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   April 17 All Editorial Cartoons
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Loving Jackson

If we really love Jackson, we need to trust Jackson to make its own decisions.

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Find Your Voice: Vote in the Runoff

Jackson is a city of around 100,000 registered voters, and roughly 30,000 voted in the primaries on May 7.

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Stinker Quote of the Week: 'Boggling'

The Mississippi Supreme Court granted Willie Jerome Manning a stay of execution after the Federal Bureau of Investigation twice admitted that investigators overstated the scientific significance of evidence during Manning's ...

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Let's Clean House

As we move forward as a city and a state, it's time we discussed the difference between blame and accountability.

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The Johnson Legacy

Voters have an interesting choice as they head to polls for the second time May 21 to cast ballots for the Democratic Party runoffs.

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Smiling in Heaven

My old friend Ray Smithhart would have loved the irony of union-fighting manufacturer Nissan making a gift of $100,000 to the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute.

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Jackson: Stop the Scorched-Earth Politics

Jackson city elections are not our city at its best. Inevitably, one or more candidates wage scorched-earth campaigns that make our city look like a hellhole.

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Stinker Quote of the Week: 'Dilatory'

An Oktibbeha County jury voted to execute Willie Jerome Manning for the 1992 murders of two Mississippi State University students based mostly on circumstantial evidence.

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Inebriated with Knowledge

Big Roscoe: "Customers, staff, Lil' Momma Roscoe and I enjoyed last week's Hot Wing Happy Hour at Clubb Chicken Wing. We had an around-the-bar discussion regarding history, politics, society, entertainment, ...

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The Hard Stuff

We have an amazing staff. And I don't just say because they work for me at the Jackson Free Press; I say it because of what they have to weather ...

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Seeing Signs

Keeping an eye and spirit open for universal signs of life has become like taking deep breaths for me. I started recognizing that nothing is by chance, and all things ...

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Doing Our Job

In the middle of crazy campaign coverage over the last week, we saw this quote posted on Facebook: "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else ...

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Stinker Quote of the Week: 'Germane'

First, if a person deigns to run for office—putting themselves in the public realm—that person should expect scrutiny in all aspects of their lives.

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Do Better, Jackson

When I became a feminist activist and a visible advocate for a woman's right to choose, I knew that I might lose a few friends in the process. Abortion has ...

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Re-elect Harvey Johnson Jr.

We liked the idea of new blood in city government in 2013. We are, therefore, both excited and encouraged by the prospect of a number of new, younger city council ...

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