Wellness
Yoga for Sleep
This is part two in an instructional yoga series, each part focused on yoga positions for different purposes.
Girl About Town
Of Beer and Building Community
The owners of Lucky Town Brewery explained how they want to be part of the regrowth of midtown at a community meeting at CS’s.
Hitched
Wedding Day, the Kid-Friendly Way
Incorporating kids into a wedding day can be a touching gesture, but it isn’t for everyone.
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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 …
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Vision 2022: A Regional Vision
The greater metropolitan area of Jackson is a collection of loosely aligned, often-at-odds cities, towns and communities worthy of a university-sanctioned study on diversity and race politics.
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Green Space
If you want to see how differently various people approach the idea of planning for Jackson's future, listen to a discussion of parks and green space.
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Big Ideas: Getting Jacksonians into City Parks
Mayor Chokwe Lumumba's Parks and Rec Transition Team compiled the following suggestions to get more residents into Jackson Parks and Recreation Department (PRD) facilities throughout the city.
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Revisited: Town Creek
Many see Jackson's multiple creeks as nothing more than drainage ditches. They are undevelopable space offering only the threat of flooding, bank caving and snakes. Other cities, however, are increasingly …
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 …
New Idea: More Than Sports
When Jed Oppenheim of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Mississippi Youth Justice Project ended up as a "quasi-member" of Mayor Chokwe Lumumba's Parks and Rec transition team, he decided to …
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Bright Idea: Conserve Energy, Create Jobs
You want to reduce your energy bills, improve your in-home air quality, increase the value of your home and help create jobs in the local community? Then invest in energy-efficiency …
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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 …
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 …
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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.
