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  • Rep. Travis Childers speaks to NEA event

    —Yall Politics

    Dr. Seuss's birthday celebrated with Green Eggs and Ham March 2, 1998 the National Education Association (NEA) commemorated the calendar day Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in an effort to observe the subject of reading. According to the NEA, 45 million adults and children alike participated in Read Across America 2010 [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 6:10pm EDT

  • Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant announces LBC meeting for Wednesday 3/17

    —Yall Politics

    JOINT LEGISLATIVE BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING WEDNESDAY JACKSON - Lt. Governor Phil Bryant, Chairman of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, has called a meeting of the Committee for 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. The Joint Legislative Budget Committee will hear a report from the Revenue Estimating Group regarding possible revisions to [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 6:06pm EDT

  • Alan Nunnelee campaign update for MS-01

    —Yall Politics

    "Nunnelee appears to be the real deal" The Washington Post ranked MS-01 as the 11th most likely House race to switch parties in 2010. To read more go to http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/the-line/four-days-in-may.html Campaign Update Our race is in full swing and I can feel the momentum building. One of the most [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 4:31pm EDT

  • CL - Pickering recoups more than $3.6M in last 2 years

    —Yall Politics

    CL - Pickering recoups more than $3.6M in last 2 years When State Auditor Stacey Pickering took office in January 2008, there were 184 open cases. Since then, the agency has opened 189 more. Apparently there is a lot of corruption in public office, said Tougaloo College political science professor Steve Rozman. During [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 3:10pm EDT

  • Eddie Fair Requests Pay Raises; Supes Deny

    —JFP: Noise

    With budget concerns in mind, the Hinds County Board of Supervisors denied pay raises requested by county Tax Collector Eddie Fair in a meeting this morning, while approving the hiring of another county position. [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 2:10pm EDT

  • JFP Person of the Day: Evelyn Gandy

    —JFP: Noise

    by Lacey McLaughlin March 15, 2010 When Rep. Alyce Clarke, D-Jackson, considered running as the state's first female African American representative in the late 1980s, she received encouragement and advice from Evelyn Gandy. [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 1:45pm EDT

  • Engineers Want Lower Lake Plan on Table

    —JFP: Noise

    by Adam Lynch March 15, 2010 An engineer urged the Rankin-Hinds Pearl River Flood and Drainage Control District Levee Board last week to press the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to approve a lake plan to coincide with a Corps-preferred levee expansion the board approved in December. [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 1:00pm EDT

  • Community Events and Public Meetings

    —JFP: Noise

    by Latasha Willis March 15, 2010 8:30 a.m., , at River Room Conference Center (100 Ridge Drive, Flowood). The Mississippi Development Authority will host a conference to explain opportunities for Mississippi-based certified minority contractors associated with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Registration is required. Free; call [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 12:00pm EDT

  • XGR: on solar

    —State Street Posts

    Mississippi Works to Attract Solar Panel Manufacturing Plant | Mississippi Public Broadcasting: "Mississippi's House of Representatives last week passed a 50 million dollar bond issue to attract a solar panel manufacturing company to the state. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Percy Watson...

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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 11:42am EDT

  • Health Care in a Free Society

    —Free Citizen

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    "... I see health care reform of the kind promoted by the Obama administration and congressional leaders as part of a crusade against the American idea."

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    by Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin)

    Someone once [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 10:42am EDT
    by Steve Rankin

  • Seale Conviction Upheld Again

    —JFP: Noise

    March 15, 2010 Also see: JFP 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 Klux Klan member's 2007 conviction for kidnapping and conspiracy in the [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 9:38am EDT

  • Adam's Project

    —Jackson Jambalaya





    Some special people are trying to create a playground for special needs kids in Ridgeland. WLBT broadcast a nice story about the Easter Egg hunt they had Saturday. I posted the proposed design for the playground. If interested [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 9:17am EDT

  • Hinds Officials Seeking Pay Raises

    —JFP: Noise

    by Ward Schaefer March 15, 2010 Two Hinds County officials are requesting salary increases for selected employees, despite a tight county budget. Tax Collector Eddie Fair and County Attorney Sherri Flowers are scheduled to request the raises for their employees at this morning's meeting of the Hinds County Board of Supervisors. [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 9:00am EDT

  • XGR: on "double-dipping"

    —State Street Posts

    PERS: A bit less self-congratulations? | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger: "The Legislature is patting itself on the back as it seeks resolution on legislation to prevent 'double dipping' by state employees who retire and then return to work as part-time or contract workers for the...

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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 7:00am EDT

  • Iraq: "Everybody's home"

    —State Street Posts

    McComb battalion head: Everybody's home from Iraq - Military - SunHerald.com: "They were the words that nearly 1,200 soldiers in the McComb-based National Guard battalion and their families and friends have been waiting to hear: 'Everybody's home.' Lt. Col. Jeff Van said Saturday that the last of...

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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 6:58am EDT

  • Sun Herald slams Blackmon for killing open meeting bill

    —Yall Politics

    Sun Herald slams Blackmon for killing open meeting bill Blackmon has been citing various objections to the legislation for weeks. He thought imposing larger fines on ill-advised officials was “a sledgehammer” approach. Especially since some of those officials may be ill-advised by Blackmon, whose law firm represents the city of Canton. On [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 5:15am EDT

  • GWC - Lawmakers nibble at pension problems

    —Yall Politics

    Lawmakers nibble at pension problems Mississippi lawmakers want to cut down on state employees who are double-dipping — drawing a state retirement while continuing to be paid either as contract or part-time workers. The practice, say advocates of the change, has gotten more prevalent during the budget pinch, as state agencies try [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 5:12am EDT

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