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Next JPD Chief Can Learn From Ferguson
The seeds of a Ferguson-type situation are firmly in place in Jackson. The search for a new police chief, however, presents an excellent opportunity for conversations about how to best …
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Civil Rights
One Night in Ferguson
Ferguson has drawn people from all over the country. A handful of people also reportedly flew in from overseas. I traveled to Ferguson with three activists from Jackson.
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Editor's Note
Time to Reset, White Folks
What's happening in Ferguson isn't pretty, but it had to happen: Police and everyday people cannot keep killing black people for minor, or no, crimes and expect our citizens of …
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Biz Roundup
NUTS Seeks Help, Lou's Comes to Belhaven and Kemper Begins Operations
NUTS (Neat Used Things for Sale), a fundraising store for the Good Samaritan Center located at 114 Millsaps Ave., sustained massive flood damage when more than a foot and a …
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Civil Rights
James Meredith Lauds Ferguson Protests as Vital to 'Black Race'
James Meredith, who is known for making provocative statements, said the Ferguson protests are more important historically than even the violence that erupted from his own admission to Ole Miss …
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Police Use Tear Gas in First Night of State-Imposed Curfew in Ferguson, Missouri
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The first night of a state-imposed curfew in Ferguson, Missouri, ended with tear gas and seven arrests, after police dressed in riot gear used armored vehicles …
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City & County
C.J. Lawrence
Defense attorney C.J. Lawrence's "#iftheygunnedmedown" turned into a worldwide call to awareness.
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Wellingtons Restaurant
From hiltonjackson.com: Wellingtons Restaurant is home to an extravagant Breakfast Buffet of over 100 items with an array of freshly prepared dishes. This breakfast is reminiscent of a brunch that you would find in a luxury resort but at one …
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Editor's Note
If They Gunned Me Down
To the best of my knowledge, I never met Michael Brown, but I know him well.
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Events
Jackson Rhythm & Blues Festival Artist Lineup
From Grammy-winning greats to jaw-dropping juniors, the biggest names in soul, blues and R&B love Mississippi.
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Biz Roundup
New Salvation Army Store, The Bleau Print Project
Marissa Simms, Mississippi's SBA Entrepreneur of the Year and the owner of Royal Bleau Boutique (1100 JR Lynch St., Suite 8), founded the Bleau Print Project to help cultivate entrepreneurship.
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Music
The Glorious Flight of Futurebirds
I'm no Roman general, but when Futurebirds swoops down on Jackson, I predict that everyone within earshot will have a good time.
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MS GOP Response to McDaniel: Er ... Try Court?
By Todd StaufferThe Mississippi Republican Party has responded to the McDaniel campaign in the form of a statement to the public and a letter to Chris McDaniel's attorney, Mitch Tyner, from Joe Nosef, MS GOP chairman. (Here's the letter in PDF format.)
The upshot is that the MS GOP is suggesting to Tyner that they go ahead and take their fight to court, in part because the MS GOP's executive committee would only have 24 hours starting Aug 13th (once the requisite seven days notice for a meeting was circulated) to figure out whether it makes sense to overturn a U.S. Senate primary result. That's just one day before McDaniel would be forced by law to go to court on Aug 14th.
So, they're punting. (Which sometimes makes sense on Fourth and Forever.)
Jackson, MS. –– Joe Nosef, Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, issued the following statement today regarding a challenge to the results of the June 24th primary runoff and a letter sent today by Chairman Nosef to Mitch Tyner, lawyer for the Chris McDaniel campaign:
"Our 52-member volunteer Republican State Executive Committee has been asked to spend just five hours listening to legal arguments and then overturn a United States Senate primary in which over 360,000 Mississippians cast votes.
It is neither prudent nor possible in a single day for any political committee to process and review the significant amount of complex evidence necessary to make such a decision, and attempting to do so would be prejudicial to both candidates.
Under these circumstances, the only way to ensure that the integrity of the Mississippi Republican Party and our election process remains intact is to have a proper, public review of this matter through the judicial system in a court of law. Both candidates have said they look forward to such a review, and now is the time. "
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Girl About Town
Best Exercise, Barre None
The small moves done in Pure Barre are intense but effective.
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City & County
Jackson A to Z: What to Know, Do, Drink, Visit ...
This list isn’t exhaustive! Visit jfpevents.com and jfp.ms/musiclistings for so many more events and venues. Jackson is what you make it, so make it amazing.
