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  • NMC - Patsy Brumfield writes about the Scruggs scandals two years on

    Patsy Brumfield writes about the Scruggs scandals two years on Patsy Brumfield has a couple of tw0-years-on thumb sucking pieces about the Scruggs scandals in the Daily Journal today. One focuses on the state bar leadership with some notes about the law school graduates of the last two years, and the [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:15pm EST

  • CL - Hope for new beer standard brewing

    Hope for new beer standard brewing To do that, though, Bailey has to hit the road, because the more "gourmet" beers have an alcohol content higher than what is permitted in Mississippi. But Bailey - founder of a grass-roots beer advocacy group, Raise Your Pints - and others like him are hoping [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:12pm EST

  • SALTER - All eyes now on the legislative budget

    SALTER - All eyes now on the legislative budget he Legislative Black Caucus came out against Barbour's university merger plan even before it hit the table officially. House Universities and Colleges Committee Chairman Kelvin Buck, D-Holly Springs, pronounced that portion of the budget plan dead-on-arrival at his committee. The state employee union's' [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:00pm EST

  • Miss. officials: No to mergers

    Miss. officials: No to mergers "Some of the things just don't work," Rep. Cecil Brown, D-Jackson, said in a meeting with Sen. Terry Burton, R-Newton, at The Clarion-Ledger's editorial board. Responding to Mississippi's continued decline in revenues, Barbour has recommended merging the state's eight public universities into five, consolidating public school districts,' [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:59pm EST

  • Read Kings of Tort reviews

    Read Kings of Tort reviews [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:57pm EST

  • SH - South Mississippians eye statewide positions

    SH - South Mississippians eye statewide positions With Gov. Haley Barbour leaving office in 2012 because of term limits and other statewide elected officials possibly seeking higher office in 2011 elections, as many as four South Mississippians might run for vacant posts. But in recent decades, only two Coastians have won Mississippi-wide [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:52pm EST

  • Tex. Blog - Barbour to enter in 2012

    Tex. Blog - Barbour to enter in 2012 Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, a longtime personal friend, was in Austin this week for a meeting of the Republican Governors Association, which he chairs. While in town, he was honored at a reception at the Barton Hills home of Cindy Barnes where he [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:48pm EST

  • GWC - Only one merger has shot of happening

    Only one merger has shot of happening Gov. Haley Barbour should withdraw his recommendation that Mississippi’s three historically black schools be merged. In the two weeks since the Republican governor unveiled his bombshell, it’s become obvious that the proposal doesn’t have a chance of actually happening. As long as the recommendation lives, [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:43pm EST

  • AP Analysis: Lawsuits pending on Miss. felons’ voting

    AP Analysis: Lawsuits pending on Miss. felons' voting Rep. Greg Snowden, R-Meridian, is one of the more vocal legislators on the issue. In a blog earlier this year in The Clarion-Ledger, Snowden said he supports disenfranchising every convicted felon, no matter the crime, while he or she remains a ward of the' [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:41pm EST

  • Huckabee gave clemency to man sought in Washington police slayings

    Huckabee gave clemency to man sought in Washington police slayings Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Clemmons, commuting his lengthy prison sentence over the protests of prosecutors. "This is the day I've been dreading for a long time," Larry Jegley, prosecuting attorney for Arkansas' Pulaski County said tonight [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:32pm EST

  • University plan may be illegal under Ayers

    University plan may be illegal under Ayers Second District U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, lead plaintiff in a lawsuit that sought to rectify inequalities between Mississippi's institutions based on race, said Barbour's proposal goes against everything the state has been trying to accomplish since agreeing to the Ayers settlement. "In the eyes of" [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:38pm EST

  • 2 plead guilty in cig case

    2 plead guilty in cig case Jerry Burke, 67, of Tupelo and Randy Benham, 43, of Cordova, Tenn., waived indictment and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge W. Allen Pepper in Greenville to carrying out a scheme to defraud federal and state governments, making false monthly tobacco reports and money laundering, [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:17pm EST

  • What’s going on with Tim Balducci?

