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Snobbery shows in attack on PBS
By BILL MINOR
Wed,03/09/05-11:00PM , 107 Reads
JACKSON - Mississippians should be outraged by nationally syndicated columnist George F. Will calling the Public Broadcasting Service a "preposterous relic" that should no longer get its small federal subsidy, shrinking though it has been in recent years.
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Think 150 school districts are too many?
By BILL MINOR
Wed,03/02/05-11:00PM , 124 Reads
JACKSON - Republican state Sen. Billy Hewes of Gulfport did a gutsy thing a couple of weeks ago. He got a floor vote on his measure consolidating administration of Harrison County's five school districts.
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State knows Ebbers' lawyer
By BILL MINOR
Wed,02/23/05-11:00PM , 171 Reads
JACKSON - Oddly, Reid Weingarten, the lawyer for former WorldCom chief executive Bernie Ebbers in the $11 billion fraud that brought down the Mississippi-based telecommunications company, twice before was the prime litigator in cases involving high-profile Mississippians.
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Barbour picking wrong fight
By BILL MINOR
Wed,02/16/05-11:00PM , 37 Reads
JACKSON - Haley Barbour, formerly Big Tobacco's highly paid Washington lobbyist, may find that picking a fight with ex-Attorney General Mike Moore, who made the cigarette giants pay dearly for damaging Mississippians' lungs, could be, as they say on cig packs, hazardous to Barbour's political health.
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