ARTICLES CONCERNING
MARTHA D. SAUNDERS' AIRPLANE - AIRFARCE ONE

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(September 12, 2010) Aunt Martha’s Extravagance Part 6 – ‘Fly Me Out to the Ball Game’ Via a Mississippi Open Records Act request, USMNEWS.net recently obtained a large batch of documents from USM relating to USM president Martha Saunders’ university aircraft. This series, Aunt Martha’s Extravagance, provides analysis of these documents. This installment examines the 6- and 7-June-09 trip in the USM airplane made by Saunders and her athletics director, Richard Giannini. According to the invoice, which is inserted below, USM charged itself a total of $2,640 for this trip to watch the USM Golden Eagles baseball team compete against Florida in a 2009 NCAA Baseball Super Regional series.

(September 1, 2010) QUESTION: WHAT SHOULD A TRIP FROM HATTIESBURG, MS TO WEST POINT, MS COST?

(September 2, 2010) QUESTION: WHAT SHOULD A TRIP FROM HATTIESBURG, MS TO BIRMINGHAM, AL COST?

(September 3, 2010) QUESTION: WHAT SHOULD A TRIP FROM HATTIESBURG, MS TO GAINESVILLE, FL COST?

(September 3, 2010) . . . breaking news . . . Is Information about the USM Plane Being Covered Up? HATTIESBURG – This week at USM couldn’t have gone any worse had USM president Martha Saunders prepared the Golden Eagles football team for its game against South Carolina and USM head football coach Larry Fedora dealt with the $15 million FY2012 budget cut.

(September 5, 2010) Special Report “Welcome Aboard IHL Air” Which IHL Board Members are Using the USM Plane As stated in recent USMNEWS.net reports, records regarding USM’s Beechcraft airplane have been obtained by USMNEWS.net via a Mississippi Open Records request. Those records have already resulted in a number of new reports and editorials. This Special Report examines use of the USM plane by various IHL board members, including the IHL commissioner, Hank Bounds. To begin, Table 1 below lists the IHL board members, including Bounds, along with information both on the number of trips taken on the plane and a brief description of each trip taken.

(September 7, 2010) QUESTION: WHAT SHOULD A TRIP FROM HATTIESBURG, MS TO OXFORD, MS COST?

(September 8, 2010) QUESTION: WHAT SHOULD A TRIP FROM HATTIESBURG, MS TO CLEVELAND, MS COST?

(September 10, 2010) QUESTION: WHAT SHOULD A TRIP FROM HATTIESBURG, MS TO HOUSTON, TX COST? AND WHY DID LT. GOVERNOR PHIL BRYANT GO, TOO?