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County Courts Get Funding Boost
Three Hinds County departments received a funding bump this morning. At its regular meeting, the Hinds County Board of Supervisors agreed to provide $95,000 this year to the offices of ...
Politics
Miss.'s New Gun Law: Good, Bad and Ugly
When a new law goes into effect on July 1, it's going to feel like the Wild West in Mississippi. Not only because the law permits individuals to carry guns ...
City & County
Fear Stymies HIV/AIDS Prevention
Othor Cain, chairman of the board of directors at Jackson-based HIV/AIDS nonprofit Grace House, pointed to the upward trend in HIV infection rates for men, particularly black men who have ...
Health Care
GOP’s Backdoor Embrace of Obamacare
The Republican Party, nationally and in Mississippi, has made sport of repudiating the federal health-care law.
Health Care
HIV/AIDS in Miss.: 'A Terrible Curse'
Being diagnosed with HIV is no longer the life sentence it was once was. But for those living with the virus in Mississippi, having HIV/AIDS remains a terrible curse, said ...
Health Care
Dems Offer Medicaid Deal; Bryant Rejects
Mississippi Democrats continue to extend olive branches to legislative Republicans to find ways to accept federal Medicaid money.
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Memories of Medgar
A week and a half before he met his fate outside his family's Jackson home, Medgar Evers, the Mississippi field secretary for the National Association of Colored People, said if ...
Justice
Lawsuit Puts Prison Mental Health in Focus
Victor Voe warned them: "Don't let them kill me. I be hearing them say they going to kill me. I am hearing voices that others don't hear."
City & County
The Press and Politicians
Over the weekend, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni wrote about politicians' new "controlled and controlling approach" for talking to voters.
Justice
Mississippi Sued Again for Prison Conditions
A rat infestation at Meridian's East Mississippi Correctional Facility has gotten so bad that some of the prisoners have adopted the disease-carrying vermin as pets, sometimes taking them on walks ...
Blog Entries
- Local Person Charged in 2nd Buttocks Injection Death
- Troubled Miss. Prison Gets New Warden
- It's Official: Flaggs is Outta Here
- MSGOP Issues Anti-Obamacare Resolution
- Mississippi Dems Hang on to Mayor Seats, Turn Others Blue
- Quentin Whitwell Running for Mayor 'On the Low'? 11 comments
- Bennie Thompson Backs Lumumba, Links Lee to GOP
- Gulf Biz Smacked with $1m Fine for Mucking Wetlands
- Lumumba's Close Call with Disbarment 3 comments
- More About Lumumba's Top Donors 1 comment
- Lessons from Last Night's Mayoral Whatever That Was 1 comment
- Where the Election Night Parties At?
- Who's Giving to Lumumba?
- Death Row Prisoner Manning Gets a Stay
- Procedure Set for Hinds Dist. 2 Special Election
- Is Miss. About to 'Lynch' an Innocent Man?
- Mississippi Denies Manning's Death Appeal
- I'm Tired of These Mothaflippin Snakes (and Exorbitant Copy Fees) in This Mothaflippin Clerk's Office!!! 3 comments
- The Big-Money GOP Donors at Gunn's Private Party
- Sen. Wicker Gets Toxic Letter 1 comment
- Miss. GOP Applauds Obama Medicaid Action
- Only Mississippian Convicted of Voter Fraud in Recent Memory Dies
- Some Dumbo Shot an Elephant in Tupelo
- On Final Day of Session, a Million Statements
- Ole Miss Dumps 'Col. Reb'; Students Predictably Outraged
- Charter School Bill Passes. What Took So Long?
- Fourth Time's A Charm for Death of Medicaid
- More Fallout from Tenn. Audit of JPS' Gray?
- Hello? Is it Me(dicaid) You're Looking for?
- Bryant Ed-Reform Bill Pwned by House
- DOR Not Coming to Downtown Jackson 3 comments
- Musgrove Declares Himself a LGBT Ally 1 comment
- Bryant Sits Down With Hospitals on Funding 1 comment
- Stewart Mans Up, Apologizes to Molpus
- Dems: GOP Tries 'Brinkmanship on Medicaid' 3 comments
- Why Did Johnny Lee Butts Die?
- Don't Mess With Miss. 1 comment
- Doug Anderson Resigns Hinds Board 1 comment
- Black and Brown Vote Suppression in Scott County?
- Assault Rifles: Only at Walmart 48 comments
- Meredith Denied Ole Miss Enrollment 50 Years Ago Today
- Diss by That Channel Your Cat Watches Draws Our Ire
- What's the Tea Party Sending JFP?
- Jesse Jackson Disses Sag Ban 1 comment
- Abortion Clinic Not on the 'Brink' of Closure 2 comments
- Death Rower's Reprieve Plea Denied
- A Condemned Man's Last Day...in a Press Release
- Utah Private Prison Firm Picks Up Mississippi Contracts
- Seven Dems Flip to GOP
- Feds Bust Pair for Hiring Undocumented Workers
- Gov. Bryant Signs Biz Bills
- Earle Banks to Run for State Supreme Court
- GOP Mad at Suggestion Mississippi is Anti-Gay
- Rev. Jesse Jackson an Honorary Hinds Deputy
- AG Lambastes Sunshine Bill
- House Unveils Voting Maps
- Another Charter Schools Bill Killed
- In 2-1 Vote, PSC Lets Kemper Move Forward
- Immigration Bill's Fate Rests with Senate Dem
- Arrest Made in JSU Student's Murder
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See the latest 100sarahmina Point well taken, EXCEPT, It wasnt meant to be taken literally but figuratively. What I was TRYING to convey was ...
June 19, 1:26 a.m. on Evers Gala Tops Off Jackson Events
Enlightened1 It is extremely sad and disheartening to read that this type of behavior is still taking place in 2013!!
June 18, 5:21 p.m. on Housing Crisis: Widespread Discrimination; Little Taste for Enforcement
bill_jackson Right. None of my guns have ever caused or attracted trouble, with the exception of my WW 2 rifles, which ...
June 18, 1:58 p.m. on Miss.'s New Gun Law: Good, Bad and Ugly
js1976 "Guns are nothing but magnets for trouble! PERIOD!" Sorry, but the gun I keep in my truck has never attracted ...
June 18, 1:35 p.m. on Miss.'s New Gun Law: Good, Bad and Ugly
Alamo_Shawn This is something I have been screaming about for a while now. Gov. Bryant gets on his box and says ...
June 18, 1:24 p.m. on A Dangerous Game
Stinker Quote of the Week: 'Blacker'
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