Sewers to Cost City BigThe city of Jackson will soon have a sewer repair bill that could rival the city's entire annual budget.
The Cookbook Ladies of Rankin County In 1978 Barney McKee, then director of the University Press of Mississippi, brought home a cookbook that he couldn't publish. That book was "The Twelve Days of Christmas Cookbook" and his wife, Gwen McKee, was enamored.
Time to Think Ahead People don't plan to fail; they fail to plan. Anyone needing evidence of that adage's truth needn't look much further than Jackson's decrepit, and worsening, infrastructure.
Get This Party Started It's time to convince and encourage our doubtful and cynical Ghetto Science Community members to move this nation forward through the power of 'One Person, One Vote.'
Is 'Getting By' as Good as It Gets? In the past month we've been through one hurricane, two national conventions and three weeks of preseason football. Here are a few of my casual observations.
'Mississippi is Mine' What Meredith did not only changed a university, but also a state and a nation.
Romney Seeks Political Advantage in Libya, Egypt CrisisThe embassy statement Romney referenced had been issued before protesters reached the embassy, as tensions were rising over an amateur film made in the United States that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammed.
Flood Control 'Kumbaya'?The two-dozen officials representing various government and civic agencies couldn't decide on which song was best suited for the signing of a document that enables work on a long-awaited flood-control project to begin in earnest.
Allison EnglandIt was during a summer art history class at Ole Miss that Allison England fell in love with Mississippi arts. Now, England, 27, is their resolute champion at the Mississippi Museum of Art, where she has worked for the past …
An Inconvenient JokeIf there is anything we now know here in Mississippi and in neighboring states, rising (or surging) oceans are nothing to belittle or use to score cheap political points.
In 2008—back when President Barack Obama was a candidate—then-Sen. Obama promised to take on global warming.
The embassy statement Romney referenced had been issued before protesters reached the embassy, as tensions were rising over an amateur film made in the United States that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammed.
Hurricane Isaac disturbed oil from the 2010 BP disaster, washed up on Gulf beaches.
The two-dozen officials representing various government and civic agencies couldn't decide on which song was best suited for the signing of a document that enables work on a long-awaited flood-control project to begin in earnest.
It was during a summer art history class at Ole Miss that Allison England fell in love with Mississippi arts. Now, England, 27, is their resolute champion at the Mississippi Museum of Art, where she has worked for the past …