It’s interesting to see how much attention the business world’s service industry, in general, gets for being surly, cantankerous and, in many cases, uninterested. Yet, things never change. We complain to ourselves, our spouses or our friends about specific instances at specific businesses, then — more times than not — we continue to patronize the [...]
Arts Alive will take place May 4-5 at Smith Park in Downtown Jackson. The music, arts and crafts festival is a free festival that promotes both performing and visual arts. It also stimulates the Jackson Metro area to support and boost downtown and it raises awareness of homelessness and supports local charitable organizations such as [...]
Everyone should be pleased that the law worked in the case of A.J. Jefferson and the South Delta Regional Housing Authority … A federal jury has convicted the director of the housing organization on charges of intimidating witnesses in a federal investigation. No sentencing date has been set. >> READ MORE …
Just got off the phone with the EPA in Atlanta, and, according to a media representative, there is no one there who is an expert on the Yazoo Backwater Project. Having said that, a federal appeals court panel sided yesterday with the Environmental Protection Agency over its 2008 veto of a $220 million flood control [...]
My 7-year-old daughter is sitting in my lap last night while my wife and 6-year-old son were cuddled up on the couch as we watched, the recently released-at-home movie “Hugo”. Then, I hear our home phone ringing on the other side of the house. So, I make my daughter scoot over. I get up, wander [...]
At one point during the Academy Awards presentation last week, I was taken aback by the indelible mark Mississippi and Mississippians were making on the film industry at that very moment. Sure everyone knew about “The Help”, and wondered if the Kathryn Stockett book, then turned into a movie could pull the upset and win [...]
In some parts of Mississippi, humans never evolved from cavemen. That is the case in Canton, where city leaders’ lawsuit against Nissan North American for the right to annex the nearby vehicle production plant is scheduled for trial in August. Canton officials say legislation approved in 2000 that prohibits the city from annexing the plant [...]
Government is too involved in our everyday lives. That’s the popular mantra for this political season. Yet, every time we turn around, there is another bill that finds a way to get involved in our everyday lives. This week, it’s a bill that would educate youth sports leaders and participants about concussions and would make [...]
Seriously? Greg Davis wants to pin blame on his alderman for him being an idiot? The only thing the Southaven Board of Aldermen should have done differently in the last several months is for one of them to have taken their mayor out behind the woodshed for a lesson in humility and humanity. Apparently, Southaven [...]
Labels are a hard thing to get rid of. In real life, they have that sticky adhesive that is bound to ruin any piece of clothing if gets attached. In the political and perceptive world, labels are much the same. During the last election cycle, many Mississippi Democrats were labeled as free spenders for voting [...]
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