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  • Nunnelee - Amputate the partisanship from health care debate

    —Yall Politics

    Amputate the partisanship from health care debate As a candidate for the 1st District of Mississippi, I am disappointed and frustrated with Washington insiders who are trying to impose a massive health care bill that the American people do not want. However, the Democrat leadership in Congress will once again attempt [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 9:51pm EDT

  • Childers to vote no on health care

    —Yall Politics

    Congressman Childers Releases Statement on Upcoming Health Care Reform Vote Supports Reform, But Will Vote “No” Due to Cost to Mississippi Taxpayers, Federal Funding of Abortion, Not Tough Enough on Insurance Companies Washington, DC – Congressman Travis Childers (MS-01) released the following statement regarding his upcoming vote on health care [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 9:41pm EDT

  • Hood - New Law Makes Criminals Pay for Investigative Costs

    —Yall Politics

    New Law Makes Criminals Pay for Investigative Costs March 18, 2010 Contact Jan Schaefer Public Information Officer 601-359-2002 jscha@ago.state.ms.us Jackson, Miss,- Criminals convicted of a felony can now be ordered to reimburse the investigating agency under a new law that Attorney General Jim Hood called "a milestone for law enforcement." House Bill 733 allows a court to impose an [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 7:20pm EDT

  • HCR: the big one?

    —State Street Posts

    From The Associated Press: Dems sweeten health bill, set showdown Sunday vote: Historic health care change in the balance, Democrats plowed fresh billions into insurance subsidies for consumers on Thursday and added a $250 rebate for seniors facing high prescription drugs, last-minute sweeteners to...

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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 5:39pm EDT

  • XGR: planning ahead

    —State Street Posts

    HT @tbroonline... NEMS360.com: "Many Mississippi Capitol watchers are speculating that special sessions might be called to re-authorize the Department of Employment Security, which has yet to be re-authorized by the Legislature, or to deal with a budget if the Legislature is unable to reach...

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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 4:42pm EDT

  • Henry Ross - The Senate Version: The Last Step to Government Run Healthcare

    —Yall Politics

    The Senate Version – The Last Step to Government Run Healthcare Our Representative in Washington claims to be conservative. But he’s voted for the most liberal Speaker in the history of the U.S. House and voted for two big government stimulus bills that have failed to keep unemployment below 9.7 percent. [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 3:17pm EDT

  • BILL MINOR - Proposed lignite plant generates wide controversy

    —Yall Politics

    BILL MINOR: Proposed lignite plant generates wide controversy JACKSON – Few people probably even knew Mississippi had a strata of low-grade soft brown coal called lignite. Long ignored as a cheap fuel, lignite has taken center stage of a proposed $2.4 billion advanced type of electric generating plant that has triggered [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 3:14pm EDT

  • WKRG - Barbour Blasts Northrop Grumman

    —Yall Politics

    WKRG - Barbour Blasts Northrop Grumman JACKSON, Mississippi - During a press conference in which he announced an additional $41 million cut in the state budget, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is asked about Northrop Grumman's decision not to bid on the multi-billion dollar contract to build refueling tankers for the Air [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 3:11pm EDT

  • PERRY - Business turns grassroots

    —Yall Politics

    PERRY/Business turns grassroots Mississippi's voice for business policy conducted its 30th Anniversary Membership Meeting on March 11 in Jackson featuring six statewide elected officials and hosting a number of legislators. BIPEC (Business and Industry Political Education Committee) invited all state legislators, but most of the lawmakers present tended to be Republicans [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 3:09pm EDT

  • Desoto Times - DeSoto senators split on education funds

    —Yall Politics

    DeSoto senators split on education funds Gov. Haley Barbour issued another round of budget cuts Wednesday as a result of the state Senate's approval of an extra $30 million in funding for education. Barbour announced in Jackson Wednesday an additional $19.16 million in cuts to K-12 education and $190,671 in cutbacks to [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 3:08pm EDT

  • Henry Ross - Call Congressman Childers Today!

    —Yall Politics

    Call Congressman Childers Today! The future of our country is more important than any party’s political agenda. I am asking you to contact your Representative in Washington and pressure him to vote against the healthcare measure in any and all forms. There is no time to waste. Some accounts show [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 2:50pm EDT

  • YP EXCLUSIVE - First polling in MS-01

    —Yall Politics

    This one's gonna be interesting by Alan LangeThe award winning YallPolitics Polling Interpretation Division has read polling results from an independent group polling on the current state of affairs in Mississippi's First Congressional District. Here's basically what it says. - Rep. Travis Childers name ID in the poll was in the high [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 2:08pm EDT

  • Childers Expected To Oppose Healthcare Bill

    —Majority In Mississippi

    Number of comments: 3
    Per Capitol News Connection: Congressman Travis Childers’ support is crucial to get health care legislation through Congress. However, it seems unlikely Democrats will get his backing. Democratic leaders have turned up the heat on wavering Democrats to win them over. Despite pressure, Congressman Childers – who is up for re-election this year [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 2:00pm EDT
    by Brett

  • CBO's health bill outlook: $940B over 10.

