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Governor Haley Barbour’s office has told The Clarion-Ledger that it will produce four-days worth of staff email correspondence if the newspaper ponies up $14,107, including over $5,000 in fees related to hauling in an out-of-town computer guru to figure out how to comply with the request.

Barbour spokesman, longtime newsman Buddy Bynum, former editor of the Mississippi Business Journal and Meridian Star, was tasked with the unenviable job of going on record for what is an exorbitant — if not laughable — charge for access to the emails. “It definitely would be cheaper to refuse to answer,” he said, indicating some states would have summarily dismissed such a request for records. He ain’t lyin’.

Retired Sun Herald publisher Roland Weeks, credited with persuading divergent Mississippi Coast communities to speak in one regional development voice, is the 2008 recipient of the Capt. William Harris Hardy Founder’s Day Award…Ed Nichols, who recently took the reins of the Clarksdale Press-Register as publisher, has assumed the same duties for the Greenville Delta Democrat Times. Both papers are owned by Jackson-based Emmerich group. Nichols succeeds John Clark in Greenville.

There have been doubters ever since Packers star quarterback Brett Favre announced his retirement last month.  And after his interview in The Sun Herald, those doubters have reason to feel validated.

Asked whether he would return should the Packers be hit with injuries, the 38-year-old told the newspaper, “It would be hard to pass up, I guess. But three months from now, say that presents itself, I may say, you know what, I’m so glad I made that decision. I’m feeling very comfortable in what I’m doing and my decision.”

ALSO: The AP splits hairs over the location of The Sun-Herald.

MEANWHILE: What about Deuce?

Round-the-clock blogging, a text message blinking and yet another flash of video on YouTube has obviously sped communication up to a dizzying pace. Never mind the content. So says the seasoned Sid Salter (how’s that for alliteration) to a group of political science majors at Mississippi State.