    What's going on with Tim Balducci? Timothy Balducci, the Scruggs scandal co-defendant who turned informant, is still in the Monroe County jail, according to Monroe County Jail Administrator Danny Starks. The Federal Bureau of Prisons Web Site said Monday Balducci was not in Bureau of Prisons custody. Starks said he had no [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 3:50pm EST

  • Wicker, other GOPers, take Napolitano to task

    Wicker, other GOPers, take Napolitano to task WASHINGTON - Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and 11 Republican colleagues took issue today with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's recent remarks on immigration. Speaking to the Center for American Progress on Nov. 13, Napolitano touted the Obama administration's desire to enact a program to [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 3:49pm EST

  • Wicker - Bringing NY terrorist suspect to trial in U.S. doesn’t make sense

    Wicker - Bringing NY terrorist suspect to trial in U.S. doesn't make sense "Think of what jeopardy it puts the court officials [and jurors] in...," Wicker notes. "How would you like to be chosen a juror in a terrorist trial in civilian court and have to be watching over your shoulder'" [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 3:46pm EST

  • Ex-Gov. Mabus is ready for his closeup on ‘NCIS’

    Ex-Gov. Mabus is ready for his closeup on ‘NCIS’ The most popular television show in the country has a special guest tonight — Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, a former Mississippi governor, who has a cameo on “NCIS” at 7 p.m. on CBS. “NCIS,” which stands for Naval Criminal Investigative Service, [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 3:44pm EST

  • SLABBED - New data on Renfroe v. Rigsby

    Another one! Order of Dismissal entered following Joint Stipulation of Dismissal filed by Dick Scruggs and E.A. Renfroe Slabbed 11/23/9 [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:36pm EST

  • PETTUS - Agency mergers in Barbour’s proposal

    PETTUS - Agency mergers in Barbour's proposal On Monday, Barbour called for a 12 percent budget markdown for most agencies in his $5.5 billion budget recommendation for fiscal 2011. Some of the governor's targets include: The Department of Banking and Consumer Finance. It would fold into the secretary of state's office. The Department of [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:30pm EST

  • Barbour - “We need to treat the president respectfully”

    Barbour - "We need to treat the president respectfully" One crucial factor, governors said, is wooing independent voters who backed Mr. Obama last year but voted by about 2-to-1 margins in gubernatorial races for Robert McDonnell in Virginia and Chris Christie in New Jersey. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, chairman of the Republican [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:27pm EST

  • CL - Budget: Look at reorganization

    Budget: Look at reorganization Barbour has made his point. It is indeed shocking that the state could be facing a $715 million budget shortfall in the next fiscal year and a potential $1.2 billion hole for the 2012 fiscal year. Whatever course is taken to balance the budget will not be [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:21pm EST

  • AGNEW - Barbour taking hits for ‘11 gov candidates

    Barbour taking hits for '11 gov candidates A term-limited Gov. Haley Barbour knows he's getting politically hammered for his explosive budget proposal that landed with a thud audible from here to Plantersville. But critics need to know this: The governor doesn't care what they think. He's preparing for life outside the Mansion. [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:19pm EST

  • SH - From 2,000 to 100 school districts?

    SH - From 2,000 to 100 school districts? Considering that Mississippi once had more than 2,000 public school districts, Gov. Haley Barbour’s proposal to reduce the number from 152 down to 100 might not seem so monumental a task. Until you look back down the road consolidation has taken. The reason Mississippi had [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:14pm EST

  • AP Analysis: Barbour’s Budget Sure to Spark Activism

    Analysis: Barbour's Budget Sure to Spark Activism In releasing his budget proposal last week, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour might've tapped into his own version of economic stimulus. Call it the Lobbyist Full Employment Act of 2010. Barbour announced a wide range of ideas that immediately made people mad, and it's a safe bet' [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:12pm EST

  • Fewer lawmaker trips due to budget crisis

    Fewer lawmaker trips due to budget crisis Senate leaders have eliminated all taxpayer-funded out-of-state travel for the rest of the fiscal year. Meanwhile, the House is considering a proposal to limit its members to one out-of-state trip each this fiscal year, said House Management Committee Chair J.P. Compretta, D-Bay St. Louis. "Nothing has" [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:09pm EST

  • RightofMississippi - Luckett fumbles on unemployment

    RightofMississippi - Luckett fumbles on unemployment Bill Luckett’s campaign for governor continues bush-league mistakes. In an interview with Ole Miss student journalists he rightfully says, “Right now the biggest problem seems to be jobs.” Before you can tackle a problem, you have to have a realistic idea of that problem and [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:58pm EST

  • Wicker Rejects Administration Claim that Legalizing Illegal Immigrants will Help U.S. Economy

    Wicker Rejects Administration Claim that Legalizing Illegal Immigrants will Help U.S. Economy WASHINGTON – Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., joined with several colleagues today in rejecting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s claim that legalizing illegal immigrants will help the U.S. economy. Sec. Napolitano addressed immigration reform last Friday during a [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:50pm EST

  • Nunnelee For Congress Release - Where are the jobs?

