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Episode 15: Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. Guest: State Rep. Greg Ward, chairman of the state House Agriculture Committee, talks about his efforts to ban the sale of bath salts, the drug-of-choice for some people, in Mississippi. Host: Terry R. Cassreino, chief consultant, Better Mississippi Group LLC. Running Time: 9:02. Click here.

Episode 14: Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. Guest: State Rep. John Mayo, chairman of the state House Conservation and Water Resources Committee, talks about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and its lingering effects on Mississippi. Host: Terry R. Cassreino, chief consultant, Better Mississippi Group LLC. Running Time: 11:25. Click here.

Episode 13: Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. Guest: State Sen. David Baria talks about a controversial immigration bill that cleared the Mississippi Senate on Tuesday, Jan. 18. Host: Terry R. Cassreino, chief consultant, Better Mississippi Group LLC. Running Time: 11:24. Click here.
Episode 12: Friday, Jan. 21, 2011. Guest: State Rep. Linda Whittington talks about her opposition this week to a pay check lending bill that passed the state House. Host: Terry R. Cassreino, chief consultant, Better Mississippi Group LLC. Running Time: 9:07. Click here.

Episode 11: Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Guest: Longtime Madison Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler talks about how her city has fared during the Great Recession, a recent spurt in retail and her political plans for the future. Host: Terry R. Cassreino, chief consultant, Better Mississippi Group LLC. Running Time: 27:38. Click here.

Episode 10: Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Guest: State Rep. Bobby Moak, House Gaming Committee chairman, talks about the effects of the BP oil spill on the Coast casino industry and plans by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians to open a casino in Jones County. Host: Terry R. Cassreino, chief consultant, Better Mississippi Group LLC. Running Time: 29:02. Click here.

Episode 9: Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Guest: Derrick Johnson, president of the Mississippi State Conference NAACP, Jackson, talks about the former Nettleton Middle School policy that dictated which race of students could serve as class officials. Host: Terry R. Cassreino, chief consultant, Better Mississippi Group LLC. Running Time: 21:37. Click here.

Episode 8: Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Guest: State Rep. Cecil Brown, D-Jackson, chairman, House Education Committee, talks about how the state’s budget crisis and ongoing economic recession are affecting public education across Mississippi. Host: Terry R. Cassreino, chief consultant, Better Mississippi Group LLC. Running Time: 18:35. Click here.

Episode 7: Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. Guest: Marianne Hill, chairwoman of the Mississippi Commission on the Status of Women, talks about women in political office, professional opportunities for women and inequities in pay. Host: Terry R. Cassreino, chief consultant, Better Mississippi Group LLC. Running Time: 22:35. Click here.

Episode 6: Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Guest: Dick Hall, Mississippi transportation commission, Central District, talks about the benefits of the state’s 1987 four-lane highway program, funding issues facing the Mississippi Department of Transportation and highway construction projects across the state. Host: Terry R. Cassreino, chief consultant, Better Mississippi Group LLC. Running Time: 28:52. Click here.

Episode 5: Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. Guest: Louie Miller, state director, Sierra Club, talks about the latest news from the BP Gulf oil spill. Host: Terry R. Cassreino, chief consultant, Better Mississippi Group LLC. Running time: 25:26. Click here.

Episode 4: Thursday, July 29, 2010. Guest: Haley Barbour, Mississippi governor, talks at a news conference from the Neshoba County Fair about a planned Choctaw Indian casino in Jackson County, the BP Gulf oil spill and stronger immigratoin laws. Host: Terry R. Cassreino, chief consultant, Better Mississippi Group LLC. Running time: 9:00. Click here.

Episode 3: Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Guest: Jim Hood, Mississippi attorney general, talks at a news conference from the Neshoba County Fair about the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians plans to build a casino in Jones County and the BP oil spill cleanup on the Gulf Coast. Host: Terry R. Cassreino, chief consultant, Better Mississippi Group LLC. Running time: 9:35. Click here.

Episode 2: Tuesday, July 27, 2010. Guest: Bill Minor, longtime syndicated political columnist, talks about the significance of the traditional political stump speeches at the 2010 Neshoba County Fair. Host: Terry R. Cassreino, chief consultant Better Mississippi Group LLC. Running time: 21:38. Click here.

Episode 1: Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Guest: David Newell, president of the Central Mississippi Building and Construction Trade Council AFL-CIO, talks about work-place safety in relation to the Deepwater Horizon rig disaster. Host: Terry R. Cassreino, chief consultant Better Mississippi Group LLC. Running time: 16:21. Click here.