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Another Reason to Come to Fondren Unwrapped

Here's an e-mail I received today from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society:

Like you need one to come out to one of the the holiday season's premier shopping events, right? Well, you could buy a gift book about Mississippi and do a …

Mississippi Gets About $16M from New Lottery Since November

Mississippi has collected about $16 million from a state lottery that started operating in November.

Handy Hardware Coming to Mississippi

[verbatim from the Governor's office]

Jackson, Mississippi - Governor Haley Barbour announced today that Handy Hardware, a member-owned hardware buying group, will open a distribution center in Meridian. The company plans to employ more than …

[Stiggers] Dig Deep

Ernest "Monday Night Football Head" Walker: "It looks like U.S. troops will be overseas a little while longer. Meanwhile, questions that reflect uncertainty loom in the thoughts of wondering poor …

JFP Night for "Santaland Diaries" TONIGHT at New Stage

Join the Jackson Free Press Friday, Dec. 16, for a special showing of "The Santaland Diaries" at New Stage Theater. You don't want to miss the hilarious and irreverent one-man …

Millsaps College Recognized as a Top Educational Value

Millsaps College is the best college in the state of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama based on student satisfaction, postgraduate success, four-year graduation rate and competitive awards.

Lottery? Mississippi House Leader Setting Group to Study It

Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn says he will appoint a committee to study the pros and cons of creating a state lottery.

Feeling the Grooves

I bought my first record in 2011. My friend and I saw a stack of them in a bin at a second-hand store and decided, on a whim, to buy …

Forum Puts Kelly on Hot Seat

Many west Jackson citizens and community leaders let Chartre Consulting know this morning that they are not happy with the developer's plan for a mixed-income development near Jackson State University.

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Stocks Rise Even as U.S. Economic Growth Slows

U.S. stock indexes moved higher in early trading Wednesday, despite news that the U.S. economy has been growing more slowly than first estimated.

‘Everything Will Be Alright’ for Weezer

The first time I heard Weezer, the band was a musical guest on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."

Have a Fashionable Winter

With a whole new season comes the constant question of the day: What am I going to wear?

John Currence's Big Bad Cookbook

Chef John Currence spells out his cooking manifesto before we get to the first recipe. It includes advice such as make your own bread, buy quality ingredients, cut the "low-fat" …

View from the Co-op

It's the grocery store for hippies, no doubt. Rainbow Co-op bumper stickers often find themselves on cars next to such declarations as "People Over Profit" and "Meat is Murder." But …

Waiting for Word from Bernanke, Stocks Move Higher

U.S. stocks moved higher Tuesday, helped by news of a pickup in home building and low inflation.

Wal-Mart to Hire Vets, Buy American

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer and the biggest private employer in the U.S. with 1.4 million workers here, said Tuesday that it is rolling out a three-part plan …

Store-to-Freezer Sustainable Eating Tips

Farm-to-table is a noble concept, but registered dietitian nutritionist Felicia Stoler says what goes on inside your home is as important as what happens at farms and food manufacturing facilities.

Stimulus Starts At Home

This week we're proud—and perhaps a little surprised—to be publishing one of our largest issues of the Jackson Free Press so far in Volume 7; and one of the most …

Watkins Wants to Buy Metrocenter

Watkins Development LLC Vice President Jason Goree said the company, which already owns a closed anchor-store space in Metrocenter Mall, now wants to buy the entire structure.

In Survival Mode

I would daresay during the past two weeks, most of the population of Mississippi has been stressed out. In graduate school I once had a professor who made it her …