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AP Reports on Columbia Training School Abuse
This isn't exactly a new story–see the JFP story from January 2005–but it is good to see the Associated Press taking our training-school horrors to a national stage. The story, …
BREAKING: Melton, Bodyguards Back in Upper Level
Club-goers are reporting that Mayor Frank Melton, and an entourage including bodyguards, Dets. Michael Recio and Marcus Wright, arrived at the Upper Level nightclub in Jackson close to 2 a.m. …
All Eyes on Jena, La., Today
The JFP's Maggie Burks is in Jena, La., today continuing her http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/comments.php?id=14884_0_67_0_C ]coverage of the Jena 6 case that she started in early August when she went to cover Al …
Free Voter ID Will Cost ... But What?
Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann announced yesterday that his office will be "proactive" and distribute free voter ID cards to anyone who does not have the proper identification. But …
Sundance Day 2: Which is really all about Slamdance…
It's 8pm and I am already exhausted. For one thing, it takes a ridiculous amount of energy just to stay warm. The high today hovered at 20 degrees, and the …
NOW Clinton Is Worried About Young Voters?
Since Barack Obama proved that the under-30 vote mattered in Iowa, and could well be a deciding factor in the presidential election, Hillary Clinton is adjusting her strategy to start …
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 …
Bloggers Want Mike Moore to Run for Lott's Seat
More on this story and other Lott-isms over at State Desk.
Office Humor Contest Entry
Sometimes Zazzle, one of the Web sites I contribute artwork to for sale, has contests where you create a product based on a theme, and the winner gets $1000. This …
My Story on Melton in Reason Magazine
Read the piece.
The libertarian Reason magazine today published a piece they asked me to write about Frank Melton and his shenanigans to date. Check it out here (note that a couple of …
Shame on Us
I literally shouted expletives at my TV yesterday morning as I drank my coffee and watched the morning news. In an appalling display of hypocrisy, first lady Laura Bush landed …
Theater of the Beef-Plant Absurd
Can we just call the beef-plant debacle what it is: a foolish bipartisan embrace of a corporate-welfare scheme gone awry? Both Dems and Republicans pushed for it, and Barbour wrote …
La Fiesta Loca: Straw Men, Piñatas and Race Cards
One of the responses to my last immigration blog was that I had made strawmen out of GOP candidates Phil Bryant and Delbert Hosemann, for interpreting their anti-illegal alien rhetoric …
Classic iTodd – Emmy-winning TV Show Now on YouTube
We got word today that a fan of Todd's old TV show—"Disk Doctors" on Knowledge TV, along with co-host Steven Sashen—has posted several of the shows on YouTube. Todd started …
Language of the Absurd
Despite its ungainly headline, AP ran an excellent story about the absurdity of some Mississippi politicians' anti-immigrant rhetoric, delivered just in time for the election cycle.
Daily Journal to Barbour: Come Clean
The Daily Journal in Tupelo continues to do Mississippians proud by calling on Gov. Haley Barbour to come clean about his financial ties to his (former?) D.C. lobbying firm. In …
Wake Up Jackson! - Phase III
Wake Up Jackson Civic Association
The organization is now registered with the Secretary of State's office. Also, we now have an address for correspondence:
The NAMIWalks Fundraiser is back! Help me "Stomp Out The Stigma of Mental Illness"!
I am writing you today to tell you about an upcoming event that I am participating in that is both very important and very exciting to me. It is NAMIWalks …
Busted: They like us! Er, no, they don't ...
Google Blogs Alert for: "jackson free press"
So a Google alert just popped up showing that the Mississippi Press Association had picked the thread on their sleepy blog about Gannett's Goliath distribution scheme as one of their …
How to Stir Up 'Holy Mischief'
"Speaking of Faith" had an amazing interview with young Christian Shane Clayborne this morning. I wasn't familiar with his work, or his book, but he was just breathtaking. The Tennessee …