    —State Street Posts

    Congressional Budget Office releases health bill estimates - Patrick O'Connor and Carrie Budoff Brown - POLITICO.com: "The Democratic health care bill would cost $940 billion over 10 years and cut the federal deficit over the next two decades — figures that should help ease the worries of fiscal...

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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 1:29pm EDT

  • Jackson Police Battling Burglaries

    —JFP: Noise

    by Ward Schaefer March 18, 2010 Jackson police reported 226 crimes last week, up from 177 the previous week, according to crime statistics released at a Jackson Police Department command staff meeting this morning. Officers reported 190 property crimes, up from 144 the previous week, and 36 violent crimes, a slight increase [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 1:20pm EDT

  • JFP Person of the Day: Keisha Varnell

    —JFP: Noise

    by Lacey McLaughlin March 18, 2010 When Keisha Varnell walks down the hallways of Lanier High School, she remembers what it was like to face peer pressure but admits today's students have it a lot harder. "The issues now are so much more intense and severe," Varnell says. "When I" [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 12:35pm EDT

  • Healthcare Polling and Mississippi

    —Majority In Mississippi

    Number of comments: 2
    While some healthcare polling has been done on a state or even Congressional district level, we have seen nothing in Mississippi which should not be too surprising. That said, I looked at some national polls and we’ll try to relate them to the Magnolia State. First, here is the Real Clear [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 10:00am EDT
    by Brett

  • Mississippi to End HIV Segregation in Prisons

    —JFP: Noise

    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 . Mississippi currently houses 152 HIV-positive prisoners in a segregated unit in Parchman. [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 9:49am EDT

  • Disappointing Rosalie

    —The Natchez Blog

    Number of comments: 0
    I had the most beautiful time in Natchez the other week, and top of my list of things to do was to visit my favorite antebellum home there, Rosalie. I saw it so many times as a child then in my adulthood -- everytime I went to Natchez after I [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 9:46am EDT
    by Elizabeth

  • Disappointing Rosalie

    —The Natchez Blog

    I had the most beautiful time in Natchez the other week, and top of my list of things to do was to visit my favorite antebellum home there, Rosalie. I saw it so many times as a child then in my adulthood -- everytime I went to Natchez after I [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 9:46am EDT

  • Lawmakers Struggle To Finish Health Overhaul Bill : NPR

    —State Street Posts

    From AP via NPR: Pushing toward a history-making vote, Democrats struggled to eliminate lingering complications standing in the way of House action this weekend on President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul. Their drive to change the way health care is administered and extend...

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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 8:18am EDT

  • Alex Chilton, RIP

    —State Street Posts

    Alex Chilton’s Legacy Lives On In R.E.M., The Replacements � MTV Newsroom: "The music world lost one of its true greats on Wednesday (March 17) as Alex Chilton, the mastermind of Big Star and an inspiration for most of the alternative rock revolution, died of a heart attack. He was" [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 8:08am EDT

  • Baier and Obama: the diss fest

    —State Street Posts

    Obama appears on Fox News, long White House target | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger: "President Barack Obama on Wednesday took to the Fox News Channel, derided by his White House as a wing of the Republican Party, to sell his embattled health care overhaul in an interview punctuated with...
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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 7:59am EDT

  • No pork-busting from Cochran or Wicker

    —State Street Posts

    Mississippi Senators Vote To Keep Earmark Spending | Mississippi Public Broadcasting: The U.S. Senate has decided to vote down a proposed earmark spending ban. MPB’s Phoebe Judge reports on the reaction from two of the greatest users of earmark spending, Mississippi’s own U.S. Senators.

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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 7:53am EDT

  • XGR: revenue falls, cuts increase

    —State Street Posts

    NEMS360.com: "Gov. Haley Barbour made an additional $41 million in budget cuts Wednesday, and the likelihood of another budget stalemate intensified when House and Senate leaders sparred over how much to reduce the revenue projections for the current fiscal year and the next. Barbour’s action...

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    Posted: March 18, 2010, 7:50am EDT

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