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• Nunnelee For Congress Release - Where are the jobs?

  —Yall Politics

  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 [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:49pm EST
  

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• Luckett fumbles on unemployment

  —Right of Mississippi

  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 Luckett’s campaign is never going to [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:33am EST
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• Poll confirms: American bosses blow

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  H/T @carlie_kollath Survey: U.S. workers set to seek new jobs in 2010 | U.S. | Reuters: "Nearly two-thirds of U.S. workers intend to look for new jobs next year, according to a poll released on...
  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:14pm EST
  

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• MS Dems respond to Governor Barbour’s ideas

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  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 [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:01pm EST
  

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• Wicker: With $12 Trillion Debt & Record Job Losses, U.S. Can’t Afford Democrats’ Health Care Pla

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  Wicker: With $12 Trillion Debt & Record Job Losses, U.S. Can’t Afford Democrats’ Health Care Plan WASHINGTON – As the national debt today reached an all-time high of $12 trillion, U.S. Senator Roger Wicker released the following statement on health care spending and reform proposals being considered in Congress: “Today, our [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:54pm EST
  

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• Human Error Blamed for Crediting New Stimulus Jobs to Nonexistent Places

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  Human Error Blamed for Crediting New Stimulus Jobs to Nonexistent Places Late Monday, officials with the Recovery Board created to track the stimulus spending, said the mistakes in crediting nonexistent congressional districts were caused by human error. "We report what the recipients submit to us," said Ed Pound, Communications Director for the [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:41pm EST
  

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• Maj. in Miss: Ghost of Districts past - MS-5 has 30 jobs saved by stimulus

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  Maj. in Miss: Ghost of Districts past - MS-5 has 30 jobs saved by stimulus And by MS-05 I mean Mississippi’s Fifth Congressional District, the district that disappeared almost a decade ago. Miraculously, the $787 billion stimulus has created or “saved” 30 jobs in that extinct district at the cost [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:29pm EST
  

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• Agencies prepare for wave of cuts - Government aims to “really streamline,” state auditor says

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  Agencies prepare for wave of cuts - Government aims to "really streamline," state auditor says Mississippians could see even longer lines when they get driver's licenses renewed. The state auditor's office is putting off technology upgrades. And state government jobs will continue to go unfilled. Leaders of state agencies are prioritizing services that must [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:06pm EST
  

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• Recovery.org: The Stimulus Created or “Saved” 30 Jobs In MS-05

  —Majority In Mississippi

  And by MS-05 I mean Mississippi’s Fifth Congressional District, the district that disappeared almost a decade ago. Miraculously, the $787 billion stimulus has created or “saved” 30 jobs in that extinct district at the cost of more than $984,000 (which is relatively cheap at about $32,000 a job). This information [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:06am EST
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• Democrats: Terrorists bring jobs

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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:39pm EST
  

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• Pettus reviews "green" industries in Mississippi

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  From 'Green' jobs in Miss. not easy to quantify | clarionledger.com: green projects in miss. Approximately 50 biomass energy projects exist in the state, and the industry is growing. Biomass...
  
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:25am EST
  

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• Barbour, 3 other governors visit troops in Iraq

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  Barbour, 3 other governors visit troops in Iraq Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Tuesday from Iraq that he's proud of the job American troops are doing. Barbour and the governors of Georgia, Oregon and Wyoming are on a trip sponsored by the Department of Defense. The trip was announced only after the governors [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 2:41pm EST
  

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• Barbour Delivers Weekly GOP Address

  —Capstone Public Affairs Blog

  Governor Haley Barbour gave the weekly Republican address this Saturday.  He spoke about the Virginia and New Jersey races, health care policy, and the need to refocus attention on jobs.
  

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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 11:07am EST
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• New Look, New Name for Downtown Restaurant

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  by Ward Schaefer Suniora Page bounced back from bad luck to a new career. After being laid off from her job as a manager at the Nissan plant in Canton in October 2008, Page took a job as a cashier at Miller's Grocery in the City Centre building downtown. When she [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:00pm EST
  

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• Harper votes to extend unemployment benefits

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  Harper votes to extend unemployment benefits HARPER VOTES TO EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS; HOMEBUYER TAX CREDIT WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Gregg Harper (R–Miss.) today voted for legislation to extend unemployment benefits to jobless workers in Mississippi and expand a homebuyers’ tax credit that was set to expire November 30, 2009. “With national unemployment [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:11pm EST
  

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• NorthSideSun - Stimulus cost per job off the charts

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  NorthSideSun - Stimulus cost per job off the charts The Obama administration has announced 640,000 jobs were “created or saved” with its $787 billion stimulus package. That’s a whopping $1.2 million per job. There we have it. I am now guilty of what the White House has termed “calculator abuse.” In fact, only [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:10pm EST
  

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• Burnham Selected as Superintendent of Schools

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  November 4, 2009 The Mississippi Board of Education announced its unanimous selection for Superintendent of Schools yesterday: Dr. Tom Burnham, 56, who held the position from 1992 to 1997. Burnham replaces Interim Superintendent Dr. John Jordan, who took on the job when former-Superintendent Dr. Hank Bounds took the position of Commissioner [...]

