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Business
Caesars Launching Sports Betting in New Jersey, Mississippi
Two Atlantic City casinos owned by Caesars Entertainment will start taking sports bets this week, and another two in Mississippi will do so in mid-August.
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Politics
Mississippi Auditor to Resign, Run State Veterans Agency
Mississippi state Auditor Stacey Pickering is resigning his statewide elected post to become head of the state's Veterans Affairs Board.
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National
Senate Confirms Christopher Wray, Trump's Choice for FBI
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Christopher Wray to lead the FBI, replacing James Comey, who was abruptly fired by President Donald Trump amid the investigation into Russia meddling in last …
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Education
Some on Mississippi School Board Seek to Run New District
Some members of Mississippi's state Board of Education want direct control over a statewide school district that will take charge of faltering local schools and districts.
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Invest in Meaningful Workforce Training
Mississippi House Seaker Phillip Gunn, an attorney at one of the Jackson's largest law firms, quipped this week that he recently had to call a plumber to his Clinton home. …
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Legislature, If You Care About Kids, Prove It
With the large corporate incentive package behind us that will, hopefully, create jobs down the road, it's time for legislators to start working on more pressing issues, including how the …
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Clinton Proposes Plan to Address Mental Health Treatment
Hillary Clinton is rolling out a comprehensive plan to address millions of Americans coping with mental illness, pointing to the need to fully integrate mental health services into the nation's …
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Mississippi’s ‘Frivolous’ Lawsuit Conundrum
In one of the poorest states in the nation, litigating cases in the name of religious freedom or conservative idealism is costly.
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Full Funding Would Give All Schools a ‘Choice’
It can be hard to determine the motives of those who push for "school choice." After all, it can be difficult to distill what proponents of school choice, a movement …
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Person of the Day
Chung-Fan Chang
Growing up, paintings and decorations from western and eastern masters surrounded Jackson artist Chung-Fan Chang in her home in Taiwan.
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Japan PM to Make Historic Address to Congress, Talk Trade
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will seek support for a trans-Pacific trade pact that has divided U.S. lawmakers as he makes the first address by a Japanese leader to a joint …
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Temporary Hospital Headed to Miss. After Tornado
A mobile disaster hospital is on its way from North Carolina to Louisville, Mississippi, to help fill the gap after Monday's tornado heavily damaged Winston County's only hospital, a nursing …
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Jacksonian
Daphne R. Chamberlain
Even though she was born a generation after the murder that galvanized the Civil Rights Movement in 1955, Daphne R. Chamberlain considers herself a member of the Emmett Till Generation.
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The Jail Needs a Sense of Urgency
Crime is a hard thing to solve. It is the tragic confluence of poverty and generations of miseducation, not to mention institutional racism, patriarchy, childhood abuse and other structural biases. …
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Running with the Young Guns
I just typed "04" in the date for this file and then corrected myself. It's that time of year again. After our week off for the holidays, we're back and …
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The Best in Sports in 7 Days
Doctor S sez: College basketball is winding down to clear the way for MLB's Boys of Summer.
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[Balko] Failing Upward in Criminal Justice
When the SWAT team came for Richard Paey in 1997, officers battered down the front door of the Florida home he shared with his wife and their two children. Paey …
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A Part of the Community
Kismet's (315 Crossgates Blvd., Brandon, 601-825-8380) is more than just a place to eat. At some point the simple gyro shop became a part of the community.
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Hitched
Wedding P's and Q's from the Experts
If you're planning a wedding and don't have the slightest clue about wedding do's and don'ts, let the experts guide you for your important day. Here are the top-10 wedding …
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GOP May Oppose Court-ordered Maps
The Mississippi Republican Party likely will contest a three-judge panel's decision to impose the Mississippi House of Representatives' redistricting map as the official House election map for 2011.
