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The popular Dock was torn down to make way for the planned Harbor Walk Development

Still Hope: Cleanup could lead to long planned Harbor Walk development

By Nell Luter Floyd, 3,388 Reads
Tue, 07/20/2021 - 10:39 AM
An almost $1 million environmental cleanup project is expected to start this fall at Barnett Reservoir on the site where the Dock once served food in the day and drinks at night.
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Valuable Metals: Catalytic converter thefts on the rise; Northsider falls victim in Dallas

By Nell Luter Floyd, 2,035 Reads
Tue, 07/20/2021 - 5:00 PM
Northsider Matt Forsyth recently traveled to Dallas for business, spent the night at a hotel near the Northwest Highway and discovered a surprise awaited the next day when he cranked his truck.
“It sounded like a monster truck,” he said of his 2016 Toyota Tundra.
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Storming the Capitol: Thompson's First-Hand Account of Jan. 6 "Insurrection"

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On Tue, 07/20/2021 - 2:00 PM
Congressman Bennie Thompson arrived at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C. on January 6 with the anticipation of watching the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
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City of Brandon's motion to strike testimony in Gold Coast case will be heard August 18

By Steve Wilson - Staff Reporter, 1,740 Reads
Wed, 07/21/2021 - 3:20 PM
Attorneys for the city of Brandon argued in a brief filed in Rankin County Circuit Court that the testimony of an expert witness for Gold Coast Commodities should be struck because of several procedural issues.
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Pat Nelson

A conversation with Nelson on Home Builders Association

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On Tue, 07/20/2021 - 7:00 PM
Pat Nelson is the executive vice president of the Home Builders Association of Mississippi (HBAM), a position he has held since October 2020.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in engineering from Mississippi State University and an MBA from Tulane University.
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Lefleur’s Bluff State Park is getting new playground equipment along with improvements to Museum Boulevard.

Work under way on Museum Boulevard

By Nell Luter Floyd, 1,677 Reads
Thu, 07/22/2021 - 1:00 PM
LeFleur’s Bluff State Park is busy this summer, as improvements to Museum Boulevard, the extension of the Museum to Market Trail and construction of a new playground are under way.
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Elise Winter

Habitat for Humanity mourns death of Elise Winter

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On Thu, 07/22/2021 - 11:46 AM
Habitat for Humanity Mississippi Capital Area (HFHMCA) is mourning the loss of its founder, former Mississippi First Lady Elise Winter.
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Rice Road Project

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On Thu, 07/22/2021 - 5:00 PM
Construction is underway to extend Rice Road from U.S. 52 so it circles into the parking lot at the new Ridgeland City Hall.
“It will be the northern entrance into City Hall,” said Ridgeland Mayor Gene McGee.
Currently, the only entrance to City Hall is off School Street.
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Northsider Bessie Speed's Highlands visitors

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On Tue, 07/20/2021 - 6:46 PM
Northsider Bessie Speed got some surprise visitors at her Highland home the other day.
Her doorbell camera app sent her a text that somebody had broken into her Highlands home.
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Tim Kalich

Slackers on Parole Board?

By Tim Kalich, 1,451 Reads
Fri, 07/16/2021 - 10:06 PM
For the past dozen years, Mississippi has been on a gradually evolving mission to reform its corrections system by incarcerating fewer offenders and more quickly releasing those it does lock up.
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Transportation commission awards contracts throughout state

By Press Release - Mississippi Department of Transportation, 31,491 Reads
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 1:53 PM
Below is a press release from the Mississippi Department of Transportation:
The Mississippi Transportation Commission at its June 8 meeting awarded contracts for maintenance projects throughout Mississippi.
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After a failed first try, the Senate passed a legislative alternative to the medical marijuana program voters approved in November.

Supreme Court refuses to reconsider medical marijuana ruling

By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, 31,489 Reads
Fri, 07/02/2021 - 3:18 PM
A last gasp effort has been rejected to convince the Mississippi Supreme Court to reconsider its landmark decision which struck down the medical marijuana initiative approved by voters in November and the entire ballot initiative process.
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Opinion: For many of us, Father’s Day is a time to remember

By Wyatt Emmerich, 19,289 Reads
Thu, 06/24/2021 - 7:00 PM
It took Father’s Day rolling around to realize I had never written a column on Father’s Day about my father. Although I am a week later, better late than never. My father was 65 when he passed. I will soon be 63.
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Opinion: Wuhan, the Yangtz and the Three Gorges Dam