  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:29pm EST
  

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• MCJ - ObamaCare’s free lunch

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  ObamaCare's free lunch The government bailouts, the corporate salary caps, the rising deficit, cap and trade and the ominous ObamaCare are all deeply disturbing developments coming out of Washington. How could elected officials, at the exact point in history when jobs and the economy are so vitally important to the welfare of [...]

  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:05pm EST
  

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• After a flurry of stimulus spending, questionable projects pile up

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  After a flurry of stimulus spending, questionable projects pile up The $787 billion stimulus bill was passed in February and was promised as a job saver and economy booster. Here is where some of the money went: - $300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford [...]

  Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:05pm EST
  

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• After a flurry of stimulus spending, questionable projects pile up

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  After a flurry of stimulus spending, questionable projects pile up The $787 billion stimulus bill was passed in February and was promised as a job saver and economy booster. Here is where some of the money went: - $300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford [...]

  Posted: November 03, 2009, 1:05pm EST
  

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• JFP Person of the Day: Laurence C. Jones

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  November 2, 2009 by Ronni Mott A hundred years ago, Laurence Clifton Jones established The Piney Woods School in rural Rankin County with $2 and three students. Jones, born Nov. 21, 1884, in St. Joseph Mo., graduated from the University of Iowa in 1908. He turned down a job at Tuskeegee Institute [...]

  Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:15pm EST
  

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• JFP Person of the Day: Laurence C. Jones

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  November 2, 2009 by Ronni Mott A hundred years ago, Laurence Clifton Jones established The Piney Woods School in rural Rankin County with $2 and three students. Jones, born Nov. 21, 1884, in St. Joseph Mo., graduated from the University of Iowa in 1908. He turned down a job at Tuskeegee Institute [...]

  Posted: November 02, 2009, 7:15pm EST
  

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• Obama Finally Saves Someone's Job...

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  And it turns out to be a nutty would-be dictator in Latin America. Awesome. Amateur Hour continues.The Great Red Spot-We Aim To Misbehave in Mississippi. [...]

  Posted: November 01, 2009, 6:49pm EST
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• What mayor said, “I brought in 1,100 companies from around the world – $70 billion in private investment – and generated more than a million new jobs.”

  —Phil Hardwick's Weblog

  From an article in the Washington Times - In a race testing racial harmony in Georgia’s largest city, some veteran black power brokers say their hold on power is being undercut by their past successes running the city. “We haven’t always gotten the credit for that, no,” said former Atlanta Mayor Andrew [...]

  Posted: November 01, 2009, 9:40am EST
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• Aerospace Alliance Draws Fire From Unions

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  by Ward Schaefer October 30, 2009 Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour's support for an aerospace jobs initiative among Gulf Coast states puts him at odds, with a familiar opponent: labor unions. On Oct. 26, Barbour joined his fellow Republican governors from Louisiana and Alabama in announcing the Aerospace Alliance, a non-profit collaboration between [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2009, 6:54pm EDT
  

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• Batesville Job Corps Center Renaming Ceremony a Resounding Success

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  Batesville Job Corps Center Renaming Ceremony a Resounding Success A welcome banner with the likeness of former governor Charles “Cliff” Finch and former representative Dr. Aaron Henry was on display at the entrance to the Job Corps Center. In the gym where the program was held, mums and Easter lilies adorned [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2009, 11:03am EDT
  

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• Barbour’s work to bring foreign investment here profiled in book

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  Jobs: Foreign investment helps Miss. But the fact that foreign investment in Mississippi has increased over the last several years is undeniable. A new book by New York Times senior business writer Michelle Maynard called The Selling of the American Economy: How Foreign Companies Are Remaking the American Dream focuses on Mississippi's' [...]

  Posted: October 29, 2009, 2:05pm EDT
  

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• Miss. governor: Economic special session postponed

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  Miss. governor: Economic special session postponed JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Wednesday he's postponing a special legislative session he intended to call this week for a project that promises up to 500 jobs in the economically struggling Delta. Barbour said the $300 million manufacturing plant is still planned, but [...]

  Posted: October 29, 2009, 1:48am EDT
  

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• Young Gun

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  I recognize the job is already taken, but it sure would be a lot of fun to manage the campaign against Alan Nunnelee.  The latest opportunity to have some fun is the designation by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) that Nunnelee has joined the "Young Guns" club.  I mean, really.  First these [...]

  Posted: October 28, 2009, 3:03pm EDT
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• Malcolm Harrison's About Face: "I don't think it's important that you choose an African American"

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  It's funny how things change. Consider Malcolm Harrison attacking Governor Haley Barbour on his judicial appointments eight months ago."He has not appointed any African Americans for judge in any of his 20 appointments. It’s sad that he cannot believe an African American could do the job. African Americans are more'" [...]

  Posted: October 28, 2009, 11:18am EDT
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