City Issues Boil Water Notice
Due to lack of water pressure, the city of Jackson has issued what they are calling a "precautionary" boil-water notice Friday, Sept. 28 for the following areas: Lucedale Street, Canton Club Court, Canton Park Drive, Riviera Drive, Kinder Drive, N Canton Club Circle, Barkwood Court, Beechcrest Street, Beechcrest Drive, Sedgwick ...
Pearl Teen Still Needs Kidney Transplant
Vickie Stanford called me today. Her 15-year-old son Brennan needs a kidney, and there are no signs of match anywhere in sight. The JFP featured Brennan as a Person of the Day in April. You can read the story here: POD: Brennan Stanford Vickie said today that the Tulane University ...
NFL Refs Are Back
The NFL announced Thursday that the referee lockout that never should have happened in the first place is over. And only three weeks too late. The final play from scrimmage in Monday night's game between Seattle and Green Bay has been replayed, reviewed and evaluated by every media outlet in ...
Assault Rifles: Only at Walmart
Thanks to the economic downturn, it's a buyer's market for a lot of products: houses are cheap, food is relatively inexpensive (although experts are predicting a bacon shortage of apocalyptic proportions) and now, at Jackson-area Walmart stores, you can even get a pretty good deal on a weapon that shoots ...
Big Business = Big Buckets of Cash
The website Remapping Debate has posted a story titled "Brother, Can you Spare $829 Billion?" On it, your can see just how much the top public corporations are hoarding ... er, holding. So how much pump-priming could America’s largest corporations achieve if they were to dig into their cash and ...
Frank Bluntson, Twitter Trend Setter?
Nobody tweets like Ward 4 Councilman Frank Bluntson
Meredith Denied Ole Miss Enrollment 50 Years Ago Today
Fifty years ago today, Gov. Ross R. Barnett blocked African-American student James Meredith from enrolling at the University of Mississippi. Meredith's appearance on the Oxford campus sparked violent protests and prompted President John F. Kennedy to dispatch federal troops to Mississippi. Barnett was fined and, later, a body of water ...
Reflecting on the JFP's Mission As We Turn 10
I swear: The last decade feels like a blur. It's been such a ride here at the Jackson Free Press. As we've been putting together the birthday issue that hit the streets today, we went through 10 years of issues. I also re-read our old business plan, mission, cause statement: ...