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JACKSON, Mississippi – A new study finds more than seven in 10 Mississippi adults read a printed daily, Sunday or weekly newspaper during an average week. The findings are part of a new study announced by the Mississippi Press Association and conducted by American Opinion Research of Princeton, NJ. “This is equal to 1.5 million [...]

When all of the dignitaries line for the first pitch at the new minor league baseball stadium in Biloxi next April they should be doing it on a field named for Barry Lyons. Sure, there will be naming rights for the stadium just like in Pearl at Trustmark Park where the Mississippi Braves play. However, [...]

The Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Florida — When forecasters from the National Weather Service track a hurricane, they use models from several different supercomputers located around the world to make their predictions. Some of those models are more accurate than others. During Hurricane Sandy last October, the model from the European Center for Medium-range Weather [...]

I don’t live in Jackson, but neither do most of the folks on my Facebook feed. That didn’t stop them from ranting about the outcome of the Jackson mayoral primary. The Facebook equivalent of “run for your lives” filled my screen. Shocked posters declared the election had been rigged. » Read complete story here …

According to Outside Magazine’s Scott Rosenfield, a North Carolina couple has traveled to Hawaii to complete a dolphin assisted-birth of their baby, Bodhi, due in July. Despite the lack of science supporting the unusual birthing method, Adam and Heather Barrington hope that a series of prenatal and postnatal swims with dolphins will relax the birthing process. [...]

» Student Journalists Win Award for Hurricane Coverage   From The University of Mississippi OXFORD, Mississippi – A trip to the Gulf Coast to cover Hurricane Isaac has paid off for two University of Mississippi student journalists who won a national award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Margaret Ann Morgan and Stephen Quinn, journalism [...]

My kids, all three of them, are really big fans of President Obama. It has nothing to do with their political affiliation, mind you, considering they are all 8 and under. My 7- and 8-year-olds got to meet him and shake his hand when he was running for president back in ’08, and, from then [...]

Statement from Stacey E. Pickering, State Auditor A Washington, D.C. based organization called Good Jobs First recently released a false and misleading report funded by the United Auto Workers concerning the Nissan plant in Canton. Unfortunately, the report was short on facts and long on estimates. As the UAW has continuously been unsuccessful over the past decade [...]

In this Ted Talk, Simon Sinek gives a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers … (Filmed at TEDxPugetSound.) In 2009, Simon Sinek released the book “Start With Why” — a synopsis of the [...]

If you ever thought solar energy was for barefoot, tofu-eating hippies. You might want to think again. » READ MORE ABOUT WILL HEGMAN … Watch the segment from MPB’s Mississippi Roads about Mississippi solar energy expert Will Hegman. You will be amazed what we can do.