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The Pascagoula Hilton Garden Inn is dollar-for-dollar one of the biggest welfare queens in the county. The literal groundwork for the hotel was paid for by federal taxpayers, in the form of a $3.3 million grant from HUD, through the MDA and the City of Pascagoula. This was used to do the site work, move
OPINION: Pascagoula Hilton Garden Inn is a Welfare Queen Read More »
A lot of the players who were either complicit, confederates, or otherwise conniving in the corruption surrounding Singing River Health System and the Jackson County Board of Supervisors are now gone. Retirement saw the departure of Nebo Carter and Mike Crews. A higher paying refuge in Jackson beckoned to Chris Anderson. Downsizing and out of
OPINION: Vestiges of Corruption Cancer Remain, Must Be Removed Read More »
While all of Jackson County has been paying close attention to the fact that Barry Cumbest has been using elected office to lobby for projects that touch upon lands owned by him and his family, there is another conflict of interest that has been overlooked: he is a member of the putative class in the
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Billy Guice thinks SRHS pension plan trustee Steve Simpson is not doing a good job. In a recent JCBOS meeting, Guice criticized Simpson’s handling of the plan’s funds and also with Simpson’s apparent lack of transparency. Guice went on to say that Simpson would not have been his first choice for trustee. Simpson wasn’t the
With the impending departure of Celeste Reep Oglesby to Tennessee, Singing River is on the hunt for a replacement. Recently Oglesby circulated the below e-mail to local law firms and attorneys. We are told that most of the attorneys being contacted are under the age of 45, the implication being that SRHS is looking for
Local and social media has been abuzz recently with talk about transparency of the Jackson County Utility Authority. Several city leaders are going to the mattresses against the JCUA claiming that the board has no oversight, no transparency, no accountability, and no way to be reined in. Much of the language and arguments being used
Dogan & Wilkinson Now Advocating Transparency, Just Not at SRHS Read More »
In reading the responses to the Miss. Supreme Court, the phrase “missing the forest for the trees” springs to mind. It seems that all parties involved have become so focused on the competing federal and chancery cases, they forget the underlying and undeniable facts. Subsequent to the ex parte hearing, six separate orders were entered
Swiss Cheese Chronicles: Sua Sponte or on Motion of the Parties? Read More »
Editor’s note: A local attorney who is not involved in any SRHS litigation has written to share his/her opinion after viewing the video and reading the motion filed by Barton and Denham. I will use no falsehood nor delay any person’s cause for lucre or malice…. Miss. Code 73-3-35 (Oath of Miss. attorneys taken upon
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Attorneys Harvey Barton and Earl Denham have filed a motion with the Mississippi Supreme Court asking for an emergency hearing on their cases in the Singing River pension matter. Barton and Denham point to video of a secret meeting by the judges in the case and attorneys from SRHS and for other plaintiffs. The motion
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