Listen to The Morning Show with Bill Smith and Dumpster Dog and featuring Dave Owen, Rep Greg Snowden on The Morning Show
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Rep Greg Snowden
Mississippi House representative Greg Snowden joins Bill and the Dog on The Morning Show and discusses Nathan’s Law, the Voter ID Initiative, school budget woes and more. Click the link below to hear the conversation.
Wildcat Basketball Standout Rodney Hood
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Rodney Hood
Meridian High Wildcat Rodney Hood is clearly one of the best basketball players in Mississippi. Rodney, only a junior, will attempt to lead the Wildcats to their first state championship since 1979. Rodney joins Bill Smith and Dave Owen on The Morning Show the day before the big game. Click the link below to listen to the interview.
Tom Perryman on The Morning Show
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Tom Perryman
Radio legend Tom Perryman joins Jacky Jack White and Bill Smith on The Morning Show. Tom Perryman was the first regular disc jockey of an all night Country music show on WSM, and an General Manger and co-owner of two of the earliest fulltime Country radio stations. He was Jim Reeves’ long time friend, business partner and right hand man. Click the link below to listen.
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Barry Hannah Dies
By · CommentsOxford lost one of its best-known writers yesterday afternoon, close friends have confirmed. Barry Hannah died just days before this year’s Oxford Conference for the Book, set to be dedicated to him and his work. He would have been 68 years old next month. Hannah was the author of eight novels and several short stories, and was the director of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Mississippi.
Barry Hannah
MPSD Superintendent Charlie Kent Fired
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Charlie Kent
In a surprise announcement at the Meridian Public School District’s Central Office, Board of Trustees Vice-president Don Evans said District Superintendent Charlie Kent was fired. Evans said an emergency Board of Trustees meeting was called last night to evaluate Kent’s performance since Kent took over the position in July 2008. When contacted by phone, Kent had no comment.
Read the story by Brian Livingston in The Meridian Star here.
David Palmer Talks about the Reichstag Fire
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David Palmer
David Palmer visits The Morning Show to discuss the anniversary of the Reichstag fire, its role in history, why some see similarities post 911 and how we can learn from it. Click the links below to listen to the conversation.
Forest Thigpen on School Choice and Charter Schools
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Forest Thigpen
Forest Thigpen, President Mississippi Center for Public Policy, joins The Morning Show and discusses school choice and charter schools. Not only did we discuss the status of this innovation in Mississippi, we also discussed how charter schools have made a difference across the country. Click the link below to listen to the interview.
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Dr Susan Carmichael and Teen Self-destruction
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Dr Susan Carmichael, clinical psychologist at Weems Community Mental Health Center, joins The Morning Show with Bill Smith and the Dog and discusses teen self-destruction; self-injury, starving, drug and alcohol abuse, pharming and much more. Click the link below to hear the interview.
Fredie Carmichael and Bats
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Fredie Carmichael
The Meridian Star
editor Fredie Carmichael joins Bill and the Dog on The Morning Show and discusses the newspaper, the smoking ban, bats and more. Click the links below to listen.
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Peavey Named to Best in Show
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Music retail experts at the 2010 Winter NAMM convention have honored Peavey Electronics with the “NAMM Best In Show – Company to Watch” award.
Convened at the International Music Products Association’s 2010 winter expo, held January 14-17 in Anaheim, Calif., the panelists at NAMM University’s Best In Show offered their views on the industry’s best companies, products and services.
Mike Guillot, director of purchasing for Mississippi Music, a four-store retail chain based in Hattiesburg, Miss., named Peavey Electronics his top “Company to Watch” for its long-standing commitment to advancing the state of the art while providing dealers with highly saleable products.
“For Mississippi Music and a lot of other dealers out there, we consistently have Peavey in our top five companies,” said Guillot during the Best In Show presentation on January 17. “The Peavey IPR™ power amplifiers are super-light, high-tech and low-priced, and now there’s the new Impulse® 12D, a powered speaker that incorporates the IPR amplifier system. You’ve got to hear it.”
Peavey Electronics Corporation founder and CEO Hartley Peavey said, “For 45 years, we’ve worked hard to design products that enhance the creative process and the audio experience. We have concentrated our energies on developing new technologies to give dealers a full range of compelling, unique music and sound products. Mississippi Music is a longtime retail partner of ours, and we’re excited to have their endorsement of our innovative new product lines.”
Guillot also praised the Peavey Vypyr® Series, which dramatically redefines the power and scope of modern guitar amplification with highly detailed, accurate modeling based on 32-bit digital signal processing, patented analog TransTube® technology, and real tubes. The Vypyr Series has won prestigious awards for its tone and technology, including Product of the Year and Instrument Amp of the Year from the Music & Sound Retailer; the Gold Award for Overall Value from Guitar World; and Amp Line of the Year two years in a row from Musical Merchandise Review.
The groundbreaking Peavey IPR Series professional power amplifiers utilize an advanced design with a switch-mode power supply and a high-speed class D topology to dramatically reduce weight while increasing reliability, efficiency and power. The IPR 1600 won the Best New Power Amplifier award in the 2010 Music & Sound Awards, presented by the Music & Sound Retailer.
Peavey Electronics debuted more than 20 new products to an international audience of 87,569 music retailers, media and musicians at the Winter NAMM 2010 convention, including new the Impulse 12D powered enclosure, Nano Vypyr portable modeling guitar amp, new PXD™ Series guitars and basses, the 6534™ Plus guitar amp, and many more. Please visit www.peavey.com/namm for a full recap of the products and personalities at the Peavey exhibit during the convention.
