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[Balko] How to Record the Cops
This summer the issue of recording on-duty police officers has received a great deal of media attention.
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JackBlog Goes Live
After a weekend of database spelunking, we've gotten JackBlog up and running...old hands around here will note that the names and faces of the innocent haven't been changed...this is simply …
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Editor's Note
The Permission to Care Deeply
With the legislative season coming to a close, those of us who spend a lot of time championing progress for Jackson and Mississippi have had a tough go of it.
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Barbour to Challenge Health Care Reform
Gov. Haley Barbour yesterday asked Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood to challenge the constitutionality of the health-care reform legislation passed by the U.S. Congress on Sunday. If Hood refuses to …
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Digital Divide
As omnipresent as the Internet has become in most people's lives, the "digital divide" separating those with regular, fast Internet access and those without persists. By the mid-1990s, the "digital …
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Ways to Give
Not everyone in Jackson experiences a merry and bright holiday season. Here are a couple local charities who need your donations to help those in need.
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[Lott] Big Media Lose, Consumers Win
The federal 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a challenge by consumer groups to rules proposed by the Federal Communications Commission, which would have allowed more cross ownership of …
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Barksdale Offers JPS ‘The Price of Eggs' for Supe Search
Jim Barksdale, former president and CEO of Netscape, has officially offered the school board financial assistance to hire and retain the best superintendent that money can buy.
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[Column] A Jobs Crisis We Can Solve
President Obama is proposing important steps toward doing what Americans have been asking for since the financial collapse of 2008--putting a focus on families and jobs.
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JPS Budget Full of Unknowns
With all the attention surrounding Superintendent Lonnie Edwards' departure from Jackson Public Schools last week, one could be forgiven for missing the district's budget passage for the 2011-2012 school year.
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Talk
Hood v. Entergy
Attorney General Jim Hood won a small victory in U.S. District Court last month, with the court deciding to deny Entergy's attempt to block Hood from obtaining internal records regarding …
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State Forces Farish Apartments
Performa Entertainment Real Estate Inc., the developer that turned the Beale Street District of Memphis into a jazzy powerhouse of capitalism, is likely to buy property along Farish Street with …
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JFP ‘Best of Jackson' Challenge: Give Back, and Shop Local!
Now that the 7th annual (really!) Best of Jackson season has ended, and the party a sweet memory, here's what all of us can do next. We need to vow …
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Judge Blocks Entergy's Efforts To Conceal Records
[Verbatim From AG's Office, Oct. 23, 2008] Jackson, MS--Today, United States District Judge William H. Barbour denied Entergy's attempt to stop Attorney General Hood from seeking to obtain records of …
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Butch Bailey
Butch Bailey thinks Mississippians are missing out on something divine: gourmet beer.
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Biz Roundup: Doing Good
Mary Amelia McRee had been renovating houses in the Belhaven area for several years when a house in Fondren, which had been for sale for a while, caught her eye. …
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SD College Tests Fingerprint Purchasing Technology
Futurists have long proclaimed the coming of a cashless society, where dollar bills and plastic cards are replaced by fingerprint and retina scanners smart enough to distinguish a living, breathing …
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[Wine] D.I.Y. Wine Tasting
It starts with the spark of an idea (usually over drinks) and involves 10 willing friends (who enjoy wine and its relaxing buzz). Invent a theme, grab some cocktail food …
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Books
Freaky and Bloody
Kaleidoscopes are usually made from simple, cheap and seemingly random ingredients: a cardboard tube or two, colored pebbles or painted rice grains and a few cut-rate mirrors. That's it, really. …
