Several media outlets are putting their combined muscle together in a federal civil action regarding the 2007 settlement in the case of State Farm Insurance vs. Attorney General Jim Hood. Jackson New Media, Inc., publisher of the Y’all Politics blog, filed to unseal the settlement yesterday, and three TV stations filed joinder motions to intervene: WLBT in Jackson, WLOX in Biloxi and WDAM in Hattiesburg.
Y’all Politics put it this way:
Today, the Obama administration’s plan to reduce greenhouse emissions and lower America’s dependence on fossil fuels will come under intense Congressional scrutiny. With more than 50 witnesses scheduled to provide their expert opinions on the legislation, partisan pundits are already screeching their opinions in whatever format will hear them.
Federally run “big gorilla” mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will pay out $210 million in retention bonuses over the next 18 months, reports Times Online. Between them, the two companies reported $108 billion in losses last year, and Congress is allocating $200 billion of taxpayer money to bail them out of the hole they dug for themselves.
Fannie Mae's disclosure last month that it planned to pay almost $5 million in bonuses to its top four executives riled lawmakers, who were ... read on »
WAPT is reporting that the controversial photos of Jackson Mayor Frank Melton with a bevy of bikini-clad girls are on the up and up.
The pictures were taken by professional photographer Daren Gray, of Atlanta. They show Jackson's mayor posing with three provocatively dressed women in front of his Chrysler 300. Gray said the pictures were taken over a year ago for a car magazine named Spare Dime. But he recently posted two of them to his Jackson Free Press Lounge List Web site, he said, by ... read on »
Necessity, goes the cliché, is the mother of invention.
So where do unemployed cowgirls go to find a job? Texas is one obvious answer. And how do cowgirls get to Texas? They ride their horses, of course.
If that sounds like a bad joke, Donna Byrne would disagree. Byrne and her two horses, Jay and Tonto, left Florida after Byrne lost her job and then her house in Florida, reports The Tampa Tribune.
Communities for a Clean Bill of Health says that Mississippians can be instrumental in reviving the cigarette tax increase for this session.
According to a release, your calls today to Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant, and to your Senator and Representative, will set the stage for another round of negotiations on the tax, and will support a bipartisan group of state legislators who petitioned to revive HB 364.
On Wednesday, The New York Times featured Felder Rushing, local horticulturist extraordinaire and host of Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s “The Gestalt Gardener,” in a piece titled “Slow, Easy, Cheap and Green.”
Rushing … sat in his lush front garden on a chair made of recycled bike tires. In the distance, a mower could be heard running at a neighbor’s home, a low buzz cutting through the quiet.
Community Animal Rescue & Adoption, or CARA, is in deseprate need for dog food (or the funds to buy food) for the hundreds of pups in their shelter. CARA is the only no-kill shelter in the Jackson area, and one of only two in all of Mississippi.
"In addition to everyone's life at home, it seems current economic conditions are greatly affecting operations at the shelter. The donations of food we normally receive from stores and companies are greatly reduced, and we are in dire need of food for ... read on »
The JFP has received the following e-mail about a Jackson family in need:
"The Ishakarahs, a local family of grassroots/ community artists, recently sustained major fire damage to their home on Capitol Street. In short, they are living without electricity. They need our help with electrical service restoration and permit costs.
[verbatim] Foreclosure prevention is one of several issues being addressed during the Mississippi Center for Justice FREE legal clinic on tap at the Jackson Medical Mall Thad Cochran Center on Thursday, March 19th from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.
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