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The Colonel's Future
The Daily Mississippian, the Ole Miss student newspaper, has spent the past week debating the future of Colonel Reb. The DM has a poll that asks, "Do you think Colonel …
Charlie Hustler
Pete Rose admits he bet on baseball in his new book. Shocking. This just in ... O.J. killed two people and got away with it. BTW, Pete's new autobiography turns …
ABC's "Monday Night Football" ... Good Riddance
From The Mighty MJD: "The last 'Monday Night Football' game ever on ABC will likely turn into a 3-hour self-congratulatory pat-on-the-back for ABC. And I can't begrudge ABC for that; …
Naked Truth
Speaking of sports crime, here's an item from the always-reliable badjocks.com: An unidentified junior at Bentonville High School in Arkansas was suspended for 10 days after he made a mad …
Trancefusion Jamtronica
DrFameus is a machine. DrFameus is a man who beats drums with sticks. DrFameus is a one-man jamtronica band.
Mixing Roots
Mixing roots with modern music means more to the Carolina Chocolate Drops than blending old and new. The unusual musical group plays songs with ancient-sounding bluegrass tunes and genuine African …
Koinonia Coffee House To Hold Grand Opening on June 6
As the Jackson Free Press alerted you in our Young Influentials issue several weeks ago, Koinonia Coffee House is about to open in West Jacksonthis Friday. We urge everyone to …
Todd Stauffer and Kamikaze on Radio Jan. 11
... And they're talking about ... wait for it ... karaoke. We can only assume this will not fill the entire show. Show is on WLEZ-FM 103.7 until 1 p.m. …
City Purchases 311 Software
The Jackson City Council yesterday approved the purchase of two software packages that will allow citizens to make and track complaints and requests related to city services online. The two …
Nearly Half of All Mississippians Not Connected
About half—45 percent—of all Mississippi residents are unable to do what many of us take for granted: read this, or any other Web site. They're unable to send e-mails to …
Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Leading to Violence Against Latinos
The Southern Poverty Law Center is warning that the vitrolic anti-immigrant debate is, predictably, starting to spill over into violence against Latinos. And as we've seen right here on the …
HIGHTOWER: Flowers in a Dark Winter
The politicians don't want to think about it, the media establishment has turned a blind eye to it, and the Bushites are trying to shout it down—but it's rising anyway, …
Clarion-Ledger Back in Neshoba County
Cheers to The Clarion-Ledger for going back on its statements that Edgar Ray Killen—and then James Ford Seale—were going to be the end of the line for investigating old civil …
The Nation Blogs on the ‘Hell-Raising' JFP
This is how he starts out:
Folks, Bob Moser at The Nation is blogging about our Obama commentary last night, quoting from us liberally (which he asked permission to do because he is a class act). …
New [FLY] Gifts Flip-Guide: Helping You Shop Local for the Holidays
As if a growing weekly paper, a busy online Daily and a wildly popular quarterly glossy weren't enough, today we introduced a new kind of publication to help Jacksonians shop …
The Bachelorettes Headline Chick Jam Benefit Friday at Hal & Mal's
See you Friday!
The first of several events scheduled around this year's 5th Annual JFP Chick Ball is this Friday night in the Red Room at Hal & Mal's. The Bachelorettes will bring …
‘Corporate Controlled Press' Hiding Barbour's Flaws?
I was just reading the comments under the Think Progress Barbour "corruption" thread and saw this comment that deserves more discussion:
DSCC Ad Attacks Wicker on Health Care, Wages
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is running a new ad that criticizes Roger Wicker for voting repeatedly against expanding children's health insurance, raising the minimum wage and increasing Medicare funding. …
