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Made for a Runway II Fashion Weekend is Friday, May 16, from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Jackson Convention Complex.
[Sue Doh Nem] Operation Retaliation
Sista Church Hat: "Welcome to a very important press conference brought to you by the Inspector 'Beat Down' Lipscomb Security Agency and the Ladies in Church Hats and Deacons in …
Media
As If We Lost the Saints
A tornado touched down in the New Orleans suburb of Arabi the evening of May 23. It was a busy Wednesday night in The Times-Picayune newsroom. The paper's website, NOLA.com, …
Irish Heroes
I sensed trouble as my brother's three sons and wife slunk out of the room slowly, without making eye contact. It had started well enough. I was in town and …
Changing Perceptions
It can be hard to understand why someone would move to Jackson looking only through the window of local media's barrage of crime and blight coverage.
[Hutchinson] Just the President
The only problem with New York Congressman Charles Rangel's quip that President Obama had better bring his ID to East Harlem is that he limited it to East Harlem.
Talk
State Not Good for Business?
Mississippi's competitive environment is the worst in the U.S. So says the "Eighth Annual State Competitiveness Report," from the independent, non-partisan Beacon Hill Institute, an economic research organization at Boston's …
Week 10: Land And Text Wars
The Mississippi House continued the Senate's attack on text-messaging while driving last week, approving Senate Bill 2280.
Barbour Signs $25 Million Incentive Bill
Gov. Haley Barbour signed HB 1628 yesterday, which provides Alliant Techsystems Inc. with a $25 million incentive to expand its aerospace manufacturing plant in Iuka, Miss., according to the KTTC …
Helping the Tsunami Victims
When he heard about that the disaster had struck on Dec. 26, Jackson attorney Taylor Ferrell made an phone call to Chennai, one of the devastated cities in southern India. …
[‘Tis The Season] The View From Kyoto
Kyoto in December 1997 was festive. I was there as an observer for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, working in tandem with a journalist reporting for Salon.
[Dickerson] Who's Zooming Whom?
Earlier this month, President Bush signed into law revisions to the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It gives the Bush administration new power to screen your e-mails and listen in …
Tough Times Await Bigger JPS Board
Jackson Public Schools will enter the coming school year with a lean budget and a growing Board of Trustees. The five-member school board, which already boasts four members with less …
Lebanon Launches Major Security Operation
Lebanese troops launched a major security operation on Monday to open all roads and force gunmen off the streets, trying to contain an outburst of violence set off by the …
Obama Releases List of Approved Jokes
Apparently feeling the pain of late night talk-show hosts, President-Elect Barack Obama took time out of his busy transition schedule to put together an approved list of jokes for the …
Hiphop Exhibit Prepares for the Smithsonian
NEW YORK (Feb. 28) - For nearly three decades, hip-hop relics such as vinyl records, turntables, microphones and boom boxes have collected dust in boxes and attics.On Tuesday, owners of …
] Getting It Done
About a month ago, I admonished up-and-coming artists to embrace the concept of free music. The argument was simple: Free music makes it easier for artists to disseminate their product …
Senate Approves Anti-Violence Against Women Act
By a robust bipartisan majority, the Senate voted Tuesday to renew the Violence Against Women Act with new assurances that gays and lesbians, immigrants and Native American women will have …
Business
Farish on Thin Ice, Fondren Getting Pub
The Jackson Redevelopment Authority had some big questions for the Farish Street Group at the monthly JRA meeting in January.
AP Exclusive: Documents Detail Nixon, Clinton Ties
In the final months of his life, Richard Nixon quietly advised President Bill Clinton on navigating the post-Cold War world, even offering to serve as a conduit for messages to …
