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NPR Listeners Dissect, Unload on Mississippi
NPR's Bryant Park Project did a piece yesterday about segregated school proms in Charleston, Miss. (a piece that was inspired by Kamikaze's column in the Jackson Free Press on the …
Listen to the Moans
Sunday morning, I was organizing my new writing room at home and turned on the Galloway Methodist broadcast on WAPT to keep me company. I didn't pay much attention until …
Zata|3 Survey Results ‘Dead On'
Verbatim from Brad Chism of Zata|3:
Our public service project has concluded. As you can see below, our numbers were better than the Mason-Dixon poll and better than the Southern Research poll commissioned by the Clarion …
New Woodward Book Scathing Look at White House
The Washington Post reports that Bob Woodward's new book is roiling an embattled Bush administration:
‘I'm Keeping the House'
Amy Ephron is blogging on Huff Post about women who publicly stand by their cad husbands, as Eliot Spitzer's wife is doing, despite the humiliation:
Watch McCain "Whip" Obama's "You-Know-What" Tonight at Hal & Mals
The Jackson Free Press is a co-sponsor of the final debate party tonight in the Red Room at Hal & Mals. (Click here for info.) Join us to watch John …
Bristol Palin, Unmarried and 17, Is Pregnant
The drama is coming fast and furious from the abstinence-only McCain-Palin campaign today. The Washington Post is reporting:
Former Hinds D.A. Ed Peters Accused of $1M Bribe
The Scruggs scandal is hitting closer and closer to Hinds County. In a story about Booneville attorney Joey Langston pleading guilty to corruption charges, The Clarion-Ledger buried explosive accusations, made …
City Ends Precinct-by-Precinct Crime Stats
Not that it made the front page as any story about the previous administration and crime stats used to, but The Clarion-Ledger has a story today about how the new …
Melton Defense Continues; Chris Walker Today?
JFP Coverage of Defense Witness Christopher Walker
Bloomberg: Bush Backing Down on Spending Rest of Bailout
Boomberg News is reporting that a beleaguered President Bush is backing down on spending the rest of the bailout package. The Bush administration is under fire for spending half of …
Ladd Profiles Frank Melton in Reason Magazine
JFP Editor Donna Ladd writes about Mayor Frank Melton's shenanigans for Reason Magazine. The piece starts:
Why Local Matters
A 2010 report by Michigan State University assessed the economic advantages of shopping at locally owned businesses and, like researchers around the nation, found immense benefit to keeping as many …
The Game That Cost a Coach His Job
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WJTV is providing video of the post-game press conferences plus the firing announcement of the Ole Miss coach:
Hood: Entergy Twists Numbers to Hide Damage to Mississippi Ratepayers
Read Adam Lynch's earlier story about Entergy's rate controversy here.
Barbour: ‘We're Geared Up for a Major Storm'
Also see: Jackpedia: Hurricane Gustav to get/post vital information.
Feds: Criticism of Airport Security ‘Without Merit'
This is an intriguing story today in The Clarion-Ledger. A federal investigation has found that criticism of the Jackson-Evers airport security, reported in recent months by The Clarion-Ledger, "are without …
Kerry, Dems to Campaign in Mississippi
I'm happy to see the national Democratic Party taking Mississippi seriously. It's so insulting when national media, politicos or anyone else assume that all of our minds are already made …
