The Meridian Star has filed a complaint with the Mississippi Ethics Commission alleging Lauderdale County Supervisors violated the state’s open meetings law. Again.
Writes the Star editorial board in a recent editorial: “Here we are again, asking the Lauderdale County Board of Supervisors to stop breaking the State’s Open Meetings Act.”
What makes this particularly galling is that supervisors, who initially denied the charge, are actually caught on tape this time.
Majority in Mississippi, a Republican blog, is keeping score of newspaper endorsements in down-to-the-wire Congressional races. So far, First Congressional District incumbent Travis Childers has picked up two.
Billy Crews, chief executive officer of Daily Journal parent Journal Inc., will resign his position with the company to become the chief operating officer of the Tupelo Public School District.
Crews was named to fill the newly created position during the district’s school board meeting on Tuesday. He will begin in his new role on Jan. 1.
In “The Fall of the House of Zeus,” veteran newspaper reporter and Ole Miss professor Curtis Wilkie tells a real-life story that reads like a John Grisham novel. Dickie Scruggs, a prominent Mississippi trial lawyer who made millions suing Big Tobacco and was portrayed in the film “The Insider,” is arrested for conspiring to bribe a judge. So begins an epic tale of backbiting, shady deal-making and greed, all played out against a deep South setting.
One day after video that supposedly shows Lauderdale County supervisors discussing public business in a closed session disappeared from the county’s website, supervisors are offering slightly different accounts of what happened during that meeting.
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He’s a former managing editor of The Jackson Advocate.
Deadspin broke the Brett Favre story. But it took the NFL to get it into traditional media outlets.
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