Sens HereFresh off a disastrous road trip, the Senators (your first-half CBL East champions) open a six-game homestand on Friday when they play the Fort Worth Cats at 7:05 p.m. Get ready for the roar of ThunderStix.
Plea to Candidates: Prosecute Civil Rights MurdersJohn Gibson writes: "Please call the candidates for District Attorney for Mississippi District 8 (includes Neshoba county) and ask will they and how will they aggressively pursue prosecution in the murders of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman and …
[Gardens] Of Soil and Soul"This will never do," I said to my sister Judy when she showed me her herb garden. In fairness, it was not all bad. It was perfectly located near the kitchen door, and it had its own picket fence and …
Heroes of Hedonism, by Alphonso MayfieldTo attend a 2 Live Crew concert is to experience a mixture of hedonism and mass hysteria. Between the kick of 808 drum patterns and thongs moving to the rhythmic swing of the music, who would guess this group had …
Take That, Joe LiebermanAfter all the talk-show babble of the last couple days about Howard Dean being such a "far-left" candidate, it's a relief to see a New York Times story today that actually explores his hard-to-define independence—which may well be drawing much …
Haley Barbour's New "Democrat-Lover" NastygramJuly 30, 2003: Gubernatorial hopeful, and former national GOP party head, Haley Barbour seems more stressed about Davidian challenger Mitch Tyner than you'd think. A rather breathtaking nasty-politics flyer landed in the JFP PO box this morning. In a tone …
New answers up from Max PhillipsI have to say, two of the agriculture commissioner candidates, both Republicans, are leading the pack on substantive questionnaires as far as I can see. You've got to go read the very thoughtful answers of Max Phillips and Roger Crowder …
The (NFL's} Boys of SummerAll of the NFL teams are finally in training camp, even the Bengals, who win about as often as they spend money (rarely). ... Training camp has changed over the years. Players don't go to get in shape the way …
Musgrove statement to JFP, more Klotz answers postedThis morning, we posted a statement from Gov. Musgrove on the Politics Blog addressing several of the substantive issues in our questionnaire. And House 66 candidate Chris Klotz sent over his free-expression answers, which we added to his page. (We're …
The Kobe Case: O.J. ReturnsSports Illustrated's Roy S. Johnson writes what a lot of people are thinking: Kobe Bryant is new O.J. Does this mean that Bryant is going to spend the rest of his life on golf courses looking for the real culprit?
[Talk] eVoting Next for State<i>Hurry, you only have until Monday, July 28, to get in your two-cents about Mississippi's voting upgrades.</i>
Hollywood Horse StoryThis week's big movie release is a sports flick, "Seabiscuit" (not to be confused with the Shirley Temple movie). The reviews are mostly good, but the Washington Post's Stephen Hunter says the movie's populist fable is at odds with the …