by Kelly Brignac
October 28, 2009
Empowerment specialist and domestic-violence awareness activist Sil Lai Abrams, author of the book "No More Drama: Nine Simple Steps of Transforming a Breakdown Into a Breakthrough," expresses a desire to help ...
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by Andi Agnew
October 7, 2009
"Don't put those on, they'll give you a headache," my mother would tell me when I was little. She was referring to her coke-bottle glasses that she only wore at night after taking off her contacts. I wanted to know ...
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by Jackie Warren Tatum
September 24, 2009
Unless one's been in a coma or the slammer, it's not news that the "Dancing With The Stars" competition began this week on ABC. It might be news, however, that the "Stars" competition bears little, if any, ...
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by Andi Agnew
September 9, 2009
I have been practicing yoga on and off for a few years now, first taking classes at the YMCA, then Butterfly Yoga, which I still frequent when I can. But lately my schedule has been so hectic that the only way to ...
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August 19, 2009
One of my mother's favorite family dinners is "Shake and Bake" chicken, made with a store-bought box of flavored bread crumbs used to coat the chicken pieces. Mom always serves "Shake and Bake" chicken with a side of canned corn ...
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by Ronni Mott
August 12, 2009
Fried chicken, biscuits with butter and honey, mashed potatoes with gravy—all that outstandingly delicious Southern comfort food has a way of adding pounds and inches, fast. Add it to a sedentary lifestyle, and you'll ...
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Dawn R. Dugle
July 29, 2009
There may come a day when I don't recognize you. We could be best friends, have had great adventures and long conversations about everything under the sun. But I won't know that. I'll stare blankly at you as you ...
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by Tricia Childress
July 15, 2009
It all started with a cold, then a cough. By the time I saw my physician, who was more than happy to share her "if-you-had-seen-me-sooner" lecture, I realized that even with a hefty antibiotic dose, an inhaler and ...
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by Melia Dicker
July 1, 2009
A few years ago, I nearly got into a war with one of my housemates.
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by Melia Dicker
June 17, 2009
As I walked down St. Charles Street in New Orleans after a Mardi Gras parade, I heard a loud horn honking behind me. I turned and threw an irritated look at the car rolling toward the crowds at a few miles per hour.
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by Terri Cowart
May 20, 2009
She was sitting in the driver’s seat of the car with the windows up. The two-inch ash dangled on her cigarette. I thought she must have been waiting on someone.
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by Jackie Warren Tatum
May 5, 2009
Alice cared about her neighborhood and was convinced that her “bad” neighbors across the street were into drugs. She believed that signing an affidavit against them risked her safety; Jackson police officers had ...
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by Andi Agnew
April 22, 2009
After losing my Basset Hound, Charlie, to cancer a couple years ago, I decided to wait a while before getting a new pet. I just missed my floppy-eared friend too much. Eventually, I decided that I would not turn away ...
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by Jessica Kinnison
April 8, 2009
JoEva Flettrich turned off the fluorescent lights in her office after 23 years on the job. The lights are an external manifestation of the change she wants to see in her personal life—like a haircut or sitting in ...
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by Michele Baker
March 25, 2009
We've all experienced back pain. It wakes you up in the middle of the night, twinges when you walk and makes sitting a pain in the rear. There are many reasons a healthy person might experience back pain, and as a ...
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March 20, 2009
[verbatim] Sister Mary Dorothea Sondgeroth, O.P., President, St. Dominic Health Services, Inc. and chair for the 2009 Metro Jackson Start! Heart Walk is challenging local companies to participate in the American Heart Association's ...
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The North Street Family Medical Clinic (953 North Street) is inviting Jacksonians to the clinic's first health fair on March 28th from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Various physicians, clinics and medical supply companies will be on hand as well as companies ...
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March 12, 2009
President Obama is quickly overturning some of the previous administration’s health-care regulations that primarily affected women. On the president’s desk now is a provision reversing a 2005 law that financially dissuaded ...
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[Editorial] Johnson Fumbles
Walt: Seems to me Johnson handled the situation just right. Why should Johnson grant Ill Weill additional powers. I bet Weill voted against him. Weill can't be won over - he's a republican.
Nov 07, 2009 | 11:59 AM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Ironghost: Actually, Ronni, I'm curious where this whole Media Diversity progrom will end. After you've shamed VIP into submission, what's next? Are ya'll going to hit Supertalk for not having ...
Nov 06, 2009 | 06:42 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Ronni M: Bubba, like most things, it's only unimportant if it has no affect on *your* life. If you were an African American, I expect you'd feel differently about your home-town media ...
Nov 06, 2009 | 05:27 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Ironghost: I think you were the one I pointed out asking about the divisiveness of the issue. I'd have to go back and make sure I attributed it right. It was before I made Chili, so...
Nov 06, 2009 | 05:08 PM
JFP People of the Day: Barbara Taylor and Jerry Mosley
L.W.: That's great! Maybe I will see them at the walk tomorrow. I'm so glad that people are opening up more and more about mental health issues. It's about time! By the ...
Nov 06, 2009 | 04:57 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Queen601: No idea why I'm biting on this, but Ironghost, I'd love to know which one of those categories you've placed me in....I'd choose to think neither, since I'm not a usual player here. I ...
Nov 06, 2009 | 04:37 PM
New Look, New Name for Downtown Restaurant
thabian: They do...
Nov 06, 2009 | 03:29 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
BubbaT: Brian- I just did a quick count, but they aren't far off. Wasn't trying to be scientific, just a rough count. Not that it matters anyway. I think the whole discussion is ridiculous. I ...
Nov 06, 2009 | 02:42 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
Brian C Johnson: Bubba, if were to apply the same measure to this issue of the JFP that the index applied to VIP, the first black face appears on page 1, if we count the cover, page 2 if we ...
Nov 06, 2009 | 02:13 PM
JFP INDEX: VIP White Jackson
golden eagle: I'm a little late on this, but I found some numbers on the percentages of black in the metro area. This is as of 2000, but Hinds County was 61.1% black, Madison at 37.5% and Rankin ...