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Keeping Our Eye On Kamel King

Stephen McDill — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:16:10 +0000

Age: 33 Entertainment Attorney, Frascogna & Courtney Law Firm You could literally say that Kamel King was born into the entertainment industry. The son of a James Brown promoter, Kamel King grew up behind-the-scenes of the music industry, a business that King calls a “living, breathing and evolving creature.” “Even in my off time, I surround [...]

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Analysis: 2012 not stressful for incumbents

Emily W. Pettus — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 06:01:06 +0000

This is a comfortable election year to be a sitting U.S. representative, U.S. senator or appellate judge in Mississippi. Incumbents have raised far more campaign cash than challengers, adding to their built-in advantage of name recognition. Judicial candidates are extremely limited in what they’re allowed to say, so it’s tough for a challenger to pick [...]

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Refuge expansion proposal causing panic

Clay Chandler — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 06:01:10 +0000

The version of the 2012 Farm Bill that passed a House Committee earlier in July did not include an amendment that would have expanded Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge’s acquisition boundary by 48,000 acres. The issue has been given new life, though, by Second District Congressman Bennie Thompson. The panic over the possibility of private [...]

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Ricky Nobile – June 11, 2012

Ricky Nobile — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 06:01:14 +0000

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BREAKING NEWS: Brent Christensen named new head of the Mississippi Development Authority

MBJ Staff — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:56:17 +0000

JACKSON — Brent Christensen has been named the new head of the Mississippi Development Authority. Gov. Phil Bryant made the announcement during a press conference at the Marriot Hotel in downtown Jackson. Christensen, who has been the CEO of the Gainesville (Fla.) Area Chamber of Commerce the last 10 years, replaces interim director Jim Barksdale, the [...]

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Q&A EXTRA: Bennie Thompson: Politics is politics; I do plan to run for reelection

Amy McCullough — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 06:00:38 +0000

Congressman Bennie Thompson has represented Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District since 1993. Thompson was chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee from 2006 through 2010, when Democrats held the majority. With Republicans now in the majority, he’s the committee’s ranking Democrat. A lifelong Bolton resident, Thompson earned degrees from Tougaloo College and Jackson State University. He [...]

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The run for the mansion

Lynn Lofton — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 06:00:49 +0000

Bryant the expected front-runner going into election season With statewide elections taking place next year and the present governor prohibited from seeking re-election again, speculation is growing about who the new occupant of the Governor’s Mansion will be. Candidates for both parties’ primaries began fund raising and campaigning early for the state’s top spot. Long-time [...]

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Honorable Mention: Pro-Business wants go unheard by State’s voters

Clay Chandler — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 06:00:39 +0000

National wave of anti-everything swept through Mississippi Unless your name was Bennie Thompson, November’s midterm elections in Mississippi were a bad time to be a Democratic incumbent. First District Rep. Travis Childers, D-Booneville, lost after serving only one term. Gene Taylor, D-Bay St. Louis, lost after having represented the Fourth District for more than 20 years. [...]

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Business support can’t overcome voter anger

Clay Chandler — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 06:00:37 +0000

Taylor, Childers beaten despite significant campaign money from business interests Among the winners of last week’s midterm elections in Mississippi were new Republican congressmen Alan Nunnelee and Steven Palazzo. Butler Snow had a pretty good election, too, but not because of incumbent fatigue. The Ridgeland-based law firm used the campaign finance market saturation model to [...]

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2 Miss. House Democrats unseated

Associated Press — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:31:37 +0000

JACKSON — Mississippi rarely kicks incumbents out of Congress. On Tuesday, voters defeated two of the state’s four U.S. House members – conservative Blue Dog Democrats caught in a wave of voter discontent with Washington. Republican Steven Palazzo, a state representative from Biloxi, unseated 21-year Democratic incumbent Gene Taylor of Bay St. Louis in the [...]

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