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Director of MS Dept. Transportation Highest paid Official in State?

Having read this story which states that the Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Transportation will be receiving $144,354-a-year for a job he was once so bad at as to get fired, I got to thinking how this sounded pretty high for the poorest state in the union.  After doing a little net [...]

Chinese Drywall Horrors Hitting Mississippi

Many homes rebuilt on the coast after hurricane Katrina used imported Chinese drywall.  Now the stuff is making the occupants sick and forcing them, once again, to pick up and move out, fast.
Mississippi attorney Steve Mullins has joined the cadre of court actions.
"Bloody noses, headaches, respiratory infections," Mullins said, ticking off the list [...]

Socialism Rages in Mississippi House and Senate

During last November’s election cycle we all learned from that great American Scholar and Orator, Joe the Plumber, that socialism is, “the taking of wealth from one to give to another”.  Many members of the Mississippi House and Senate paraded around the state repeating the line.  It was proclaimed as Universal and Authoritative truth.
Now [...]

Mississippi Nursing Homes Rated

The CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) has issued quality ratings for 15,800 nursing homes throughout the USA that participate in Medicare or Medicaid. Each nursing home is assigned a star rating, from one to five – with five being the best. The ratings are based on health inspection surveys, staffing information, and [...]

Mississippians Disproportionately Hurt by High Gas Prices

If you happened to read my article of a few days back, True reason for high gas prices, you will understand more when you read this well researched and written piece by the New York Times.  It is speculated that  in some places in Mississippi, gas cost us as much as 8 times higher [...]