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Bring-Your-Bomb-To-Work Day
As you may have seen on the local news a couple of days ago, a Utica woman finds what appears to be a pipe bomb in her mailbox. Her solution? …
So, Does This Mean Bennett Will Walk?
So, it is possible that Mayor Frank Melton has fibbed againthis time about the suspect in the Memorial Day shooting confessing to him on tape. The D.A. doesn't have the …
ARTICLE: Sliding, Squeeze Plays and Stealing Home: The Legacy of Negro Leagues Baseball
ABCNews.com gets kudos from me for this article. Four pages of near perfection. Cool Papa Bell was mentioned at least twice.
The Story Behind Clarion-Ledger's ‘ShopLocal'
The name is Orwellian, almost. Even as the Jackson Free Press and other local businesses believe that Jacksonians need to spend money with businesses actually owned locally, The Clarion-Ledger, an …
Putting Babies in Danger
Recent news from the citizen-based environmental advocacy group Environmental California states that your baby's plastic baby-bottle may be leaching toxins. From their report's executive summary:
Public and Community Meetings In and Around Jackson
5 p.m., Fondren Association of Businesses Annual Membership Meeting at Schimmel's (2615 N. State St.). Find out about membership opportunities and what's in works for the Fondren Business District. E-mail …
ARTICLE: Who You Callin' a Maverick?
We've heard the word "maverick" quite a bit during this election cycle. The question is this: Do we really know what we're talking about when we use that word? Check …
[Herman's Picks] Vol.8, No. 15
Several local venues are open through the holidays this year (including Christmas Eve and Christmas Day) to celebrate with musical and liquid cheer.
[Rob In Stereo] Harder Than it Looks
Depending on your sentiments, power-pop is either music in its purist form or a vacuous and overly simplified genre. I have always been among the defenders, largely because it can …
[Rob In Stereo] Inching Toward the Present
I rolled my eyes upon first hearing Dr. Dog's flagrant aping of The Beatles and The Band. Critics' main disparagement continues to be over its derivative sound, and I was …
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[Rob In Stereo] Still Fighting
Few artists have the kind of a story to tell about the fragility of life as Alejandro Escovedo. He has used his previous two albums2006's "Boxing Mirror" and the recently …
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[Rob In Stereo] Evading Musical Immortality
In 1994, at the height of grunge mania, Bush released its debut record "Sixteen Stone." Grunge fans ate it up and made the record go multi-platinum despite the band taking …
Biz Roundup
New Grocery Store, Employment Expo, Home Loans, and Surety Bonds
Mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr. attended the grand opening of LCD Foods' third Jackson Save-A-Lot Grocery Store Feb. 2.
ARTICLE: Cheney booed throwing out first pitch at baseball game
Yeah, I laughed a little when I read that too.
Rid Your Body of Toxins
Between eating and drinking out of plastics that leach, getting a bit of pesticides with our veggies and a few stray hormones in our burgers, we're all exposed to levels …
Real Refugees
Angelina Jolie makes me like her again with the statement "Nobody deserves an award for humanitarian aid, we should all just be doing it." in an interview with CNN.
Crying All the Way Back to the Megillah?
I really dig Maureen Dowd's column about Hillary Clinton's notorious tears leading up to New Hampshire. And isn't it ironic that the first viable female president cried on purpose in …
The Weekly Jerry Update: Better Late Than Never
I had begun a series of Sunday sermons pulling Jerry around by the short ones, but was unable to update it yesterday because someone at Fallwell Ministries was being lazy …
Scruggs Paid Lawyer to Convince Hood in State Farm Case
It has emerged in court documents that attorney Dickie Scruggs paid attorney Steve Patterson $500,000 to lobby Jim Hood to try to get him not to indict State Farm. The …
