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subSIPPI: Capturing the Zeitgeist
For the last year, three 20-somethings have traveled the state seeking to peel back the layers of Mississippi cultures.
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MS Coverage Under Obamacare May Be as low as $8/month
By RonniMottMississippi health-insurance rates could be as low as $8 a month after tax credits.
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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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Food
Hunter-Gatherer
People are going back to their "hunter-gatherer" roots and attempting to emulate caveman eating habits. This growing lifestyle trend is called the paleo—short for paleolithic—diet.
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Robert St. John: The Unlikely Chef
To say Robert St. John is modest about what led to his success is to put it lightly. The Hattiesburg, Miss., native insists he "sort of fell backward" into the …
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Premiums Unveiled for Health Overhaul Plans
With new health insurance markets launching next week, the Obama administration is unveiling premiums and plan choices for 36 states where the federal government is taking the lead to cover …
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Fear of Humanitarian Disaster in Syria
Syrian opposition groups and international relief organizations are warning of the risk of mass starvation across the country, especially in the besieged Damascus suburbs where a gas attack killed hundreds …
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Is This What The Water Will Look Like?
By Todd StaufferIn WAPT's online video they don't identify the Jackson-area creek (is it Town Creek?) that turned into a "raging river" after today's rains, but one look at the video does force me to wonder out loud about the water quality of any lakes or riverwalk projects that we end up developing for downtown Jackson.
Jackson has many impermeable surfaces with oil, grit and other residue (not to mentioned trash, street drainage, etc.) that rush off to the creeks and Pearl.
I don't know the answer, but this visual at least suggests it would make sense to ask the question. Does still water somehow run cleaner? Am I judging this murky mess too harshly?
ON one had, the Pearl often looks pretty when you glance at it over the Lakeland bridge, and I've canoed it in the past and felt the water was clear and clean.
But the video doesn't make it this creek water look too appealing. Any river geeks have thoughts?
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Kenyan President: Terrorists Defeated
The terrorists who took control of a Nairobi mall and held off Kenyan security forces for four days have been defeated after killing at least 67 civilians and government troops, …
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Biz Roundup
Pushlocal, Yokohama and DOR Services
Jackson Free Press and Dollars & Sense Consulting will hold their first "Pushlocal Breakfast and Learn" at Sal and Mookie's New York Pizza and Ice Cream Joint this Thursday, Sept. …
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Miss. Lawmakers Face Long Budget Writing Process
Now that budget hearings are over, Mississippi lawmakers face a long process of deciding how to spend tax dollars for fiscal 2015, which begins July 1.
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Obama Takes on Coal with First-Ever Carbon Limits
Linking global warming to public health, disease and extreme weather, the Obama administration pressed ahead Friday with tough requirements to limit carbon pollution from new power plants, despite protests from …
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Health Care
White House Pushes Back Against Fraud Fears Of Obamacare Opponents
The White House on Wednesday unveiled several steps to protect consumers from fraud in the new online health insurance marketplaces, a move that comes after 17 states hostile to the …
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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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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 …
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Jackson Planning Map
Jackson is a unique city with great potential. What makes this city great are her people, their passions and their visions.
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Candidate
McQuirter: Planting the Seeds
Darrel McQuirter, a Hinds County department head who took a leave of absence to run for the District 2 supervisor's seat, is putting his job on the line because he …
