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The Reflector rebukes Secretary of State candidate Jeffrey Rupp for leaving a specially-created post at Mississippi State after only six months to run for office.

John Newhouse, former publisher of The Clarion-Ledger, has set up shop in Texas as publisher of the Beaumont Enterprise.

Editor and Publisher reports The Sun Herald has called the cops in on vending machine thefts…Sam Hall, editor and publisher of the Demopolis Times in Alabama, recalls meeting folks while on duty in Mississippi, including some influential newspaper types…The Daily Journal’s Charlie Langford parses some minutia about the new Toyota plant…An Arbor Day celebration in Ocean Springs memorialized recently-deceased residents of the community, including former Mississippi Press city editor Regina Hines Ellison…Ed Trainor, former general manager of the New Albany Gazette and editor for The Star-Herald, has been named GM of the Eufaula Tribune in Alabama.