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Sweetness Fest Takes a Run Against Obesity
Sweetness Fest organizers hope that only one thing gets bigger in the event's fight against obesity: participation.
Art
Verge in the Wild Wild West
Verge is a new community-oriented art project that evolved from FIGMENT Jackson. The website for FIGMENT says the mission of the events, which happen in multiple cities across the United …
Politics
Danny Glover and the Rights of Workers
I'll never forget Danny Glover as the drifter Moze in the 1984 film "Places in the Heart." It was a Depression-era story of a widowed mother in the South trying …
Economy
Killing Online Sales Tax Bill Is Hypocrisy
The state's budget is shrinking, and whether a lawmaker blames slow economic development or large tax breaks given to corporations that never came to Mississippi, the budget squeeze is on …
Education
MPB Bridges Education As Cuts Loom
Ronnie Agnew watched PBS shows like "Sesame Street" when he was growing up in Saltillo in rural Mississippi. Now the executive director of Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Agnew tells the story …
Education
EdBuild: New Formula in Hands of Few
Mississippi's new education funding formula is in the hands of a few lawmakers and the statehouse leadership—and what it will look like or how much money will go into the …
City & County
A Violence Talk That Might Have Been
It felt more like a bait-and-switch. But maybe the City Hall gathering was a start of a new way of thinking about crime prevention in the capital city.
Jacksonian
Adam Farcus
Artist Adam Farcus hasn't needed much time to make friends and make a difference in Jackson.
Editor's Note
Try Everything, Learn Something
Like a lot of people, when I was younger, I tried my hand at everything in the hopes that I would also be inexplicably great at everything.
Music
Kari Jobe: Growth in ‘The Garden’
In the worship-music industry, few contemporary artists have achieved the staying power of singer-songwriter Kari Jobe. Since the Waco, Texas, native released her self-titled debut in 2009, many of her …
Food
Sugar’s Legacy
Preparing meals for the masses isn't anything new for Glenda Cage Barner and her son, Donovan Barner, who own Sugar's Place. They have spent years cooking up food for their …
Books
Angie Thomas
In 2009, the death of Oscar Grant in Oakland, Calif., shook the nation, and the conversation about race and police brutality began anew. Here in Jackson, author Angie Thomas heard …
Biz Roundup
Better Beignets, Barrelhouse and Big Apple Inn
New Orleans native C.J. "Beignet" Black grew up eating beignets at the famous Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans' French Quarter and dreamed of starting a restaurant when he grew …
National
Trump Takes on Entrenched Practice of Washington Leaks
When White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer wanted to crack down on leaks last week, he collected his aides' cell phones to check for communication with reporters. The crackdown quickly …
Business
Mississippi Worst State for Women, Study Finds
Mississippi as the worst state for women based on several factors from life expectancy to unemployment figures, a new WalletHub study found.
Trump says He Won't Attend Correspondents Dinner this Spring
President Donald Trump, who has been criticizing the news media and is famously thin-skinned, says he won't be attending the White House Correspondents' Association dinner — sparing himself the dubious …
Report Warns of State Money Fallout from Health Law Repeal
A sobering report to governors about the potential consequences of repealing the Obama-era health care law warns that federal spending cuts probably would create funding gaps for states and threaten …
Politics
Analysis: Bills Pass Unseen in Latest Road-Money Drama Twist
It's one of the eternal truths of the Mississippi Legislature: Most lawmakers vote on bills they haven't read.
Civil Rights
Supreme Court Could Decide Transgender Case. Or Not.
Both the transgender teen who sued to use a boys' bathroom and the Virginia school board that won't let him still want the Supreme Court to issue a definitive ruling …
Civil Rights
Immigrant Supporters: Keep Jackson a 'Sanctuary City'
Supporters of immigrant rights turned out Tuesday night to urge the Jackson City Council to keep its Racial and Ethnic Profiling Ordinance in place, despite state and national efforts to …