    Nunnelee For Congress Release - Where are the jobs? Tupelo, MS… Congressman Travis Childers voted for President Obama and Nancy Pelosi’s $787 billion stimulus package saying it would create 9000 jobs in the First Congressional District. Recently he claimed it’s ‘working.’ But the number of unemployed people in North Mississippi continues [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:49pm EST

  • NYT slams Thad Cochran over Credit Card vote block

    NYT slams Thad Cochran over Credi Card vote block Congress left consumers extremely vulnerable when it gave the credit card industry as long as 15 months to end the deceptive predatory practices outlawed in the spring in the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act. The credit card industry, which clearly [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:07pm EST

  • BARBOUR wants Kay B. Hutchison to stay in D.C.

    BARBOUR wants Kay B. Hutchison to stay in D.C. CEDAR CREEK, Tex. -- Given that this year's Republican Governors Association meeting is taking place here in Texas, reporters today asked RGA Chairman Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi, to weigh in on the Rick Perry-vs.-Kay Bailey Hutchison GOP primary for Texas [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:01pm EST

  • NYT - A Tilt Away From Social Issues - GOP govs. are optimistic

    NYT - A Tilt Away From Social Issues - GOP govs. are optimistic After two bleak years, Republican governors gathered here on Thursday to assess their political future — and they liked what they saw. With 37 governors’ seats open in 2010, the party is looking to topple some big-name Democrats. What [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:00pm EST

  • UPI - Barbour: GOP govs leading party back

    UPI - Barbour: GOP govs leading party back AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi says his fellow governors are "leading the comeback" of the Republican Party. Barbour spoke at a news conference Wednesday as the Republican Governors Association began a conference in Austin, Texas, The Washington Post [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:58pm EST

  • Republican Governors Warn on Costs to States

    Republican Governors Warn on Costs to States There is one group of elected officials who are decidedly unhappy with the health care proposal unveiled by the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada — Republican governors. The governors, assembled here for a meeting of the Republican Governors Association, denounced the bill on [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:56pm EST

  • Harper aide says Democratic policies hurtful to U.S. families

    Harper aide says Democratic policies hurtful to U.S. families Evan Gardner, a field representative for 3rd Congressional District Rep. Gregg Harper, R-Pearl, conveyed the congressman's views on health care legislation, cap and trade legislation and President Barack Obama's deficit spending Wednesday morning to a small crowd at the Brookhaven-Lincoln County Chamber [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:53pm EST

  • Ole Miss student interviews Luckett, Mayo and Ole Miss prof. Cy Rosenblatt about Luckett’s chances

    Ole Miss student interviews Luckett, Mayo and Ole Miss prof. Cy Rosenblatt about Luckett's chances http://www.jour480.wordpress.com 11/20/9 [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:48pm EST

  • PERRY - Grisham’s latest is nice if you’re sick of the non-fiction Grisham that’s unfolded here

    PERRY - Grisham's latest is nice if you're sick of the non-fiction Grisham that's unfolded here The FBI raids the office of a billionaire trial lawyer who brought down Big Tobacco after flipping a cohort in a judicial bribery scheme. His own defense lawyer turns against him when a former district' [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:39pm EST

  • MINOR - Barbour headed down a dead-end with university consolidation

    MINOR - Barbour headed down a dead-end with university consolidation As Haley Barbour tries to consolidate the state’s eight universities into five, he’s headed down a dead-end road. For starters, a governor or Legislature tampering with the eight established institutions of high learning – three of them traditionally black and five predominantly [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:35pm EST

  • Travis Childers in a commercial as a Dem. who voted no

    Travis Childers in a commercial as a Dem. who voted no Showing new signs of life after the embarrassing debacle in New York's 23rd Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions and the National Republican Congressional Committee are already pounding some senior Democrats whose vote in favor of Nancy Pelosi's healthcare package [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:32pm EST

  • MSGOP Chairman Brad White Responds to Jamie Frank’s Comments on Budget

    Jackson, Miss. – Republican Party Chairman Brad White issued the following statement today on the remarks made by Democratic Party Chairman Jamie Franks regarding Governor Haley Barbour’s budget recommendations: “Jamie Franks shows us the difference between big government, big spending Democrats and the prudent reforms presented by Governor Haley Barbour.” [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:38pm EST

