College Football: Instant Replay, Nov. 18It was a Saturday of upsets, close calls and disappointments for Mississippi's college football teams (keep checking back, this will be updated all weekend):
Stewpot Robbed for Second Time in a WeekAccording to The Clarion-Ledger. The question is, where the @#$% is the police chief, and why isn't she out in front telling the public what she is doing to deal with the crime crisis? Our last chief held public briefings …
Melton Hosting Get-Out-of-Jail-Free PartyGot a tip last night at Fondren Unwrapped that Bob Hickingbottom is calling Melton's supporters, and former supporters, asking them to donate money to attend what they are actually calling a "Get out of jail free" party to help with …
Rise Up with FistsJenny Lewis, former lead singer of Rilo Kiley, has been one of the best-kept secrets in folk rock for years. Now armed with the retro backing vocals of the Watson Twins, she has taken some of the grit out of …
See the Casey Parks Lesson PlanI was just talking to Ayana Taylor, JFP-reporter-turned-teacher, and she told me that she had run into a NYT lesson plan for teachers—using our very own Casey Parks and her trip to Africa with Nick Kristof! This is very cool, …
Should Dems Write Off the South?The lefty blogosphere is "atwitter" (with apologies to the Mississippi Press Association) over the notion that the 2006 mid-term elections were not only a repudiation of various Bush Administration policies and GOP scandals, but also represent an emerging regionalization of …
This Has to Be SatireThere is no way that Wyatt Emmerich wrote the following without his tongue firmly implanted in his right cheek:
Of Red Meat and Breast CancerYoung women, beware of the emerging evidence that eating red meat can increase your risk of breast cancer. Per a New York Times editorial today:
Farish Street RebornAfter years of waiting, construction workers were banging hammers against a building that will soon be the first new entertainment venue open for business in the Farish Street Entertainment District this Monday.
City Buzz no. 9 November 15 - 22Mayor Frank Melton is looking to correct a mistake he made about a year ago when he refused to renew the contract of lobbying firm Winston & Strawn LLP. Months after Melton came into office, he outraged the council by …
Council Calls For Independent AttorneyMembers of City Council say they are still stinging from being duped by their own attorney into paying her thousands of extra dollars.
Bond Proposal TriumphsTo the astonishment of naysayers (and some supporters), an overwhelming majority of Jackson voters approved the recent $150 million Jackson Public Schools bond issue. Like the Convention Center bond proposal passed in 2004, the school bond issue required 60 percent …
Young Dems Hit JacksonBeginning Friday, Nov. 17, Jackson hosts the three-day Young Democrats National Fall Conference. Kate Jacobson, 22, is the Mississippi chapter's vice president. Jacobson, born in Washington, D.C., came to Mississippi at age 5 when her parents moved to Tupelo. "None …