Mississippi Business Journal » Barksdale Reading Institute http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Chaney calls healthcare reform communism http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/11/12/chaney-calls-healthcare-reform-communism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chaney-calls-healthcare-reform-communism http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/11/12/chaney-calls-healthcare-reform-communism/#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:27:35 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=33112 OLIVE BRANCH — Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says some parts of the federal healthcare overhaul won’t work because they came from “pure socialist-communist ideas.” The Republican’s comments came Nov. 10 during a speech to the Olive Branch Chamber of Commerce. The Commercial Appeal reports that Chaney said he and his staff are sorting through [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/11/12/chaney-calls-healthcare-reform-communism/feed/ 0 Barksdale offers to pay for principals http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/02/10/barksdale-offers-to-pay-for-principals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=barksdale-offers-to-pay-for-principals http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/02/10/barksdale-offers-to-pay-for-principals/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:38:49 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=18974 ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Four Mississippi school districts have accepted an offer from the Barksdale Reading Institute to search the nation for “top-notch” elementary school principals and pay their salaries. Claiborne Barksdale is director of the institute that was created with a $100-million donation by former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale in 2000. He says hiring principals [...]

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