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Education
What Mississippi's Lawmakers Are Proposing for Education
Lawmakers in Mississippi have proposed more than 200 education laws for the 2014 session, in what is poised to be the second consecutive legislative session with a heavy focus on ...
Best Practice: Mid-South Minority Business Council Continuum
"Established in 1973 as the Mid-South Minority Business Council (MMBC), a component of the Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce, the MMBC Continuum now serves as a minority business-development organization and ...
Feature
Jackson Planning Map
Jackson is a unique city with great potential. What makes this city great are her people, their passions and their visions.
National
Obama Administration Helped Kill Transparency Push on Military Aid
The U.S. spent roughly $25 billion last year on what's loosely known as security assistance, a term that can cover everything from training Afghan security forces to sending Egypt F-16 ...
Feature
Radical Idea: Vacancy Tax
So, just how do we unlock the empty buildings that are "warehoused" downtown by landlords, often absentee, who let their spaces rot waiting for the huge rent check of the ...
City & County
10 Local Stories of the Week
There's never a slow news week in Jackson, Miss., and last week was no exception. Here are the local stories JFP reporters brought you in case you missed them.
Defined: People's Assemblies
Mayor Chokwe Lumumba has helped bring a grass-roots approach to idea generation and decision-making to Jackson, both in the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, which he co-founded, and later as a ...
City & County
10 Local Stories of the Week
There's never a slow news week in Jackson, Miss., and last week was no exception. Here are the local stories JFP reporters brought you in case you missed them.
Wellness
Brain Attack: Surviving the Stroke Belt
Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States and often leads to long-term disability in adults.
Feature
Everyone Needs a Roof
You've heard it before: For many Americans, homelessness is just a couple of paychecks away.
Business
How to Improve Temp Worker Safety
The federal government could easily track injuries suffered by temporary workers by adding a checkbox to a government form that already exists. Such a move would give regulators the data ...
Cover
What Our City Needs
Anyone who has lived in Jackson for a while, and gotten involved even marginally in the community, knows that there is no shortage of ideas on how to improve our ...
City & County
10 Local Stories of the Week
There's never a slow news week in Jackson, Miss., and last week was no exception. Here are the local stories JFP reporters brought you in case you missed them.
Health Care
How Long Will You Wait at the Emergency Room?
In less urgent cases, patients arriving at the emergency room can wait for hours before seeing a doctor, receiving pain medication, having tests, or being admitted to the hospital.
City & County
10 Local Stories of the Week
There's never a slow news week in Jackson, Miss., and last week was no exception. Here are the local stories JFP reporters brought you in case you missed them.
City & County
10 Local Stories of the Week
There's never a slow news week in Jackson, Miss., and last week was no exception. Here are the local stories JFP reporters brought you in case you missed them.
Feature
What the Heck Is An IBA?
Sure, we have business organizations such as chambers of commerce, but they are not primarily and exclusively serving interests of small, locally owned businesses.
Art
Filling the Emptiness
When family or friends say Jackson is a bad place, I always want to take them on a trip to the city I've grown to know over the last six ...
City & County
10 Local Stories of the Week
There's never a slow news week in Jackson, Miss., and last week was no exception. Here are the local stories JFP reporters brought you in case you missed them.
Civil Rights
A Year Later, Feds Inch Forward on Fair Housing
Tonight's episode of "This American Life" will feature a story based on ProPublica's yearlong investigation "Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law."
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