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[Balko] SWAT Gone Wild
In pushing back against the abuse he suffered at the hands of the Prince George's County police department, Berwyn Heights, Md. Mayor Cheye Calvo is helping expose a more widespread …
Smells Like Team Spirit
When interns show up at the Jackson Free Press, they come through the door a tad nervous, hoping to get some sort of experience. They have a foggy idea that …
We Got A New At-ti-tude
Cue the Patti LaBelle, baby. As we prepare our third Best of Jackson issue, it strikes me that Jacksonians are starting to take for granted the idea that "best" is …
Jackson ‘White Flight' Slows In Last Decade
The release of 2010 Census data earlier this year may have been a gut-check for Jackson's leaders, but the numbers were hardly surprising. News reports, however, were quick to seize …
Frank Melton
Whiskey River Take Me Home
Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice are having no part of Mayor Frank Melton's attempt to defend his attack on a Ridgeway Street duplex by claiming that the building …
Shrinking JPD Springs a Sex-Toy Sting
So, the city can manage to find money to do sting operations in order to seize dildos. What a relief. Clarion-Ledger is reporting:
‘They're Taking Daddies Away'
Colonial Terrace Apartments resident Angella Rector speaks with a slow southern drawl that drips of mobile home and Larry the Cable Guy. The redhead married her husband, Juan Espanoza, two …
[Greggs] Help Is on the Way
Over the course of an average week as a mental health professional, I see many individuals in my office that most people would deem "crazy." I am often amazed they …
Countdown to Game One
The wait is almost over. After all the minicamps, training camps and preseason games, the NFL starts real football tonight.
Blackmon-Tuck Clash in Debate
Is it just me, or does it seem like a weird question to ask two candidates for a major office to waste time asking candidates if they can say something …
Your Grid or Mine?
<i>Jackson Designers Push 'New Urbanism'</i>
Turn off U.S. 51 onto Hoy Road in Madison, toward the reservoir, and drive past a number of bland gated communities until the gravel ends and you're on dirt. Keep …
What's In A Gang?
The brutality of gang life makes for popular entertainment on movie screens across America. Riddling a wall or restaurant with bullet holes from automatic gunfire kicks the pulse into overdrive.
Liberals and ‘Flyover Country'
Middle America - which includes most of the South, Midwest and West - too often gets dismissed by liberal politicians and liberal interest groups who seem to look down on …
One Lake Set to ‘Run Pretty Rapid'
The ongoing saga for a lake to control flooding in Jackson and provide economic-development opportunities on the Pearl River will reach a milestone this week.
[Kamikaze] The Real World, Jackson
This probably isn't the best time for "I told ya so's." But … I told ya so.
A Deal with el Diablo: The Immigration Bill's Dirty Fine Print
Much of this country's legislative history is built on compromise. Indeed, deal making among lawmakers has contributed to a robust, if sometimes flawed, system of American democracy. One of the …
[Greggs] Here's to You, Ali Robinson
This past weekend I went on a date with a man eight years my junior. (I'll pause so that all the older women may give me mental high-fives and formulate …
Street Talk: What do you think about Councilman Kenneth Stokes?
Lakesha Nichols, 24, "I think that he is a pretty fair person. I stand behind him."
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D.A. to Mayor: ‘Bring It On'
Click here for a podcast of Attorney General Jim Hood's press conference about the D.A.-Mayor conflict.
Mayor Rattles Councilwoman's Cage
Ward 7 Councilwoman Margaret Barrett-Simon said Mayor Frank Melton rattled her cage this morning on the way to a special council meeting. Barrett-Simon told the Jackson Free Press that Melton's …
