Dispatches
Former Meridian Star staffer Raymond Billy, who has a name only a fellow soul afflicted with a similarly reversed moniker could truly appreciate, has joined the Jacksonsville (TX) Daily Progress as news editor…Tennessee State Poet Laureate Margaret Britton Vaughn spent some of her formative years as a salesperson for the old Gulfport Daily Herald…Guess what! Samir Husni, aka “Mr. Magazine,” is the subject of a media profile…Joey Vaughan and Michael McCollum have been promoted at the Commercial Dispatch…Nomadic Tony Cooper, formerly of Stuttgart, AR, Olive Branch, Meridian, Columbus, Pontotoc, Magnolia, et al, has landed in Gonzales, LA…The Clarion-Ledger’s Jerry Mitchell has been feted by yet another university.