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Biz Roundup
Food Trucks, Grants and a Winter Wonderland
BankPlus and Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas presented two Jackson organizations with $4,000 grants.
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Youth Rally for Justice
On a drizzling Martin Luther King Day morning, students, parents and advocates marched onto the Capitol's south steps to call for educational reform and protest the incarceration of more than …
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MDOC Sticks with Private Prisons
Sometime between the 8:45 p.m. and the 9:15 p.m. staff shift change on July 30, 2010, Tracy Alan Province, John Charles McCluskey and Daniel Kelly Renwick escaped from Arizona State …
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U.S. House to Consider FISA Bill Sans Telco Immunity
The bill is coming out of committee in the House and should get a floor vote this afternoon. It grants the president many of the powers he wants for roving …
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Update: ‘Jena 6' Sentence Overturned
Update: Today a Louisiana appeals court overturned the conviction of Mychal Bell, one of the "Jena 6" who were facing severe charges for their end of a racially tinged feud …
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Young, Impressive, Ours
When freelance writer Greg Pigott turned in his write-up of Mark Scott of Callaway High School for this "Amazing Teens" issue, he wrote: "I wish I had more words to …
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Anchorage Daily: Palin Embarrassing Alaska
Writing in response to Sarah Palin's proclamation that the damning Troopergate report "vindicates" her, the Anchorage Daily News editorial board hands their governor her ass on a platter, and calls …
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Getting Rid of Stuff the Green Way
So you want to get rid of your stuff. What options do you have to give your discards a second life?
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[Editor's Note] Young, Impressive, Ours
When freelance writer Greg Pigott turned in his write-up of Mark Scott of Callaway High School for this "Amazing Teens" issue, he wrote: "I wish I had more words to …
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Saturday With Maury
Maury Wills, the 1962 National League Most Valuable Player, came to Jackson June 6, 2003, 44 years to the day after he was called up to the major leagues. He …
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Health Care
Unvaccinated Medical Workers Turn to Religious Exemptions
Religious exemptions are increasingly becoming a workaround for unvaccinated hospital and nursing home workers who want to keep their jobs in the face of federal mandates that are going into …
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Obama Clashes with African Host over Gay Rights
"We are still not ready to decriminalize homosexuality," Senegalese President Macky Sall said.
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Feature
Making Solutions to Poverty Stick
It is easy to desire to help someone escape poverty, but it is harder than it might seem because they have to ultimately do it themselves.
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Health Care
Why You Should Care About the Drugs Your Doctor Prescribes
For most of us, evaluating a doctor's prescribing habits is just about impossible. Even doctors themselves have little way of knowing whether their drug choices fall in line with those …
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Politics
UPDATED: After JFP Query, Child Protection Agency Says PEER Miscalculated Data
PEER, a legislative committee intended to improve the "economy, efficiency, effectiveness and accountability" of state agencies, found in its annual review of MDCPS that the turnover rate rose from 21% …
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Crime
Curtis Flowers Released on Bail from Parchman for First Time Since 1997
Curits Flowers will leave Mississippi's Parchman prison and return home for the first time in more than two decades after Montgomery County Circuit Judge Joseph Loper granted him a $250,000 …
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National
Trump Pressed Aides on Venezuela Invasion, US Official Says
As a meeting last August in the Oval Office to discuss sanctions on Venezuela was concluding, President Donald Trump turned to his top aides and asked an unsettling question: With …
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City & County
Plugging Kids into Mental Health
NFusion Metro is a community-based mental-health-care program primarily for ages 11 to 18 years old in the Jackson area. During the summer, counselors are doing themed weeks for their lesson …
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City & County
Jackson Still Upbeat on Capitol Agenda
Part of Walter Zinn's job, as director of governmental affairs for Jackson, is lobbying for the interests of the capital city in the state Legislature, which can be frustrating.
