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Barbour Leads Anti-Health Reform Rhetoric

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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Mississippi to End HIV Segregation in Prisons

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. read more »

Revenue Estimates Down, Barbour to Announce Budget Cuts

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… read more »

Barbour Signs Strip Club Bill

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… 2 read more »

Horne LLP Under Fire Again

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… 5 read more »

Seale Conviction Upheld Again

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… 12 read more »

ACLU Fights Prom Cancellation

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… 10 read more »

Luckett to Speak in Jackson Friday

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… read more »

Unemployment Tops 20 Percent in Four Counties

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;… read more »

Charters and Quasi-Charters

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. read more »

Banking Locally

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… 1 read more »

Lawmakers Debate Alternate Education Track

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. 5 read more »

BREAKING: Writer Barry Hannah Dies of Heart Attack

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… read more »

Veto Override Fails: Legislators Return to Negotiation

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 »

Barbour Vetoes Budget Restoration

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… read more »

Mason Says Merger Plan a Leaked ‘Idea’

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.… read more »

Black Farmers to Benefit from Obama Decision

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. read more »

Senate Votes to Restore Budget Cuts; Barbour Promises Veto

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… 3 read more »

Plan B? Flood Control Beyond Lakes and Levees

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… 3 read more »

Behind Barbour’s Prison Rhetoric

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… 2 read more »

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:: stateblog

:: coverstories

Trust In Me

by Ward Schaefer
March 10, 2010

It's bitterly cold and almost 11 p.m. when the white van stops under the highway bridge in South Jackson. Fifty yards from the road, there's a small campsite lit by the flames rising from an oil drum.… 1 read more »

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:: newsstories

Strangulation, Security and Suffrage

by Adam Lynch
March 17, 2010

Both chambers of the state Legislature spent the past week considering bills from the opposite chamber. The House amended Senate Bill 2923—a bill that expands domestic assault to include strangulation and requires a "cooling off" period between parties—to create… read more »

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:: opinioncolumns

[Editorial] ‘Good Enough’ Isn’t

March 17, 2010

Mississippi has not had a state medical examiner for the past 15 years. To fill that hole, the state has relied mainly on Dr. Steven Hayne, a decision that has often proved unwise. read more »

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:: statecomments

Mar 19, 2010
Medical 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.

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