President Bush must give a difficult "State of the Union" tonight to a nation that has turned against his policies. Please join us here at the JFP to blog it live. The New York Times is reporting:
arrying some of the worst public approval ratings of any president in a generation, President Bush is heading into his State of the Union address on Tuesday night seeking to revitalize his domestic agenda but facing stiff resistance over the initiatives the White House has previewed so far. Administration officials said Monday that among Mr. Bush’s proposals would be a plan to help states provide health care coverage to people who lack insurance by diverting federal aid from hospitals, especially public institutions. The provision is likely to draw loud criticism from municipalities across the nation and will significantly affect the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, the nation’s largest municipal health care system.
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Saints Day on Radio JFP!
Join Todd Stauffer at noon today on WLEZ, 103.9, for the weekly Radio JFP variety hour. Today, JFP sports columnist Matt Hinton joins the program to talk about dem-damned-Saints mania. Donna Ladd and Brian Johnson will be on hand to discuss the week's news. And we'll be playing local music, and talking about our fifth annual Best of Jackson party Sunday at Mardi Gras—which will be open to the general public for the first time this year, starting at 8 p.m., following an invite-only VIP reception.
Update: Podcast available on the flip.
by ladd on 01/19/07 at 10:57 AM Comments (16) -- Read More...
Monticello Mayor Speaks Out Against ‘Two Lake’
In response to The Clarion-Ledger's huge package of stories last weekend overwhelmingly in favor of the LeFleur Lakes development plan (including an odd pro-pro pair of columns), Monticello Mayor Dave Nichols II wrote the paper in protest, bringing up a vital point too little discussed by the developers:
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by ladd on 01/19/07 at 10:22 AM Comments (39) -- Read More...
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Attorney Chokwe Lumumba Re-instated
The Associated Press is reporting that the Mississippi Supreme Court has voted 8-1 to re-instate controversial attorney Chokwe Lumumba. Here's a JFP news story with relevant context, and an opinion piece against his disbarment.
by ladd on 01/18/07 at 05:04 PM Comments (24) -- Read More...
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Hell Freezes Over
by Matt HintonJanuary 17, 2007
Deuce McAllister won’t “run it up in there,” my dad likes to say. Or so said an opposing coach, he claims, debating the last position for the Magnolia squad in the 1997 Mississippi-Alabama All-Star Classic. The Morton High back eventually made the team and saw the ball maybe twice amid a collection of more hyped pass-and-catch stars headlined by Romaro Miller. Miller set a Classic record by attempting 34 passes, but Mississippi lost, 10-6.
by Matt Hinton on 01/17/07 at 04:00 PM Comments (1) -- Read More...
Obama Is In the Race … or Almost
He has launched his new presidential exploratory Web site, where you can read a transcript, or watch a video, of Obama explaining why he is (almost) in the race:
But challenging as they are, it's not the magnitude of our problems that concerns me the…
by ladd on 01/16/07 at 01:13 PM Comments (99) -- Read More...
But challenging as they are, it's not the magnitude of our problems that concerns me the…
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Blog/Read Verbatim ‘State of the State’ at StateDesk
Right now, head over to StateDesk. We've just posted the full speech verbatim, so you can read along and comment as Gov. Barbour reads his speech. It's also live on MPB right now.
by ladd on 01/15/07 at 07:13 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
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Bush’s Version of Iraq Ignores Facts
Mark Seibel, the head of international coverage for McClatchy news service, published a detailed piece this weekend dissecting how the Bush administration—especially Bush, Secretary of State Condaleeza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley—is playing fast and loose with the facts in their latest push to ramp up the war in Iraq:
President Bush and his aides, explaining their reasons for sending more American troops to Iraq, are offering an incomplete, oversimplified and possibly untrue version of events there that raises new questions about the accuracy of the administration's statements about Iraq. [...]
Much like the administration's prewar claims about Saddam Hussein's alleged ties to al Qaeda and purported nuclear-weapons program, the claims about the bombing of the Shiite mosque in Samarra ignore inconvenient facts and highlight questionable but politically useful assumptions.
See the piece for specifics.
by ladd on 01/15/07 at 12:37 PM Comments (25) -- Read More...
President Bush and his aides, explaining their reasons for sending more American troops to Iraq, are offering an incomplete, oversimplified and possibly untrue version of events there that raises new questions about the accuracy of the administration's statements about Iraq. [...]
Much like the administration's prewar claims about Saddam Hussein's alleged ties to al Qaeda and purported nuclear-weapons program, the claims about the bombing of the Shiite mosque in Samarra ignore inconvenient facts and highlight questionable but politically useful assumptions.
See the piece for specifics.
by ladd on 01/15/07 at 12:37 PM Comments (25) -- Read More...
Honoring Dr. King: Toward Justice in Mississippi
Jacksonian Martha Bergmark, who runs the Mississippi Center for Justice here, has an inspiring call to action (especially for social-justice attorneys) printed at MSNBC.com/Newsweek today, in honor of Dr. King's birthday today:
On the Mississippi coast today, 92,000 people are still living in FEMA trailers.…
by ladd on 01/15/07 at 12:22 PM Comments (18) -- Read More...
On the Mississippi coast today, 92,000 people are still living in FEMA trailers.…
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BREAKING: Chemical Spill at Coast DuPont Plant
Just in, via e-mail from the Coast/verbatim: Just news HUGE toxic release at DuPont DeLISLE. If you know anyone who lives near, tell them to GET OUT!! (Or decide to shelter in place you are far enough away) It is a release of titanium tetrachloride. They are talking about shutting down the interstate. Beware of fog…it maybe the DuPont release inside it. It is a corrosive gas. BEWARE OF FOG!!! It could mask the titanium tetrachloride!!
The Sun Herald site confirms the spill.
by ladd on 01/15/07 at 11:37 AM Comments (1) -- Read More...
The Sun Herald site confirms the spill.
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