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Belhaven, Fondren on House Burglary Alert
Residents of Jackson's Fondren and Belhaven neighborhoods are cautioning their fellow neighbors to be vigilant amid what they're calling a crime spree of house burglaries. Jeff Good, who lives and owns businesses in Fondren, sent out the word on Facebook. "We obviously have a group of criminals stalking our neighborhood …
Obamacare Proving an Early Success in... Kentucky?
The deeply "red" state of Kentucky -- the folks who put both Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul as in Senate (and, excruciatingly, on our TVs) -- is also the only Southern state that has expanded Medicaid in accordance with the Affordable Care Act. They also implemented their own ACA online …
Showdown Over JRA Looms Next Tuesday
The response to the question that will be posed to the Jackson City Council next Tuesday (Oct. 22) is something many people are asking: Is the Jackson Redevelopment Authority still worth having? Ward 3 Councilwoman LaRita Cooper-Stokes has put forward item No. 34, an order by the city council unauthorizing …
Report: "Extreme Concern" Persists at Henley-Young
The latest court monitoring report for the Hinds County's Henley-Young Juvenile Justice Center shows "the facility continues to have "major developmental needs in many areas.” The Southern Poverty Law Center and Disability Rights Mississippi filed a class-action lawsuit in 2011 that alleged Henley-Young's staff members subjected the children to physical …
JSU's Homecoming Game Cancelled
Jackson State will not play a homecoming game this season. Here's what is happening instead.
Will Jackson Get Boost from $1 trillion in Black Spending?
Over the weekend, Black Enterprise magazine reported that the spending power of the nation's 43 million African Americans is expected to top $1 trillion by 2015. BE cites a report that will be presented at a June 2014 meeting of the National Association of Black Accountants Conference. The report found …
Lucky Town Clears Zoning Hurdle, Craft Beermaking Returns to Jackson
Lucky Town Brewing Co. is reporting on its Facebook page that the startup microbrewery received unanimous zoning approval to move into a building in midtown. Lucky Town—which started making more of its own beer in 2012 after a successful Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign—is one of only a handful of breweries operating …
Mike Chaney: BCBS, HMA Reach Deal
Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney announced a deal in an ongoing dispute between Hospital Management Associates and BlueCross & BlueShield of Mississippi. Here's Chaney's statement: "I am very pleased that Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi moved forward today October 21, 2013 to recognize four HMA hospitals for network …
The Deweycare Government Health-Care Takeover in Full Swing
When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. — Thomas Jefferson This afternoon, Gov. Phil Bryant followed through on his promise to issue an executive order for BlueCross & BlueShield of Mississippi to accept 10 Hospital Management Associates facilities into …
Cooper-Stokes Balks at Her Own Motion
In an odd turn of events last night, Ward 3 Councilwoman LaRita Cooper-Stokes balked at a chance to bring her own motion to "unauthorize" the Jackson Redevelopment Authority forward, even though all she had to do was second a fellow council member who had already moved to adopt her motion. …
Horhn Praises City Leaders on 1-Percent Sales Tax
Mississippi State Sen. John Horhn was singing the praises of Mayor Chokwe Lumumba and the Jackson City Council Wednesday afternoon, a day after they moved forward on a motion to put to referendum vote a proposed 1-percent sales tax. He released this statement: "I would like to applaud the Jackson …
MoJo: Chris McDaniel Spoke at Confederate Ball; McDaniel Denies: I Was at an ALEC Event
Mother Jones, the liberal investigative-news magazine that broke the story of Mitt Romney's 47 percent remark during the presidential campaign, is now taking aim at Mississippi politics. MoJo reports that in August, state Sen. Chris McDaniel, who last week announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate, addressed a "a neo-Confederate …
Hood Charges 6 With Selling Illegal Contacts
We just received this release from Attorney General Jim Hood's office: An undercover operation has resulted in several arrests and numerous businesses facing allegations of unauthorized dispensing of contact lenses, announced Attorney General Jim Hood today. Investigators with the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection and Public Integrity Divisions, working with the …
City Announces Temporary Cooper Road Closing
The City of Jackson has announced that the 1200 block of Cooper Road in south Jackson will be closed Nov. 4-6 while crews replace a cross drain for maintenance purposes. Detour signs will be posted and motorists are advised to proceed through the area with caution.
Jackson, a Twentysomething's Haven
Like a proud mother watching her child's first foray into the spotlight to glowing reviews, we at the JFP love to send links around the office of national stories realizing what we already know (that Jackson is pretty cool). Here are a couple stories circling our in-boxes this week: The …
Surprise, surprise: Tea Party Express to endorse Chris McDaniel over Thad Cochran
Just got the press alert, verbatim. (OK, they didn't say "McDaniel" below, but you know.) MEDIA ALERT: TEA PARTY EXPRESS TO MAKE MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT ON MISSISSIPPI'S U.S. SENATE RACE TOMORROW SACRAMENTO, CA – Tea Party Express, the nation’s largest Tea Party political action committee, will hold a press conference in …