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by Adam Lynch
March 19, 2010
Gov. Haley Barbour and other opponents of health-care reform are making final efforts to derail an upcoming House vote on the Senate health-care package this Sunday.
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March 18, 2010
State Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps announced yesterday that Mississippi will end its practice of separating male HIV-positive prisoners from other inmates beginning in May, reports WDAM. Mississippi currently houses 152 HIV-positive prisoners in a segregated unit in Parchman.
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 by Ward Schaefer
March 17, 2010
With newly revised revenue estimates projecting a slow recovery for the state economy, Gov. Haley Barbour is preparing to cut an additional $41 million from the state budget for this fiscal year. The Mississippi Legislature's joint budget committee today adopted…
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 by Adam Lynch
March 17, 2010
Gov. Haley Barbour signed a bill on March 15 giving rural counties authority to regulate strip clubs. House Bill 170 demands supervisors publish and post notice of any proposed ordinance change impacting strip clubs at least 20 days…
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 by Adam Lynch
March 16, 2010
Jackson accounting firm Horne LLP faces criticism for the second time in two months after a Feb. 18 audit by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General reported that the company billed Mississippi Emergency Management Agency…
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 March 15, 2010
Also see: JFP investigative archive/timeline of Dee-Moore case
James Ford Seale's latest appeal has fallen on at least a couple of deaf ears. Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans upheld the reputed Ku…
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 by Adam Lynch
To help protect teen Constance McMillen's decision to bring her girlfriend to the prom, the Mississippi ACLU will file an injunction next week to prevent the Itawamba County School District from canceling the school's prom. The district's school board announced the cancellation of the…
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 by Ward Schaefer
March 11, 2010
Clarksdale attorney and 2011 candidate for governor Bill Luckett will speak at Koinonia Coffee House in Jackson Friday morning. Luckett, who announced his candidacy in September, is the featured speaker at the 9 a.m. Friday Forum, a weekly series sponsored…
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 March 11, 2010
Nearly 155,000 Mississippians received unemployment benefits in January, with the state's unemployment rate for the first month of 2010 exceeding the national average. Four counties reported jobless rates in excess of 20 percent: Holmes and Noxubee counties both reported rates of 23.1 percent unemployment;…
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by Ward Schaefer
March 10, 2010
The Mississippi Legislature's wrangling over charter schools intensified yesterday when the House of Representatives passed a bill that would authorize "innovative schools" but voted down a provision for actual charter schools.
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 by Jesse Crow
March 10, 2010
Joe Magee, 59, is a third-generation poultry and cattle farmer. His farm, located just outside Mendenhall, produces a little more than half a million chickens and around 100 head of beef cattle a year. Magee operates the farm with the…
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March 8, 2010
General classroom goals for high-school students, in Mississippi and elsewhere, emphasize pushing kids toward four-year college degrees. Some Magnolia state lawmakers are now looking at introducing a career-track curriculum for the many teens who may not be college bound, reports The Sun Herald.
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 March 1, 2010
The Jackson Free Press has learned from sources in Oxford, Miss., that author Barry Hannah, 67, died of a sudden heart attack in his home there today. He was working with a graduate student, sources say. Hannah was born in Meridian, Miss., and raised…
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 by Adam Lynch
February 25, 2010
The Senate failed to override Gov. Haley Barbour's veto of budget reconciliation act this morning, and opponents of the veto now argue that the state should put to use $36 million from savings accrued through a federal stimulus program. read more »
 by Adam Lynch
February 24, 2010
Gov. Haley Barbour vetoed budget reconciliation act Senate Bill 2688 today, a bill that restored $79 million in cuts he enacted for Fiscal Year 2011. The governor rejected the bill saying that it delayed "inevitable government reorganization and…
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 by Lacey McLaughlin
February 19, 2010
As Jackson State University President Ronald Mason Jr. shook hands at a forum this morning at Koinonia Coffee House in Jackson, he sought to quell concerns about a possible HBCU merger idea he floated to legislators last month.…
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by Adam Lynch
February 19, 2010
About 24,000 Mississippi black farmers could benefit from a decision by the Obama administration to include a $1.25 billion discrimination settlement in the 2010 federal budget.
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by Adam Lynch
February 18, 2010
Gov. Haley Barbour claims he will veto a bill the Mississippi Senate passed today that would restore funding to offset cuts he made to state agencies. "This bill spends too much, burns too much of our reserves, and…
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 by Adam Lynch
February 17, 2010
Part 2 in a Series
Flood-control options for the Pearl River seem limited as Jackson-area residents compare the ungainly design of the levee plan designed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1996 with the…
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by Ward Schaefer
February 17, 2010
To hear Gov. Haley Barbour tell it, if he doesn't get his way, the state's fiscal crisis could force thousands of felons out of jail and into communities. Since his Jan. 13 State of the State address, Barbour…
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:: statecomments
Mar 19, 2010Medical Examiner Bill Sent To Barbour
jbreland: Then again, if we can't put innocent people in prison, what will the Innocence Project do with their time? Lets thank Hood for keeping this project alive.
Mar 19, 2010
City Works to Cover $2.3 Million Shortfall
jbreland: Yeah. As long as you don't crash into a pothole on your way to the links, you'll be fine.
Mar 19, 2010
Bill Adds Teeth to Stalking Law
jbreland: Neat.
What did he say about despicable forensic pathologists? What is Payne's commission? Does he get an extra percentage if the client is found guilty?
Mar 19, 2010
Seale Conviction Upheld Again
Mark Geoffriau: Fair enough. Perhaps the difference here is really that we find different values to be most important in our Supreme Court Justices -- I'm not terribly concerned with appointing Justices ...
Mar 19, 2010
Seale Conviction Upheld Again
Brian C Johnson: I did not regard it as a personal insult, and your point on the limited importance of asking questions during oral arguments is well taken. But we are hardly the first to make the argument ...
Mar 19, 2010
One Lake Instead of Two?
Aeroscout: A former city planner wanted the city to buy up the riparian lands and use it for recreation...NE residents are very fearful of public access on the river. Marginal lands or wetlands are prime ...
Mar 19, 2010
Seale Conviction Upheld Again
Mark Geoffriau: 'scuse me? I'm sorry if you read "without knowldge" as some kind of personal insult -- it was not intended as such -- I am without that same knowledge, as is anyone not privy to the secret ...
Mar 18, 2010
Seale Conviction Upheld Again
Brian C Johnson: You're pretty quick with accusations of ignorance considering that you don't seem to understand the difference between deliberations and oral arguments.
Mar 18, 2010
City Works to Cover $2.3 Million Shortfall
darren: I think that tennis courts and golf courses *are* essential quality of life services.
Mar 18, 2010
Seale Conviction Upheld Again
WMartin: The internets is so awesome.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/opinions.html