Take a Stand on Violence
This week, the Center for Violence Prevention will announce a new paradigm for curbing domestic violence in the Jackson area, bringing the Duluth Model to the metropolitan area. Batterer's intervention …
Enforce the Smoking Ban
On Feb. 1, 2009, a smoking ban went into effect for the city's restaurants. After an initial flurry of objections, the air in most of city's restaurants and clubs became …
Support State Watchdog Agencies
Last week, the Mississippi Senate shut down talks with House conferees over the funding of the Mississippi Public Service Commission.
Fend Off the Alligators
When hungry alligators surround you, so the joke goes, you might forget that your objective is to drain the swamp.
Call A Special Session, Barbour
The budget wars between the two chambers of the state Legislature are nothing new.
Transparency Means Transparency
Well, we tried.
Organizers of a event heralded as a unity event for Mayor-elect Johnson barred cameras at the last minute. This was a mistake and a signal to Johnson to ensure transparency.
'First 48': This is Transparency?
Jackson's legal department is putting the finishing touches on a contract with the Arts & Entertainment Network reality cop show, "The First 48." The show, which makes docu-dramas out of …
Taxpayers Deserve to See Pearl Study
In 2003, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Rankin-Hinds Pearl River Flood and Drainage Control District agreed to begin a three-year feasibility study to update the cost …
Jackson: Unite on June 2
Division in the city heavily affected both the Democratic mayoral primary and the runoff. It is time to put division aside and turn out June 2 to support the presumptive …
Editorial
Break the Cycle
What is it about elections that turns ordinarily sane people into back-stabbing, devious, scheming liars?
Amend Senate Bill 3268
In March, Mississippi legislators passed Senate Bill 3268, which allows municipalities to raise certain sales taxes by 1 percent to pay for police and fire protection, and road, water and …
Put Jackson First
When the Jackson Free Press editorial board met with mayoral candidates last week, we asked each candidate roughly the same questions based on a list we had compiled beforehand. But …
Know Your Limitations
The elections are well underway, and the plate is piling high with campaign promises, in both the council and mayoral races. There are good, noble, smart campaign priorities out there.
Know Your Options
Almost every day, Jackson voters can hear and question the candidates who will be making decisions on their behalf in the upcoming months and years.
Work For Our Votes
Reader reactions to a pair of unpaid, uncommissioned polls by political consulting firm Zata|3 have revealed an unsavory aspect of our political system: Attack the messenger, ignore the message.
Do Your Jobs, Legislators
Mississippi lawmakers didn't even pretend to try to get their jobs done within the parameters set by the state Constitution this year. Instead, a week or so before their 90-day …
Entering Year Seven
The economy has eclipsed almost everything these days, including the fact that last Friday marked the sixth anniversary of the Iraq war, a war this paper opposed since the week …
Protect Justice in Mississippi
Gov. Haley Barbour and Mississippi's legislators have several opportunities this session to provide measures of justice to its citizens.
Cap the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Two recent reports, one from the ACLU and one from the Pew Center on the States, highlight and then double-underscore the problem of what experts have dubbed the "school-to-prison" or …
Barbour's Ambitious Posturing
Gov. Haley Barbour has been a vociferous opponent of the Obama administration's stimulus package, especially when it comes to accepting the $2.3 billion allocated to Mississippi.
