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Honor the 2010 Chicks We Love at Chick-A-BOOM!

Every year, the Jackson Free Press chooses a delightful slate of Chicks We Love to spotlight, and each year we host the JFP Chick Ball to raise money to fight …

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Councilman Ben Allen's JFP Blog Goes Live

Click here to visit the Councilman's new blog.

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GOP PR Firm, Others Under Scrutiny

Sid Salter has an intriguing bit today on his blog about PR firms under scrutiny by the legislative PEER Committee.

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What a ‘Bad Week' Obama Has Had

Since the media narrative flip-flopped once again toward Hillary Clinton in the last week, just how has Barack Obama actually fared. Read Kos' analysis of Obama's "bad week"—including all the …

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Madison Mayor Running for State Auditor?

In an interview with Better Mississippi Report yesterday, Madison Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler said she might consider running for state auditor in the 2011 statewide elections. "For the first time …

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‘Hey, That's Not An Alt-Weekly'

Richard Karpel, our friend and the director of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, has written an amusing but pointed piece about what an "alternative weekly" is, and is not. He …

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To Be Married Means to Be Outnumbered

The New York Times has a feature story about how married couples are now a minority in the U.S.:

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Alert: Lawsuit Abuse! Lawsuit Abuse!

I hear stories like this one and I get furious at the people who refuse to understand that the most important use of lawsuits is to financially deter crap like …

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Gannett's ‘Career Builder' Layoff-Tax Break-Gate

Over on the Gannett Blog, Jim Hopkins has The Clarion-Ledger's home office on the defensive after he reported that the company laid off hundreds of Career Builder workers after getting …

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Clash in the Cage

As an extreme sports fan I am always looking for different venues to get my fix. Sometimes living in the Jackson area it is hard to find events besides just …

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Bush Commutes Libby's Prison Sentence

My, isn't this predictable? One wonders what goodies Libby has in his safety-deposit box, eh?

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Candidate Sandridge Says Jackson Threatens Madison ‘Way of Life'

Here is the full write-up:

In his bought campaign write-up in The Northside Sun this week, Madison County Sheriff candidate Mark Sandridge amps up the anti-Jackson rhetoric that brought him massive criticism in May when …

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Tammy Faye Messner loses battle with cancer

Messner passed away Friday morning. She was 65.
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Casino Near Farish Street?

A card-carrying Republican on a local blog that shall remain unnamed had what I think is a pretty clever idea: Why not campaign to end restrictions on casino locales? They …

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Time to Put Duckworth Rumors to Bed

A JFP investigation is showing that those accusations were false.

You may have seen some of the back-and-forth over the last week between Othor Cain and me and others about accusations he made on Ben Allen's WLEZ-FM radio show, then …

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I'M FAT!!!!!

I had a doctor's visit recently, and I almost passed out when I saw the numbers on the scale. I gained 35 POUNDS in two years! Well...

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Historian Explores the Tea Party's Extremist Roots

NPR's Fresh Air Host Terry Gross interviewed historian Sean Wilentz today about his recent article in "The New Yorker" exploring the roots of the Tea Party movement. He writes that …

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The Lion, the Witch, and the Governor

Mark this one on your calendars, folks, because it won't happen often: In the current controversy between Governor Jeb Bush and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, I'm …

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Radio JFP at Noon Thursday; Crisler May Appear

Councilman Marshand Crisler is joining Donna Ladd and Todd Stauffer today at noon for Radio JFP on WLEZ-FM (103.7 or http://www.wlezfm.com for a live stream)—if he can get out of …

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Glamour Shots

Well, I didn't break the camera, so I guess I'll share the pics with you. :-P