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Jack Wants to Know: Your Favorite Spot for WiFi?

Go tell us here: Free WiFi?

Also, what are your favorite services, you know like "wash and fold" or shoe repair or whatever. Tell us here: Repair Services

Politics

Transcript of Tuck fund-raising letter on her JFP candidate page

Amy Tuck has not responded to requests for interviews or returned her voter questionnaire, but you can read the Sept. 11 fund-raising letter that is posted in its entirely on …

Cooking

Armchair Farming

I grew up swearing I would never step foot in a garden again. My stepdaddy's hobby was growing stuff, and he would produce way more watermelons, tomatoes, potatoes and what …

Cooking

Power of Love

Let's just be honest. Science frowns on the idea that certain foods have the power to, you know, increase your libido. (If you don't know what that is, you shouldn't …

Person of the Day

Ann Herlihy

Many Jacksonians are still in mourning since Ann Herlihy closed Fondren Traders late last year, the shop where many of us bought so many gifts (most of my staff gifts …

Judge Kidd Rules Against John Reeves

Judge Winston Kidd has just ruled that the election results in the District 71 race between Adrienne Wooten and incumbent John Reeves should be certified, and that no special election …

Medical Mall Teen Summit to Deal with Pregnancy

[Verbatim] Jackson, MS- he Mississippi State Health Department and others will join the Jackson Medical Mall Foundation for a news conference on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. at …

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Please help this family in need

Photographer Christina Cannon send this email around today; please do what you can. Her verbatim email follows:

Good

The Salvation Army Needs Help, Now and Later

The Salvation Army is serving more than 1,200 Thanksgiving dinners in Jackson this week, and needs your help. Here's how to donate and volunteer.

Hurricane

GOP Chairman Threatens Subpoenas for Katrina Docs

AP is reporting:

The Republican chairman of a House panel investigating the response to Hurricane Katrina threatened Wednesday to issue subpoenas for documents if the White House and other agencies don't provide them …

Politics

Mississippi GOP Gleeful Over Pickering End Run

Emily Wagster Pettus of AP writes: "Judge Charles Pickering's exhausting journey to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a cause celebre for the Mississippi Republican Party. People shouldn't …

Politics

Watch the McCain-Palin Hateful Highlights

Here's a film that gathers many of the dark moments of the last week of McCain-Palin rallies into a documentary short:

Business

Economist: Bush Wants Stagnant Job Market

Economic James K. Galbraith argues in Salon that Bush wants a stagnant job market to "keep the help from getting uppity." He writes: "The transcendent economic issue this election year …

Talk

Daddy's Little Running Back

As a child, my dream was to play running back for the greatest professional football team, at that time the Chicago Bears. I thought I would never see the day …

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Fortune and CNN Money Stories on Farish and ‘Indie Jackson'

Enjoy. And pass the word.

Word went around last week that JFP friend Amy Haimerl had done a piece about Jackson, and Farish Street, for Fortune Small Business. The story is now published here on …

Courthouse Fitness Opening in Jackson Place Downtown

[Verbatim statement] April 15, 2008—Parkway Properties Inc. (NYSE:PKY) announced today that the Courthouse Racquet and Fitness Center has signed a five-and-a-half year, 10,000 square foot lease to bring a premier …

200,000 Jacksonians Without Water; MEMA Opens Emergency Center

Water Crisis Hotline: 601.960.1111

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