TRUTHWATCH: Is E-mail About Bush Response to Katrina Factual?Please click here to read a new JFP Truthwatch thread that presents unattributed "facts" about the White House's response to the Katrina disaster. You can also help factcheck the e-mail by clicking on the link to it in our Truthwatch …
Don't Miss Killen Cover Story, Irby ColumnNote: For now, the JFP's current 4,000+ word cover story, "After Killen: What's Next for Mississippi?", is not posted here in the Killen trial blog. Click here to access that story, read the more than 100 comments to date and …
Point That Finger Somewhere Else, Wouldya?Watch this eight-minute compilation of clips showing how the spin cycle is working the phrases "blame game" and "finger-pointing." Very interesting.
JPS Athletic Events RescheduledJPS Athletics has rescheduled events for high school football, B-team football, middle school football, and middle school volleyball. High school volleyball will resume its original schedule on Monday, September 12. Cross-country track and softball will resume their regular schedules on …
Mayor Lifts Jackson ‘Curfew'The city of Jackson today lifted an emergency "curfew" that they told the JFP a week ago was not enforceable for either individuals or businesses. Here's the press release:
Edgar Ray Killen Back In PrisonA judge Friday revoked the bond that allowed Edgar Ray Killen to stay out of prison while he appealed his manslaughter conviction for the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers. Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon ordered Killen returned to prison …
BLOC PARTY TO ISSUE REMIX LP AND RETURN TO THE STATES!!If you're anything like us, you've nearly worn out your copy of Bloc Party's Silent Alarm, one of 2005's breakthrough albums, with repeated listens. But now, thanks to Vice Records and a little help from their musical peers, there's a …
Katrina Delivers Second Blow To Gay Families<i>Recovering from the devastation of hurricane Katrina may be particularly difficult for same-sex couples who are not recognized in any of the three states directly hit by the storm or in those states where refugees have fled.</i>
LOTT: FEMA should be a "freestanding agency…"<i>Lott didn't want to blame anyone for the government's response to the disaster, saying he doesn't want to "bite the hand" that's trying to save him. His own home in Pascagoula, Mississippi, was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Feds Trying to Block Media from New Orleans?<i>An interesting dynamic is taking shape in this city, not altogether positive: after days of rampant lawlessness (making for what I think most would agree was an impossible job for the New Orleans Police Department during those first few crucial …
[Greggs] The Storm of the CenturyThis is the first time I've written since The Storm of the Century hit the Coast. This has bothered me more than not sleeping in my own bed, as writing is my own form of sustenance. I've been a "displaced …
[New Release] The New Pornographers "Twin Cinema"The New Pornographers — "Twin Cinema" In the Byrds/Beatles power-pop reflection of Elephant 6, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Beta Band, The Comas and The Shins, the rise and fall of the indie psych pop flavor-of-the-month continues to shine on The …