  • Community colleges booming in Mississippi

    Community colleges booming in Mississippi CLARKSDALE – “Community colleges are booming and busting at the seams; we are not only key to progress of Mississippi but the survival of Mississippi,” Dr. Eric Clark told educators and officials here Wednesday. Speaking at a legislative luncheon hosted by Coahoma and Mississippi Delta Community Colleges, [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:01pm EST

  • MS Dems respond to Governor Barbour’s ideas

    Chairman Franks responds to Gov. Barbour's budget JACKSON - Chairman Jamie Franks released the following statements regarding Gov. Haley Barbour’s budget recommendations. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS “The governor has touted his ability to bring new jobs to Mississippi, but under his administration Mississippi is facing the worst economic downturn most of us have seen.” “Instead [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:01pm EST

  • More cuts proposed for Mississippi’s 2-year colleges

    More cuts proposed for Mississippi's 2-year colleges It looks like our state's two-year colleges aren't beyond the reach of Governor Haley Barbour's budget axe. Mississippi's community college system has already had to trim 5 percent in the middle of the current budget year, and Hinds Community College President Dr. Clyde Muse says' [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:58pm EST

  • AP - Miss. Governor’s Mansion gets nearly $50K touchup

    AP - Miss. Governor's Mansion gets nearly $50K touchup NASCAR fans are helping the Mississippi Governor's Mansion get a small facelift. The state is spending $49,675 for a private contracting crew to repaint the four front columns and to do other maintenance work on the porch. That's almost as much as the [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:57pm EST

  • WLOX - ‘It’s going to affect everybody personally,’ warn lawmakers about future budget cuts

    WLOX - 'It's going to affect everybody personally,' warn lawmakers about future budget cuts LONG BEACH, MS (WLOX) – "It is a grim reality. And the face of government, the shape of government I believe, is going to have to change if we're going to survive," said Sen. Billy Hewes. Senator Hewes' [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:55pm EST

  • PUFFINGTON - Haley Barbour mention for 2012 GOP nod through enviro-lens

    Will the GOP Nominate a Climate Change Denier in 2012? In the early stages of the race for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2012, eight names are mentioned most frequently: Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour, Bobby Jindal and Dick Cheney. Of these eight early contenders, [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:08pm EST

  • RGA meet in Austin

    RGA meet in Austin n a conference call yesterday previewing this week's two-day Republican Governors Association meeting in Austin, RGA Chairman Haley Barbour (also the governor of Mississippi) said the purpose of the meeting was "to celebrate and build on the successes in New Jersey and Virginia this month," but more [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:50pm EST

  • Maj. in Miss. - The Interesting Lack of Response From Democrats

    Maj. in Miss. - The Interesting Lack of Response From Democrats Most of the Clarion-Ledger’s stories regarding Haley Barbour FY 2011 budget outline have focused on reactions from people who stand to have an alma mater affected by mergers, and there reactions are predictable (and understandable). Most Americans suffer from NIMBY [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:48pm EST

  • MID Stresses Reviewing Coverage During 2009 Medicare Open Enrollment

    MID Stresses Reviewing Coverage During 2009 Medicare Open Enrollment Jackson - The Social Security Administration has announced those receiving Social Security benefits will not be getting cost-of-living-adjustments in the coming year. Commissioner of Insurance Mike Chaney announced today that Mississippi senior citizens and Medicare recipients should be aware of the coverage in their policies during [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:46pm EST

  • Advance Mississippi Releases Issue Brief on Nuclear Energy

    Advance Mississippi Releases Issue Brief on Nuclear Energy JACKSON – Today, Advance Mississippi released its latest issue brief, which provides an in-depth look at nuclear energy. The brief, entitled “Nuclear Energy: An Overview,” reports on the current state of nuclear energy and discussed the economic and environmental benefits of the power [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:26pm EST

  • CL - 79 of 82 counties declared disaster

    79 of 82 counties declared disaster The Department of Agriculture designated 79 of the state's 82 counties natural disaster areas, opening the doors for farmers to apply for federal assistance programs. Farmers in three other counties - Kemper, Neshoba and Newton - also will be able to apply for assistance because [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:12pm EST

  • DISPATCH - MUW merger plan: State wouldn’t see savings until 2012

    DISPATCH - MUW merger plan: State wouldn’t see savings until 2012 Merging Mississippi University for Women with Mississippi State University in 2011 will save $35 million ... in 2012. As expected, Gov. Haley Barbour recommended in his Monday budget proposal the two state universities be merged to save on administrative costs. He also [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:10pm EST
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