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AAN Awards Diversity Grant to Melishia Grayson
The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies announced today that JFP intern and columnist Melishia Grayson is the recipient of a 2007 diversity grant. Melishia will report, write and blog 20 hours …
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Boise State v. OU: I Dub It: ‘The Calls'
Those of us who watch a little too much football between teams that don't matter to us personally are probably doing it so that we can witness a game like …
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2 College Games on TV Tuesday
Two state college basketball games are playing television games on Tuesday. Southern Miss hosts Auburn (6 p.m., CSS) and Mississippi State visits Missouri (7 p.m., FSN South). After that, you …
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Tom Head's New Year's Resolutions
1. Kick the Marlon Brando habit.
Most of us have them--and I spend way too much time on abstract stuff, and not enough time on community-building stuff, so here are mine...
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Bless The Beasts And The Student-Athletes
Deadspin delivers two late contenders for sports story of the year:
Johnny Fontaine Will Be Starting For Palermo Soon: Italian soccer coach gets goat's head for Christmas.
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Hang'em High: Saddam Executed
Saddam is dead.
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Melton's Bahamas Trip Still Haunting Him
How 'bout them apples? (And what a testament to the puzzle a couple of blog entries can unlock!)
Remember way back on March 3 when we first told Jackson on a JFP blog posting that Melton seemed to be bound for the Bahamas right in the midst of …
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He Who Laughs Last Thinks Slowest
I've been saving up for this one. One, Vanity Fair owes us an apology OR a rebuttal. Two, Christopher Hitchens's picture looks like a mustached woman waiting for her bread …
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President Ford: Iraqi War, WMD Story a ‘Mistake"
Bob Woodward did an interview with President Ford in 2004 that was embargoed by the former president until after his death. It is published today in the Washington Post, along …
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Spies In The Sky
Jackson and the metro area have a new set of eyes in the sky, thanks to local helicopter pilot Coyt Bailey, SafeCity Watch, philanthropist Jim Barksdale and other private donors, …
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The Great Divide
The few of us still in the practice of keeping straight the interchangeable Meineke Car Cares and Micron PCs of the ever-inflating college football bowl season—postseason rewards for the game's …
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The Best In Sports In 7 Days
College basketball, Mississippi Valley State at LSU (5:30 p.m., Baton Rouge, La.): The Delta Devils take a beating for a good cause in the Hispanic College Fund Classic.
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Temp-Gate Rocks City
In a contentious Dec. 21 meeting, City Council voted 4-0 to an amendment refusing to make payments for temp agencies supplying workers to the city of Jackson. On Tuesday, the …
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[City Buzz] no. 15 December 27 - Janurary 3, 2007
Grant Writers Suing City
Former city employees LaSeine Hunter Hilliard, Meisha Jones and Stanley Murray are bringing a civil action against the city of Jackson for termination against Civil Service rules and state law.
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The Big Fix Is In
Finding displaced and abandoned dogs after Katrina wasn't difficult. Offers of food can usually persuade dogs to trust rescuers. Cats presented a different challenge. Frightened cats hide from strangers and …
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Most Intriguing Jacksonians 2006
People living in Jackson may always remember 2006 as the year when Melton melted down. It's not all we'll remember about this year, of course. Renovation began on the King …
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Top 10 Days In Sports, 2006
Jan. 17: Mississippi State basketball coach Rick Stansbury kicks Walter Sharpe off the team.
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2006: The Year That Was (Nuts)
As we survey the top local news from this past year, we have to take a deep breath and feel a measure of pride. Time after time over the last …
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New Year's Eve In The Capital
One of the most exciting things about a new year, other than a chance to wipe the slate clean of all those indiscretions from the previous year, is all the …
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In Hindsight, We Need Oversight
As 2006 comes to a close, it's become achingly clear that Jacksonians are going to need to do something about the way we're governed. The indicators are clear and, oddly …