By Edrie Royals, 14,726 Reads
Sat, 06/26/2021 - 2:00 PM
Our tour group left Shanghai after two days and flew to Wuhan, a place unknown to me and many others in 2017 and now a place the world will never forget. I was immediately impressed by this mega-city located inland to the west of Shanghai.
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Newspapers, journalists honored for excellence

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On Sat, 07/10/2021 - 5:30 PM
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Public Service Commission nearing approval for Cooperative Energy's planned distribution grid upgrade

By Steve Wilson - Staff Writer, 13,812 Reads
Fri, 07/09/2021 - 11:46 AM
The Mississippi Public Service Commission voted at its Thursday meeting to refer a planned improvement to Cooperative Energy’s distribution grid to Chairman Dane Maxwell, who represents the Southern District.
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Mississippi casinos are setting revenue records, outpacing pre-COVID numbers

By Sara DiNatale - Mississippi Today, 10,624 Reads
Thu, 07/01/2021 - 4:22 PM
Mississippi casinos are making more money now than they were before the pandemic, and the Gulf Coast is leading the spike.
Mississippi casinos are reporting a nearly 21% increase in gross gaming revenue so far this year compared to the same period in 2019, according to data from the state Gaming Commission.
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Thompson is Mississippi’s only congressman who voted to ban Confederate statues from U.S. Capitol

By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, 10,067 Reads
Wed, 06/30/2021 - 3:53 PM
Three of Mississippi’s four congressmen either voted against or say they oppose legislation passed by the U.S. House to remove all Confederate monuments from the United States Capitol.
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Tim Kalich

Cindy Hyde-Smith can’t be this clueless

By Tim Kalich, 9,885 Reads
Mon, 07/05/2021 - 8:30 AM
As with most politicians, it’s doubtful that Cindy Hyde-Smith writes the opinion columns sent out under her name.
You would hope, though, that the Republican junior senator from Mississippi reads them.
If she reviewed in advance the one distributed this past week, she should be embarrassed for its cluelessness.
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Attorney general candidate Lynn Fitch speaks during the Madison and Hinds County Republican Women candidate forum at The Lake House in Ridgeland, Miss., Monday, August 26, 2019. Credit: Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For America

New boss same as old boss when it comes to AG using private lawyers

By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, 9,832 Reads
Mon, 07/05/2021 - 12:31 PM
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” — Pete Townshend in The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
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Ribbon Bullies, McCarthy, and Thinkists

By Kelley Williams, 298,111 Reads
Thu, 08/06/2020 - 11:48 AM
There is a classic Seinfeld episode (is that redundant?) in which Kramer marches in an aids walk for charity. Idiosyncratic individual that he is, Kramer declines to wear the aids ribbon which gets him in hot water with his fellow marchers. “Who!
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Thanks COVID, now tailgating is canceled

By Anthony Warren, 251,472 Reads
Thu, 08/20/2020 - 2:31 PM
The Grove and Junction promise to be quiet
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Kelley Williams

Asphidity bags versus face masks

By Kelley Williams, 153,067 Reads
Wed, 07/29/2020 - 3:48 PM
My grandmothers were born in the late 1800’s. They might have worn asphidity bags filled with smelly herbs to ward off colds and other diseases. Many rural folk did then. Some accounts say asphidity bags were used to ward off the Spanish Flu. So were face masks. They may have saved some lives. Who knows?
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Final briefs in lawsuit over governor's vetoes due by November 6

By Steve Wilson, 97,564 Reads
Tue, 10/13/2020 - 6:54 PM
Final briefs in a lawsuit brought by House leaders in a lawsuit over $8 million in earmarks vetoed by Gov.
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Jackson's Dr. Reed Hogan

Reed Hogan's COVID-19 treatment regimen now peer reviewed.

By Wyatt Emmerich, 78,022 Reads
Tue, 09/01/2020 - 2:46 PM
Jackson's own Reed Hogan, a gastroenterologist with GI& Associates, has an inexpensive, available treatment regimen that cuts the risk of death from COVID-19 by up to 40 percent.
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Dr. Kenneth Irvin Cronin

Dr. Kenneth Irvin Cronin

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On Thu, 11/26/2020 - 6:37 PM
Dr. Kenneth Irvin Cronin, 72, was called to his heavenly home on November 24, 2020 after experiencing complications of Covid 19.
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South Sunflower County Hospital Infectious Disease Nurse Henley Harrell (right) administers the first round of the Moderna vaccine to Dr. Eddie Donahoe on Wednesday afternoon.

