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Six Easy Ways to Support Your Local Farmers

Supporting our small farmers strengthens the local economy, is better for the environment and leads to better public-health outcomes.

Republican Women Defecting to Kerry

Leigh Flayton writes in Salon about Republican women planning to vote for John Kerry this year due to George W. Bush's extremism: "Judith Allen, longtime Arizonan and lifelong Republican, says …

‘The Kundi Collection,’ Graphic Tees Bearing Bold Statements

Have you ever made a great comment and thought, "I should put that on a T-shirt"? Brad and Funmi Franklin have had those moments many a time and have since …

Eco-Campus

On cold Virginia evenings at the College of William and Mary, mittened passers-by on the sidewalk below my second-story dorm room window could see me wearing my favorite lightweight striped …

State Agencies Could Face One-Year Ban on Buying Vehicles

Mississippi could put the brakes on the purchase of vehicles for most state government agencies for one year.

Jackson State to Borrow $10 Million to Buy Apartments

A unit of Jackson State University will borrow up to $10 million to buy a 444-bed apartment complex next to its campus.

Apple Stock Hits All-Time High, Everything Else In Waiting Mode

Stocks nosed higher, but trading was light, even by the slumberous standards of August. The investors who weren't on vacation were biding their time until a big speech Friday by …

How Local Businesses are Handling COVID-19

The COVID-19 outbreak is causing mass temporary closures of local businesses across the spectrum. Fortunately, plenty of those businesses have stepped up to help their employees and their communities in …

FIGMENT Organizers Call for Participation

Organizers of the May 14-15 FIGMENT art festival will host a party to rally support and participation for the event this weekend. At Koinonia Coffee House's Friday Forum this morning, …

Lucas Simmons

Jackson's beer culture has vastly improved in the last 10 years, thanks in part to Lucas Simmons and the company he helped start: Lucky Town Brewing Company.

The Revolving Third-grade Gate

Thousands of Mississippi's third graders will sit in front of computers later this month to take the statewide reading test, but the eyes of teachers and administrators at Finch Elementary …

No Minors Allowed

I had only eaten half of my French fries at Fenian's one night when they asked me to leave. I was in the back watching Fatman Squeeze with some friends. …

Finding An Organic Balance

The very day after I got my driver's license, my mother handed me the keys to her forest-green minivan and gave me a grocery list. I thought getting my license …

Climate Coverage Soars in 2013, Spurred by Energy, Weather

Coverage of climate change issues jumped in 2013, fueled by reporting on energy issues—fracking, pipelines, oilsands—and a heavy dose of wacky weather worldwide.

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Anywhere But Here

We went crazy in June and painted our sun porch Martha Stewart Monarch Red, a brilliant terra-cotta that glows like a furnace when viewed from the street. It was our …

It's the Trade Deficit, Stupid

Great story in the Nation by Thomas Geoghegan, called What Would Keynes Do? outlines a problem in the U.S. economy that not enough people -- either conservatives or liberals or …

High-stakes Fight Over Soybeans at High Court

The court case poses the question of whether Vernon Hugh Bowman's actions violated Monsanto's patent rights.

Chef Buys Into Downtown's Promise

For the sixth year in a row, Mississippi has earned the title of the most obese state in the nation, according to The Trust for America's Health's annual study.

The Pulpit of Bacon

It's no secret that I love bacon. Granted, I hardly ever eat or even buy pork bacon anymore. Instead, I stock the refrigerator with turkey bacon.

Maze of Gun Laws in U.S. Hurts Gun Control Efforts

There is a legal avenue to try to get any gun you want somewhere in the U.S., thanks to the maze of gun statutes across the country and the lack …