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Jackson Film Projects Show Promise of State Tax Breaks
Mississippi is famous for things such as blues music and its civil-rights history, but the state's burgeoning film industry may be the next big thing for the Magnolia State.
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Uber, the controversy-stirring taxi-ride sharing app, launched service in Jackson this week.
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Nell Knox
Attempting to condense a whole community into a single coffee-table book is an ambitious goal, but Jackson native Nell Knox seems prepared for the task.
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Ukraine: Truce Results in 1st Casualty-Free Day
Ukraine's president said Friday that a fragile truce between his government's troops and Russian-backed separatists in east Ukraine had resulted in the first day free of deaths or injuries for …
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Miss. Ex-Lawmaker Being Honored by Michigan State
The man who broke the color barrier in the Mississippi Legislature is being honored by his alma mater in Michigan.
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Dorsey Carson Releases Taxes, Slams Ashby Foote on Liens
Dorsey Carson, one of two candidates running to fill the Jackson Ward 1 seat, is taking his opponent, investment advisor Ashby Foote, to the mat over Foote's history of not …
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Burning Death Inquiry Eyes Woman's Last Hours
urveillance video that shows a woman at a convenience store gas station less than two hours before she was set on fire and left to die is part of the …
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State Government
Democratic Budget Proposal Fills Funding Gaps
Democratic lawmakers announced their plans today to use the money not yet allocated in the state budget towards education, state employee pay and state highways.
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City & County
Stokes Resignation to Prompt Ward 3 Election
As expected, Ward 3 Councilwoman LaRita Cooper-Stokes tendered her resignation from the Jackson City Council last night to take a seat on the bench as a county judge.
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Person of the Day
Jeffery Moore
On Thursday, Dec. 4, the Southwestern Athletic Conference honored Jackson State running back Jeffery Moore, a star for the Tigers from the late 1970s.
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LaRita Cooper-Stokes Resigns. What's Next for Ward 3?
By R.L. NaveAs expected, Ward 3 Councilwoman LaRita Cooper-Stokes last night tendered her resignation from the Jackson City Council to take a seat on the bench as a county judge.
Cooper-Stokes' departure makes the second mid-term resignation of a sitting council member in less than four months. In August, Ward 1 Councilman Quentin Whitwell left unexpectedly to move his family to Oxford. Whitwell's replacement will be determined by a runoff on Dec.16 between attorney Dorsey Carson and investment advisor Ashby Foote.
Now that Cooper-Stokes has officially vacated the seat, the currently five-member council will have to set a special election for Ward 3, which could happen as early as the next regular meeting on Tuesday Dec. 16, the day of the Ward 1 runoff.
Ward 3's special election could prove very entertaining.
Albert Wilson, who ran for the seat in 2013 and competed in the special election for mayor this year, reportedly already has campaign signs up.
Another question mark is Pam Greer, the founder of a nonprofit that promotes violence prevention and supports families of violent-crime victims. Greer also ran for the Ward 3 post in 2013 and has remained a vocal critic of city government on social media.
The most interesting possibility is that Cooper-Stokes' husband, Hinds County District 5 Supervisor Kenneth Stokes could seek his old seat. Stokes held the seat until he joined the county board in 2011; Cooper-Stokes replaced him in 2012 after a contentious special election that wound up in court. Stokes hasn't been very happy on the relatively quiet county board lately and could want to go back the higher profile city council.
Going back to the referendum on the 1-percent sales tax, 11 elections have taken place somewhere in the city of Jackson, since January 2013.
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Hong Kong Police Arrest Protesters, Demolish Main Camp
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House GOP Confident of Finishing Spending Measure
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Miss. Misses Out Again on Federal Preschool Money
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Massive $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill Unveiled
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UN Experts Call for Prosecution Over US Torture
All senior U.S. officials and CIA agents who authorized and carried out torture like waterboarding as part of former President George W. Bush's national security policy must be prosecuted, top …
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Bryan's Rant
Time to Add Four More?
Anyone who watches the NCAA basketball-tournament selection show knows that even with 68 teams getting in the dance, some teams always scream that they should have been in as well. …
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Music
Kindred: Bringing Soul to the City
Fatin Dantzler and Aja Graydon Dantzler, the powerhouse vocalists of Kindred the Family Soul, perform with Mike Burton and the Good Times Brass Band, and actor and comedian Palmer Williams …
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Marcie Cohen Ferris Goes Through the Food Lens
In "The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region (University of North Carolina Press, 2014, $35), Marcie Cohen Ferris uses the lens of food …
