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(VIDEO) Senator: Police have suspect in Wicker ricin mailing

Associated Press — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:32:03 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police have a suspect in mind as they investigate a letter mailed to Sen. Roger Wicker that tested positive for poisonous ricin, a Senate colleague said. “The person that is a suspect writes a lot of letters to members,” Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said Tuesday as she emerged from a classified briefing. [...]

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Former Tchula Mayor Brown has died

Associated Press — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:36:35 +0000

JACKSON — Former Tchula Mayor Yvonne R. Brown, the first black Republican female mayor in Mississippi, has died. Officials at Century Funeral Home in Yazoo City confirmed Brown died Monday but had no other details. A funeral service is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at New Jerusalem Church in Jackson. Brown served as Tchula’s mayor [...]

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Rice says wouldn’t return as secretary of state

Associated Press — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:12:12 +0000

CLINTON — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she wouldn’t want to hold that position again. >> BUSINESS BLOG Former secretary of state, KiOR board member Condoleeza Rice visits Mississippi>> “You should never go home twice,” Rice told reporters at Mississippi College in Clinton. Rice visited the school Tuesday to address benefactors at a [...]

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Bryant criminalizes Jackson Women’s Health Organization

Associated Press — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:53:50 +0000

JACKSON — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant on Monday signed a law that will put new regulations on the state’s only abortion clinic, starting July 1. The Republican said he’s not bothered by the possibility that the clinic’s owner will sue to try to block the new mandates. “If it closes that clinic, then so be [...]

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Analysis: Few get all they want at Mississippi Capitol

Associated Press — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:38:43 +0000

JACKSON — The Mississippi Legislature is moving to the end of its 2012 session, and interest groups are being reminded of a universal truth in politics: You can’t always get what you want. People who say the U.S. borders are too porous were upset when an immigration-enforcement died in a Senate committee, after passing the [...]

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FORECLOSURE SETTLEMENT — AG concedes legislators likely to decide where $14.1M goes

Ted Carter — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:01:39 +0000

Mississippi legislators will be the deciders in how to use a $14.2 million direct payment from a $25 billion national mortgage fraud settlement. Attorney General Jim Hood hopes legislators will allocate the money for such things as housing counseling, mortgage-education efforts and for programs to guide victimized homeowners through the settlement process. He concedes, however, [...]

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Marty Wiseman: Who the heck is Saul Alinsky?

Marty Wiseman — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:01:40 +0000

“Fascinating” is certainly one way to describe Newt Gingrich’s continuous invocation of the name of famed community organizer Saul Alinsky in his effort to hang a derogatory label on President Barack Obama. Given Gingrich’s penchant for shooting from the hip (lip?) when it comes to political rhetoric one or two references to Alinsky could be [...]

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Litigation timeline key for Section 42 valuation fight

Clay Chandler — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:01:37 +0000

A key hearing this week in Hinds County Chancery Court could go a long way toward changing how tax assessors calculate the tax liability for Section 42 Housing Developments. The Mississippi Association of Supervisors, the Mississippi Municipal League and dozens of towns and cities have sued the Department of Revenue, in an attempt to force [...]

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MBJ EDITORIAL: Bryant, others should concentrate on issues, not media

MBJ Staff — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:01:12 +0000

Gov. Phil Bryant was quick to lay blame at the feet of the national and statewide media for Mississippi’s poor race-relations image at the recent Mission Mississippi Governor’s Prayer Luncheon. Bryant said that the national media must have been champing at the bit to see if he, a white Republican, and Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree, [...]

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Cartoon – January 2, 2012

Ricky Nobile — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:00:11 +0000

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