Jackson Free Press

There's never a slow news week in Jackson, Miss., and last week was no exception. Here are the local stories JFP reporters brought you in case you missed them:

1. Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance, said President Obama's executive action on immigration represented a departure for Democratic officials—including Obama himself, who deported record numbers of people—who he said have a tendency to kowtow to conservatives on immigration issues.
2. Wednesday night, the Chokwe Lumumba Center for Economic Democracy and Development opened to the public with its first public event: a town hall meeting about protests in Ferguson, Mo., sparked by the police killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown in August.
3. A federal appeals court said Thursday that it won't reconsider its earlier ruling that a 2012 Mississippi abortion law is unconstitutional. The decision means the law remains blocked and Mississippi's only abortion clinic remains open.
4. State legislators have failed to provide resources to public schools in the amount they previously agreed was necessary for students to receive an adequate education.
5. City Council President De’Keither Stamps said that the recent fire at the state-owned Ag Museum, which Jackson fire crews extinguished, is a prime example of why the state should be kicking in to pay for public safety.
6. Democrats say that removing the Mississippi Department of Corrections from the state personnel board for one year, which eliminated some 600 workers, reduced transparency and helped breed corruption at the agency that recently became the subject of bribery allegations.
7. While a federal district judge in Mississippi may soon rule that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right, the legalization of same-sex marriage in the state is in the hands of the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals and, ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court.
8. With the holiday season approaching, the Outlets of Mississippi and Northpark Mall are both preparing a number of events to celebrate the season.
9. The Hinds County supervisors are calling on the local district attorney and the state attorney general to sanction the county election commission for failure to order the number of ballots state law requires for the Nov. 4 general election.
10. Republican Gov. Phil Bryant said Monday that he wants to cut income taxes for some Mississippians earning less than $53,000 a year as part of his 2016 budget proposal.

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