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DA Candidate Michele Purvis on Radio JFP Friday
DA candidate Michele Purvis will be the guest on Radio JFP on WLEZ (103.7 FM) Friday at noon. You can also listen to the stream here.
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3rd Annual JFP Chick Ball - Raised $7,000!
May 18 Update: The Chick Ball raised just at $7,000 for the Center for Violence Prevention!
Plan your outfits now for the JFP's 3rd Annual JFP Chick Ball on Thursday, May 17, in Hal & Mal's Red Room. This one will be the biggest Chick Ball, …
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Of Chick Balls and Big-Mouthed Women
Frank Melton called me a "big mouth" on Councilman Ben Allen's radio show Friday. Sitting in my bedroom listening as Todd showered, I couldn't help but laugh. Heartily. Loudly. You …
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BREAKING: Melton Budget 'Smoke and Mirrors'
The City Council cut short a budget session today after the Melton administration failed to present detailed budget revisions.
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Get Wet On The Okatoma
As the sorority sisters from the University of Southern Mississippi began crashing through the rapid known as "the chute" on the Okatoma Creek, the guys in our Scout troop took …
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The Yin and Yang of Health
Photos by Ronni Mott
Needles. The mere word reminds me of my last blood test when a clumsy nurse poked for a vein in my right arm, gave up and poked around some more …
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The Best In Sports In 7 Days
College baseball, Southern Miss at Houston (7 p.m., Houston, CSTV): USM begins its final C-USA series of the season and Golden Eagle fans finally get a chance to see their …
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Heather Wagner
Heather Wagner credits her mother, Jane Philo, with inspiring her career in victims' rights law. Now retired, Philo spent 23 years working with victims of domestic violence in Biloxi, and …
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Police Assaulted Boy, Mother Says
A Jackson mother alleges that a JPD officer threw her child against a police car and gave his face a cut that required 11 stitches.
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Transforming Lives
Domestic violence affects one in three women in their lifetimes, according to the Family Violence Prevention Fund. The staff at the Center for Violence Prevention is trying to quell the …
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[Grayson] Our Way Of Life
When I was 16 years old, my friends talked me into going to a local teen dance club. I begged my grandmother to approve, and we were off. I spent …
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Step Up, Ledger
If you read the JFP's account of the Mayor Melton's "open" meeting with department heads this week (page 6), and then you read the Clarion-Ledger's online account posted Monday, you …
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From Point A to You
What a deflated party balloon it was—filling up an online shopping cart only to get a denial: "Do not pass GO, do not collect your wine." At some point, you've …
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Still I Rise
Photos by Josh Hailey
Rosalind Roy, a 46-year-old Jackson native known as Roz, bubbles with energy. Her vigor emanates from her like an invisible vapor—it will either infect you or make you feel guilty …
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Air It Out
"We've told people they can air those trailers out," Paulison said.
FEMA really is the gift that keeps on giving, isn't it? Witness the deep concern of FEMA Director David Paulison about formaldehyde contamination of FEMA trailers on the Gulf Coast:
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Kaze's Hip-Hop Hater of the Week: Ebony Magazine
Here we go again folks. America just can't seem to do anything without going to the absolute extreme. As I expected the en-vogue pursuit to clean up objectionable lyrics is …
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Melton Orders Demolition Blitz
Mayor Frank Melton told department heads he wants a serious re-commitment to house demolition and downtown development in Jackson at a meeting held before members of the press today.
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Who I "was", Who I "am", and Who I want to "become"
It's funny how things have a way of happening at just the right time. How things are said at just the right moment. How your point is explained so clearly …
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Chick Ball to Honor Attorney General, Domestic Violence Unit
[Verbatim release] The Jackson Free Press and the JFP Chick Ball organizers and sponsors announce that Attorney General Jim Hood's Domestic Violence Prevention Unit, headed by Assistant Attorney General Heather …
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Red Hot Tamales and Kool-Aid Pickles
Here are two wide-eyed articles, by New York reporters, about enigmatic Delta dishes: the Kool-Aid Dill by John T. Edge of the New York Times and the Red-Hot, Pork-Stuffed, Corn-Wrapped, …
