Mississippi native William Raspberry, longtime political columnist, and Jerry Mitchell, Clarion-Ledger pitbull, were on NPR Wedneday morning discussing the results in North Carolina and Indiana, as well as where the Presidential campaign is headed.
Longtime University of Southern Mississippi journalism professor Art Kaul, 62, died Tuesday afternoon at his home in Hattiesburg.
The vice chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians has issued a statement to clarify the facts surrounding an altercation last month with a male student at a community college after going there to retrieve his minor-age daughter from a dorm room.
Assault charges were filed against Vice Chief Eddie Sam and subsequently dropped in the March 31 incident at East Mississippi Community College in Scooba, according to Kemper County authorities.
Sam contacted The Neshoba Democrat in an effort to set the record straight after reports he characterized as malicious attacks appeared in another publication.
A Tribal Council resolution earlier this month to remove Sam based on the allegations failed.
The Democrat article reports that when Sam made an appeal to the other publication, the upstart Philadelphian newspaper, he had to make his case not only before the editor of that paper, but also to the mayor of Philadelphia and the local economic development agency head.
Tom Collins, owner of Tupelo Engraving and Rubber Stamp and a former executive for Hancock Fabrics, has accepted the position as general manager of The Pontotoc Progress. He succeeds Lisa Bryant, who moves to the Daily Journal mother ship as advertising director…Renae Alexander is the new advertising director of The Meridian Star…Heather Freret has returned to the Stone County Enterprise in Wiggins as publisher after leaving the paper in 2007.
From the AP: “Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said he’s unhappy about corporate ownership of news organizations in the United States.
“Something that worries me more so than the war and Iraq and money in politics is freedom of the press,” Hood said. “Is our press free anymore? The corporate ownership of the press nationally is a concern to me.”
From The Mississippi Press newspaper in Pascagoula: “An experiment in government transparency conducted by the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson yielded a not-so-surprising result.
“The newspaper reported it requested Gov. Haley Barbour’s office to produce four days of e-mails from Barbour’s staff of about 40 people.
“The governor’s office responded with an estimate that it would cost $14,170.48 to meet the request.”
MORE: Where other states stand in releasing emails from governors.
Russell Hood of the Webster Progress-Times in Eupora has been tapped for the Community Service Award by the Webster County Development Council…The incoming staff for the Reflector at Mississippi State University has taken over the reins of the newspaper…Good thing Jerry Mitchell has a “double-wide” cubicle at The Clarion-Ledger, as a profile in The Christian Science Monitor notes. He needs that space to pin up all the press he’s received in recent years.
From the Atlanta Journal Constitution: “The Mississippi attorney general’s office has sued a Cobb County design, engineering and construction management firm for breach of contract and gross negligence in a failed beef processing plant in the northern part of the state.
“The Facility Group, based in Smyrna, was hired to complete the Mississippi Beef Processors plant.”
EARLIER: The Facility Group was already facing problems in North Carolina due to the “Beef Plant Stench.”
Two high-profile former U.S. senators — Republican Trent Lott of Mississippi and Democrat John Breaux of Louisiana — have been enlisted to push the merger of Delta and Northwest Airlines. Delta also has signed up government affairs firm Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti Inc., packed with former Capitol Hill senior staffers, and a law firm that employs R. Hewitt Pate, who ran the antitrust division at the U.S. Justice Department from 2003 to 2005.
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