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by Adam Lynch
May 7, 2008
A U.S. Supreme Court decision last month could add weight to Mississippi Republicans’ call for voters to present photo ID at the polls. Mississippi has had an ongoing battle between voter ID proponents and critics, with Republicans generally favoring voter…
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by Adam Lynch
May 9, 2008
Former Mississippi Sen. Mike Gunn has caught the interest of the national Humane Society after allegedly killing baby geese in his gas grill April 25. A neighbor spied the former Republican legislator and tobacco lobbyist allegedly catching seven goslings and…
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by Adam Lynch
May 7, 2008
Garrett Enterprises owner Socrates Garrett said his company and subcontractors have already removed more than half the debris lining the streets after tornado winds tore through the Jackson area last month.
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by Ronni Mott
May 7, 2008
Sybil Cheesman expected to stay in Jackson only four or five years. “That’s the longest I’d ever lived in one place,” she says. Thirty-six years later, Cheesman has played her flute in the “Pepsi Pops” concerts since the first event.…
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by Darren Schwindaman
May 7, 2008
Andy Scissorhands stepped back from his opponent. Standing between him and the Mississippi state championship of Rock Paper Scissors was a no-nonsense girl who had won the first of three rounds in the semi-final match. He slowly turned his baseball…
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by Adam Lynch
April 30, 2008
A spokesman for U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson’s office said a more thorough preliminary damage assessment might have prevented the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s initial rejection of Gov. Haley Barbour’s petition for federal damage assistance for storm damage in Hinds County.
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by Adam Lynch
April 30, 2008
There’s just no pleasing some people. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s tort-reform lobbying arm, the “Institute for Legal Reform,” released a report last Wednesday ranking Mississippi as the 48th worst “legal climate” in the country.
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by Donna Ladd
April 30, 2008
He-Said-Bimbo-Said
Sometimes life has a way of spiraling in on itself. Last week, I was asked to speak about advanced reporting and media ethics during Journalism Week at Ole Miss. Apropos to both topics, I spoke on the “myth of objectivity,” among other things. I zeroed in on the problem of he-said-she-said journalism, where an important story and its facts and context get lost (or left out) in a battle of sound bites between two “sides” or, more likely, “spokesmen” with polar-opposite agendas. So “objectivity” ends up as opinion-vs.-opinion, and neither is very enlightening.
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by Ronni Mott
April 30, 2008
The number of binge drinkers in Misssissippi is significantly lower than the national average, state residents are pretty good about wearing seatbelts, and we are third in the nation for the number of beds in community hospitals in the state.…
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by Adam Lynch
April 23, 2008
Opponents and supporters of the $220 million Yazoo Backwater Area Project spoke out at a public hearing in Vicksburg last Thursday. The project, which involves installing a huge pumping station to drain 66,945 acres of Delta wetlands, horrifies many environmentalists,…
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The Jackson Zoo and members of the community mourned the death of its week-old female giraffe calf Sunday morning. Born on May 5, the newborn was a little underweight, but director of marketing and public relations, Christopher Mims said that she had gained at least five pounds by Saturday.
“We were pleased with its progress, so it was quite a shock Sunday to come in,” Mims said.
Jackson Zoo’s consulting veterinarian Dr. Rodney Walker diagnosed the 87-pound calf with weak flexor tendons in its hind legs last week after staff members noticed the giraffe standing oddly.
A necropsy has been performed on the calf, but zoo personnel still await a pathologist’s results. The calf had not been named, yet; the zoo was planning to hold a naming contest.
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by Adam Lynch
May 7, 2008
Back in the 1990s, “Miami Vice” didn’t have a lot on the Charitable Enforcement Division of the Mississippi Gaming Commission—even if the “vice” the agency was busting was less sexy than Colombian drug lords.
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May 10, 2008[Gig] 'Let's Do This'
L.W.: I agree about the mind games. My mind has always been in better shape than this awkward frame of mine.
May 10, 2008
Dirty Debris?
L.W.: We now have two messes - the storm debris and the way this contract has been handled.
May 10, 2008
[Gig] 'Let's Do This'
Herman Snell: Seeing how they use the mind games is fun to watch. People wearing shirts that say "Throw Scissors" is just the start. The folks that are really good really start out from the novice in an uncanney ...
May 10, 2008
I Hate Geeses to Pieces
L.W.: In the words of Daffy Duck, that is despicable. What did those little baby birds ever do to him?
May 10, 2008
[Dish] Music, Fireworks, Bugs, Oh My
L.W.: I hope I can make it to Pepsi Pops one day. I've never been before.
May 10, 2008
[Gig] 'Let's Do This'
L.W.: Maybe I should take up this sport. Finally something I could possibly win at!
May 08, 2008
[Gig] 'Let's Do This'
Herman Snell: Awesome! The first time I saw the National RPS championship on ESPN it rocked by world. Cheese is taken to high art in so much fun, its great.
Awesome egos and superhero costumes. Lots of fun.
May 07, 2008
Berry Killed on His Birthday?
willdufauve: Simplistic, black white thinking and approaches to social problems like the death penalty, the drug war, and zero tolerance concepts, don't work. Humans and societies are much more nuanced ...
May 07, 2008
Berry Killed on His Birthday?
Ronni M: We need to fix the justice system before we can figure out how to punish these people.
Exactly, Queen. That and figure out how to prevent people from becoming criminals in the first place. That ...
May 07, 2008
Berry Killed on His Birthday?
Queen601: I don't think this one this will ever get a definete answer to should we or should we not. I don't think saying no one deserves the death penalty takes away from the magnitude of the crime. Not ...