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Suburbs Losing Young Whites to Cities

Diversity in city and suburbs = good. Keep it up, Jackson.

Our good friend David Watkins (or "Pops" in JFP comments and forums) posted a link to this Huff Post piece on Facebook yesterday, which reports on a Brookings Institution study …

Non-Corporate Coffee Locator

Just came across this -- click to Delocator.net to find the non-corporate coffee houses either close to home or when you're traveling. Nice not only because it's an option other …

Bush Defends Vast Domestic Spying

George Bush is trying defend the vast spying on Americans that was revealed this year.

Tate Reeves vs. Reform Party

Here's something interesting: The Associated Press reported that in the lieutenant governor's race between Republican Tate Reeves and the Reform Party's Tracella Lou O'Hara Hill, Hill received 20 percent of …

D.A. Smith: ‘New' at Dealing with Melton?

David Hampton said yesterday on this blog that he ran into D.A.-elect Robert Smith, who told him that he no longer has the two JPD bodyguards. Then Hampton explains it …

Need a Crazy Paddy's Crown? Then D.I.Y.

Don't miss our gallery of "Head Games" crowns that we put together this issue. Much of the JFP staff let me do really crazy things to their heads, and the …

Dates Set for Two More Executions

The following is a verbatim statement from the Mississippi Department of Corrections:

The Mississippi Supreme Court has set execution dates for Death Row inmates Larry Mathew Puckett, MDOC #65781, and William J. Mitchell, MDOC #31271.

Hilarious Pic: Me, Joey and Darth

Our good friend Gorjus is using a photo of Joey Adams, Darth Vader and me at Crossroads last year as his main pic right now. You know, I thought Darth …

Millsaps searching for new President

Dr. Frances Lucas, President of Millsaps College over the last 9 years, will be retiring effective June 30, 2010.

ARTICLE: Civil rights pioneer dead at 63

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Vivian Malone Jones, one of two black students whose effort to enroll at the University of Alabama led to George Wallace's infamous "stand in the schoolhouse …

Hinds CC Cancels Some Classes, Closes Thursday

Hinds Community College announces schedule changes because of concerns about wind and rain from Hurricane Isaac.

Domino Mag Breaks White House Decorator News

It makes me happy in a way I can't explain that we have a family going into the White House that appreciates the kind of home decor featured by Domino …

Of Red Meat and Breast Cancer

Young women, beware of the emerging evidence that eating red meat can increase your risk of breast cancer. Per a New York Times editorial today:

WLBT 3 - Melton's Residency Dividing Democrats

WLBT 3 reports:

Frank Melton's candidacy for mayor is being challenged by members of the Democratic Executive Committee in Jackson. Now Jackson democrats are accusing their fellow party members of candidate allegiance and …

House debates dipping in trust fund

Andy Kanengiser of the C-L reports: "Using money from Mississippi's tobacco trust fund to avoid slashing school budgets was one of the proposals discussed Sunday at the Capitol. But the …

Clarion-Ledger Endorses Musgrove, Tuck

So, here's a riddle: Why of the top four candidates' distasteful (at best) campaign tactics -- Musgrove ("poisoning"), Barbour and Tuck (race-pandering), Blackmon (abortion affidavit) -- would the Clarion-Ledger only …

Kennedy Derides Howard Dean's NRA Support

The Washington Post reports: "Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.) scolded Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean for his friendly relations with the National Rifle Association during a Capitol Hill rally last …

Comic David Cross on voting and f*ckin' bumper stickers

Wiretap's Dan Hoyle interviews comic Dave Cross: "It's pretty galling that I know people will wait in line for a weekend to see a f*ckin' movie that's gonna be there …

Friends Mourn JSU NAACP President's Death

Friends are remembering Michael Teasley for his loyalty and activism.

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Big, Bad, Bold

Get ready to time travel with the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science with "Dinosaurs: Big, Bad, Bold and Back," now until Jan. 6, 2013.