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Haley's Unholy Alliance

Barbour Client Indicted in Nursing Home, Delay Scheme

When Haley Barbour was head of the Republican National Committee from 1993 to 1997, he loathed Medicare, the federal health-care program, and tried to gun it down in the GOP …

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With A Little Help From My Friends: Waveland's Getting By

In Waveland, Miss., the little town that arguably received the worst punishment Katrina could mete out, those credited with the swiftest response are not disaster-relief groups or government agencies, but …

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Paradise Lost: Latinos Caught In Katrina Squeeze

Strangely, it wasn't the hurricane itself that tore down the life and family of Daniel Dotta. It was the clean-up crew that came along behind it.

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It has begun…

AP is reporting that Mr. Delay must report to jail for booking

Publisher's Note

Your Name In Lights

You gotta love the folks who decide to do something instead of just complain about it. Last year, in response to the common refrain "We never get any decent independent …

Domestic Violence

[Greggs] I Am Mississippi

I love this place. This state, I mean. I love the fact my neighbors showed up the day after Katrina with chainsaws in hand because they noticed a tree blocking …

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Peggy Carlisle

It's a safe wager that third- and fourth-graders at Pecan Park Elementary School in Jackson know a lot about Kenya. That's because their ExCel teacher Peggy Carlisle, 54, added "The …

Letters

No. 5 October 20 - 26

<b><u>Solid Work</u></b>

Keep up the solid work with the Jackson Free Press. I grab every one of those free copies I can get my hands on. We agree on precious little (actually, …

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The Corporate Court

Has Bush nominated an anti-Roe stealth candidate? Not if he's smart. Wait, let me rephrase that...

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On a lighter note…

Like, oh-my-god, DO I CARE?

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My trip to the beach

I went to The Coast today. In my grown up job I was asked to be part of a group that went down and conducted coping groups with survivors of …

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D.C. Rumormill: Cheney May Resign, Condi Move Up

According to a piece in U.S. News and World Report, rumors are flying around Washington that Vice President Cheney might resign if "Plamegate" indictments reaches into the V.P.'s office. Further …

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China Ups its Space Program

According to CNN, the Chinese sent a manned spacecraft into orbit and brought it back safely on Monday, calling it a victory for the Communist Party in China and saying …

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Radical Right Targets Girl Empowerment Effort

Oct. 14, 2005—AP is reporting that the Tupelo wingnuts are at it again:

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What They Think About Us At DailyKos

Here's the all-important light-up-the-phone-lines nut graf:

Today finds a 'recommended' diary over at DailyKos, about a visitor to our lovely state and his "blue state" reactions to the people he encounters when he's working on Katrina …

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Harriett Miers Supported Ban on Most Abortions

AP is reporting:

Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers pledged support in 1989 for a constitutional amendment banning abortions except when necessary to save the life of the mother, according to material given to …

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Begging for Autonomy

The one who seeketh after credibility shall not find it.
Music

Marah CD Drops Oct. 18, Live in Oxford Nov. 5

If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry, the fifth, and arguably finest, record from that little ole' band from Philadelphia known as Marah, will hit stores on October 18th. These days …

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Hitchcock was SO RIGHT to be scared to death of them…

I must share the trauma.

Business Week writes the scariest thing I've ever read about the Bird Flu.