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Indianola Doctor Who Suffered Effects of COVID Among the First to Get Vaccine at Clinic

By Bryan Davis, 54,876 Reads
Wed, 12/23/2020 - 5:29 PM
When Dr. Eddie Donahoe heard that a COVID-19 vaccine was on the way and had the potential to be available to health care professionals before the end of 2020, he didn’t hesitate to raise his hand to be one of the first to take it.
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Opinion: It’s all relative

By Kelley Williams, 49,767 Reads
Thu, 08/27/2020 - 12:06 PM
Caught up with my friends Sam and Ben over breakfast Saturday morning. As Labor Day is just around the corner, the conversation turned to college football. Followed by a quick turn to life.
Ben: “Can you believe the SEC, ACC, and Big 12 have decided to play football?”
Sam: “Why would they not?”
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Major Madison Roads closed on Monday for Arch Installation

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On Fri, 01/22/2021 - 4:44 PM
Beginning Monday, January 25th at 9am, Old Main Street from Madison Parkway, Highway 463, to the west entrance to the Half Shell Oyster House will be closed in both directions for the installation of Madison's Gateway Arch.
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Daquarius Wright is pictured here after he was arrested this week for the murder of Paul's Jewelry owner Jamie Iverson.

"I Could Not Believe He Walked On This One": Officer Was Stunned Daquarius Wright Was Acquitted In Armed Robbery Case Last October

By Bryan Davis, 44,610 Reads
Fri, 04/30/2021 - 5:17 PM
One of the men charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Paul’s Jewelry owner Jamie Iverson was acquitted in an April 2019 armed robbery of a Family Dollar store in the Jackson area, but according to one of the arresting officers, it was one of the strongest cases he said he had ever taken into a courtroom.
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Northsider Reed Hogan's over-the-counter Covid-19 treatment cuts death rate 25-40%

By Wyatt Emmerich, 442,001 Reads
Tue, 07/07/2020 - 3:28 PM
COVID-19 Treatment Success with a Combination of Two Over-the-Counter Drugs -- Pepcid and Zyrtec
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Governor Reeves explains "Safer at Home" policy

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On Fri, 04/24/2020 - 4:08 PM
On his Facebook post, Gov. Tate Reeves explained that Mississippians are now "encouraged" but not "ordered" to "stay at home as much as possible."
Here is the full text of his Facebook post:
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Biggest injustice in college sports

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On Thu, 06/20/2019 - 9:33 AM
OMAHA — This is written from the College World Series where a packed house of more than 22,000 fans pays to watch each game at sparkling TD Ameritrade Park.
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One world conspiracy

By Kelley Williams, 304,749 Reads
Wed, 05/06/2020 - 2:08 PM
Some people have asked for thoughts on the recent Covid-19 sermon by the Rev Danny Jones of the Northlake Baptist Church, Gainesville GA, that went viral. (https://youtu.be/qUjNKPaQNPg) Here’s my take.
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Ribbon Bullies, McCarthy, and Thinkists

By Kelley Williams, 298,111 Reads
Thu, 08/06/2020 - 11:48 AM
There is a classic Seinfeld episode (is that redundant?) in which Kramer marches in an aids walk for charity. Idiosyncratic individual that he is, Kramer declines to wear the aids ribbon which gets him in hot water with his fellow marchers. “Who!
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Shellye Stanley McCarty

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A celebration of life was held at the First United Methodist Church of Magee February 18 for Shellye Stanley McCarty. The Rev. Barry S. Male officiated. Mary Margaret Hyer was soloist.
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Thanks COVID, now tailgating is canceled

By Anthony Warren, 251,472 Reads
Thu, 08/20/2020 - 2:31 PM
The Grove and Junction promise to be quiet
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Offers Solution: Northsiders form company to address business needs in time of coronavirus

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On Thu, 07/23/2020 - 10:57 AM
Outfitted in white hazmat suits and armed with electro-static backpack sprayers, Ted Dinkins and Bob Crisler looked more the part of Dan Aykroyd or Bill Murray in Ghostbusters.
As the two made their way through Broad Street Baking Company recently, though, they were not looking for the metaphysical or paranormal.
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Rich retiring politicians

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On Mon, 12/18/2017 - 12:43 AM
There will be an unusual push by Mississippi politicians to raise campaign money in the final weeks of December. That’s because a new state law kicks in requiring any campaign money raised after December 31 be used only for political campaign purposes.
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City slated to receive USDA permit next week, hopes to reopen zoo in August

By Anthony Warren, 164,584 Reads
Fri, 07/17/2020 - 3:38 PM
Jackson will soon have the federal permission needed to reopen the Jackson Zoological Park.
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