Where's the Money Going?
Federal funds designated to Katrina recovery projects: $110 billion
Federal funds "released" to date: $77 billion
As of July, the amount of money FEMA reports it has spent in relief for hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma: $37 billion
Percentage of that amount…
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[Editor’s Note] Onward I Must Go
by Natalie A. Collier
August 23, 2006
I don't recollect ever being one in my younger age who made notoriously teenage comments like, "I can't wait until I'm grown" or "Just as soon as I leave the house I'm gonna. ..." (My mother may beg to…
August 23, 2006
I don't recollect ever being one in my younger age who made notoriously teenage comments like, "I can't wait until I'm grown" or "Just as soon as I leave the house I'm gonna. ..." (My mother may beg to…
[Your Turn] Into The Unknown
by Kaycie Hall
August 23, 2006
For me, high school was awful. I felt like I was trapped in useless classes surrounded by immature and idiotic people. Then comes senior year, when everyone pretends they have always loved each other. People who have hardly spoken a…
August 23, 2006
For me, high school was awful. I felt like I was trapped in useless classes surrounded by immature and idiotic people. Then comes senior year, when everyone pretends they have always loved each other. People who have hardly spoken a…
[Stiggers] I Have A Weave
by Ken Stiggers
August 23, 2006
Boneqweesha Jones: "Welcome to Hair-Did University's School of Cosmetology fall semester orientation! I want to have an 'off the-cuff' chat with you.
"Some of you may see me as an 'old fuddy-duddy' boring you about stuff…
August 23, 2006
Boneqweesha Jones: "Welcome to Hair-Did University's School of Cosmetology fall semester orientation! I want to have an 'off the-cuff' chat with you.
"Some of you may see me as an 'old fuddy-duddy' boring you about stuff…
[Kamikaze] Stop The Witch Hunt
by Kamikaze
August 23, 2006
Enough already! At this point we're beating the proverbial dead horse. It's one thing to do some good investigative journalism. It's another to question standing policy or programs. But it's another altogether to be obsessed with finding fault in some of…
August 23, 2006
Enough already! At this point we're beating the proverbial dead horse. It's one thing to do some good investigative journalism. It's another to question standing policy or programs. But it's another altogether to be obsessed with finding fault in some of…
[Editor’s Note] Where The Streets Have No Name
by Donna Ladd
August 16, 2006
I've flown to Chicago twice in a month to give writing workshops at Northwestern's journalism school, and each time I've been swept up in a wave of compassion and love. I like to think it's because so many Mississippians have…
August 16, 2006
I've flown to Chicago twice in a month to give writing workshops at Northwestern's journalism school, and each time I've been swept up in a wave of compassion and love. I like to think it's because so many Mississippians have…
[Greggs] As I Lay Tanning
by Ali Greggs
August 16, 2006
Saturday afternoon I spent most of the day lying beside a pool, holding a pina colada and desperately wishing I was near a beach.
Fortification Street seemed about as close as I could get. I drove…
August 16, 2006
Saturday afternoon I spent most of the day lying beside a pool, holding a pina colada and desperately wishing I was near a beach.
Fortification Street seemed about as close as I could get. I drove…
[Stiggers] Church Pianists Gone Bad
by Ken Stiggers
August 16, 2006
Boneqweesha Jones: "This is Boneqweesha on the scene for Ghetto Science News, bringing you live coverage of the seizure of Crunchie Burga World by disgruntled customer and retired jazz/funk pianist 'Coal Black' Walker.
August 16, 2006
Boneqweesha Jones: "This is Boneqweesha on the scene for Ghetto Science News, bringing you live coverage of the seizure of Crunchie Burga World by disgruntled customer and retired jazz/funk pianist 'Coal Black' Walker.
[Letters] No. 48 August 16 - 23
An Open Letter to Mayor Melton and City Council
It is 11:01 p.m., Aug. 4, 2006—that makes it about two hours ago that I was mugged on Morningside Drive in Belhaven Heights, about two blocks from my house on the way to get a pint at Fenian's…
It is 11:01 p.m., Aug. 4, 2006—that makes it about two hours ago that I was mugged on Morningside Drive in Belhaven Heights, about two blocks from my house on the way to get a pint at Fenian's…
[Publisher’s Note] Jackson’s PR Problem, Part Two
by Todd Stauffer
August 9, 2006
As I read Clarion-Ledger Executive Editor Ronnie Agnew's recent opinion piece, "Law Firm, CPA Move Just Plain Business," it occurred to me that his column seemed to be missing a word.
Agnew wrote about the announcement by…
August 9, 2006
As I read Clarion-Ledger Executive Editor Ronnie Agnew's recent opinion piece, "Law Firm, CPA Move Just Plain Business," it occurred to me that his column seemed to be missing a word.
Agnew wrote about the announcement by…
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