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Best of Jackson
Best of Jackson 2014: Music & Nightlife
One might not expect Jackson to be home of a talented New Orleans-style brass band. But with influences including Rebirth Brass Band and Soul Rebels Brass Band—two influential groups from …
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Best of Jackson
Best of Jackson 2014: Community & Culture
Nate West and Tim Murphy can make a morning commute a lot more fun with the Showgram Show on Y101.
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Best of Jackson
Best of Jackson 2014: People
Jeff Good wears a lot of hats, sometimes literally, in the creative and colorful ads he stars in for the three restaurants he co-owns.
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Business
A Vision for Jackson’s Future
To be a competitive, thriving and, yes, happy city, Jackson needs to address two categories of infrastructure: the one that moves things between people, and the one that moves things …
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Politics
This Can’t Be Life
Every other week, Victoria Phillips drives three and a half hours from her Raleigh home to visit her husband, who is incarcerated at Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.
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City & County
Natural Gas: The Natural Choice?
The purchase of three new squad cars for the Jackson Police Department breezed through approval last month, but some city leaders are calling for the city to take a new …
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Politics
Model for Drug-Testing Bill Controversial
Gov. Phil Bryant has mined Florida for many of his bigger ideas, and his recent the drug-testing bill is no exception.
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City & County
Jackson Hospitals Expanding
The University of Mississippi Medical Center will soon have a downtown presence. The only question is how long it will take and how big of an impact it will have.
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Jacksonian
Lee King
When legendary performer James Brown called to offer Lee King a job, King hung up on him. Twice.
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Editor's Note
Lean In to Greatness, Jackson
Jackson is judged unfairly, it is called names and, when we stand up for ourselves to people who want us to shut up and comply (ahem, Legislature), the pushback gets …
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Bryan's Rant
Recent Coaching Hires
If you haven't noticed, three recent coaching hires are shaking up area colleges and universities. Mississippi College, Belhaven and Jackson State have all made coaching changes.
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Syrian Peace Talks Stuck Over Assad's Future
Peace talks intended to carve a path out of Syria's civil war got off to a rocky start Wednesday as a bitter clash over President Bashar Assad's future threatened to …
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Syria Peace Talks: Hyped as Crucial, Downplayed
In nearly the same breath, the world's most powerful diplomats have talked about the importance of this week's peace conference on Syria and downplayed expectations for a breakthrough.
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State Victories Create Dilemma for Abortion Foes
Opponents who have chipped away at abortion with state-level restrictions are facing a dilemma in some of the places where they have been most successful: Do they continue with that …
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Education
Rally: Schools Budget Gap an 'Injustice'
The Mississippi Adequate Education Program lays out the bare minimum that schools need to operate, but lawmakers almost never follow it.
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Biz Roundup
Monroe's, Brain Drain, Amada and Community Development
On Friday, Jan. 17, Monroe Jackson, owner of Monroe's Donuts and Bakery, officially opened a new location on the ground floor of downtown's Capital Towers.
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Halliburton Manager Gets Probation in Gulf Spill
A former Halliburton manager was sentenced Tuesday to one year of probation for destroying evidence in the aftermath of BP's massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Russia, Iran Criticize Tehran Snub for Syria Talks
Russia and Iran on Tuesday criticized the U.N. chief's decision to withdraw Tehran's invitation to join this week's peace conference on Syria, as diplomats said a new report on Syrian …
