Restore the Gulf Coast Act”
MIM - ACLU & Planned Parenthood execs form new pro-abortion ‘MS for Healthy Families’
Facebook Ads Are Key To Congressman’s Gregg Harper’s Outreach
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Thursday at 9:57 am
Pension fund cut opposed
Hammer3
: What a con-incidence! The Clarion Liar, and the President of Miss. Alliance of State Employees; CWA/Local 3570 , Brenda Scott were touting the woes of Mississippi’s State workers pension program in today’s newspaper.
Thursday at 8:16 am
Pension fund cut opposed
porkchop
: The defined benefit aspect is the problem here. Ernest T, you might have done better had you invested your own money. But, you would have given up that guaranteed benefit. Private employers change all the time - but, anyone that…
Thursday at 8:02 am
Redistricting . . . we can work it out, can't we?
porkchop
: The real killer for running twice is for democrats in contentious races. Not only is the MS Democratic party in disarray in terms of its abilty to finance races, but that gives Republicans two bites at the apple to beat…
Wednesday at 11:56 pm
Pension fund cut opposed
PubMan
: Ernest T, no one wants to take anything away from you, you should be grandfathered however the taxpayers have had enough of a system that is unfair to the folks. We want accountability and a fair system, not the one…
Wednesday at 11:38 pm
Lee Yancey Endorsed by the Mississippi Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement
m2jtown
: MFIRE is a Miss. grassroots organization who supports orderly and legal immigration, and is which is working to educate voters and elected officials about the dangers associated with massive and uncontrolled illegal immigration. To learn more or join us please…
Wednesday at 11:04 pm
Pension fund cut opposed
Earnest T Bass
: Those of us that are now drawing retirement did not have an option to be in the system. If we worked for the state we paid the rate demanded of us. For that we were promised in writing a set…
Wednesday at 9:57 pm
Clarion Ledger - Deja vu? Dems pulled same thing last year.
Hammer3
: My favorite one liner for Johnny Stringer is that he is the hick from the sticks. Montrose Mississippi’s pride and joy!
Wednesday at 9:04 pm
Pension fund cut opposed
Elwood P Dowd
: The stock crash pretty much screwed up everyone else’s retirement. Why is it not fair that state workers accept their share of the pain? Whatever promises retirees have, raising the contribution levels for present employees doesn’t break it. When you…
Wednesday at 8:33 pm
Clarion Ledger - U.S. budget: Bipartisan only way
Elwood P Dowd
: If the Congress agrees on spending, we might get a 1% or 2% spending cut. If they can’t, we get 100%. So tell me again what’s the benefit of compromise?
Wednesday at 8:26 pm
CL opinion on Redistricting: Two elections a waste
Elwood P Dowd
: Usually, “stop the pointless political infighting” just means “let my side win.”
Wednesday at 7:58 pm
CL opinion on Redistricting: Two elections a waste
Contract with America
: “And it is about the 174 members of the Legislature looking out for their own political futures based on what their districts might look like.” On one side you have a group wanting to hold on to power that they…
Wednesday at 6:04 pm
Pension fund cut opposed
Howard Roark
: I’m sure there are private companies that change the rules after the fact, but most I’m familiar with, usually do some type of transition, grandfathering, etc. Point taken that it does happen, though. I’m not aware of the VA, but…
Wednesday at 5:11 pm
Pension fund cut opposed
Hammer3
: Howard, Let me be perfectly clear on several of the issues you brought up. A. “But if gov’t. is going to break its contract with current retirees (and like it or not, it’s changing the rules after the fact, not…
Wednesday at 4:55 pm
Pension fund cut opposed
Earnest T Bass
: Howard is also correct. If the state had allowed me to invest my retirement money I would be living much better now that I’m retired.
Wednesday at 4:52 pm
Pension fund cut opposed
Earnest T Bass
: Pubman I haven’t looked into it but I doubt you can use 21 years of militray service towards your state retirement. Some but I doubt that much. And if you did retire after 4 years you might get 10% of…
Wednesday at 4:37 pm
Pension fund cut opposed
Howard Roark
: Guys, I don’t understand why there’s such a fuss. All we are discussing are defined-benefits vs defined-contributions. Until the last couple decades or so, defined-benefits was the norm. In the private sector as well. The private sector has (wisely, in…
Wednesday at 2:58 pm
Barbour - House Leadership trying to spend too much
windeaces
: Typical government; instead of working for the best interest of the public they are working for the interest of a government party in trying to belittle one party in favor of another. Time for most of these self centered morons…
Wednesday at 2:57 pm
Pension fund cut opposed
Hammer3
: Earnest T; just answer a couple of simple questions. do you or have you received a cost of living increase with your pension? do you or have you received a 13th. check while drawing your state pension? is it the…
Wednesday at 2:52 pm
CL opinion on Redistricting: Two elections a waste
windeaces
: The best answer would be to send all these self serving morons home and let the public themselves present bills and let the pulblic at large decide whether it is something they want to pass or not. In today’s technology…
Wednesday at 2:41 pm
EDITORIAL: Howorth for TVA
jdaviscovington
: Right. Your last sentence from your first post had me confused.
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
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