opinion
BILL MINOR: Mississippi’s political scene lacks female contenders
Last week marked 90 years since the 19th Amendment – women’s suffrage – was adopted.
11 hrs ago | 1 1 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
DAVID BRODER: Pennsylvanians set to break and make political trends
When Pennsylvanians go to the polls on Nov. 2, they will have to do more than choose a new governor.
11 hrs ago | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
PATSY R. BRUMFIELD: Sanctioned racial splits aren’t good
Go figure: We recently learned that at least one school in our area was still electing student officers according to race.
13 hrs ago | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
EDITORIAL: Reducing pollution
TVA outlines specific plans for idling nine coal-fired units.
1 day 12 hrs ago | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Glenn Beck waves as he arrives to speak at his Restoring Honor rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Saturday.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) DR. ED HOLLIDAY: Enjoying insider status at the Glenn Beck rally
Last Saturday I was blessed to be a part of the Restoring Honor rally.
1 day 12 hrs ago | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
MARTY RUSSELL: Without beer’s discovery, we wouldn’t be here
Faulkner hit the nail on the head when he supposedly said, “Civilization began with distillation.”
1 day 12 hrs ago | 2 2 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
KATHLEEN PARKER: Beck’s rally further served his personal journey of recovery
Despite all the words spilled in evaluating Glenn Beck’s tent-less revival last weekend, the real meaning may have been hiding in plain sight.
1 day 12 hrs ago | 1 1 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
An Iraqi police officer stands at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday. Iraqi forces are vastly improved and attacks have plummeted since the dark days of 2006 and 2007. But rarely a day goes by without some loss of life, and spectacular attacks such as the violence on Wednesday that killed 56 people still happen with disturbing regularity. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) EDITORIAL: Iraq combat ends
Seven years need perspective of honest war assessments.
2 days 13 hrs ago | 3 3 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Partner Resources
CHARLIE MITCHELL: What's done with PEER information stands as most important
by Charlie Mitchell
2 days 13 hrs ago | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Pity PEER. Every time a report comes out, the Joint Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review gets pushback from folks who don’t understand what PEER is or what it does.
BOBBY HARRISON: Optimism about America remains possible, needed
by Bobby Harrison / Daily Journal Jackson Bureau
2 days 14 hrs ago | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
But through it all, America has survived and grown stronger.
SHEENA BARNETT: Rebel of the airwaves
by Sheena Barnett / NEMS Daily Journal
2 days 15 hrs ago | 1 1 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
A good piece of advice: Listen to Rebel Radio.
Letters to the Editor
by NEMS Daily Journal
3 days ago | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Letters from the NEMS Daily Journal newspaper.
EDITORIAL: Good intentions
by NEMS Daily Journal
3 days ago | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Race-based student elections helped after integration, now dated.
SID SALTER: Five years later, Gulf Coast moving forward with new realities
by Sid Salter
3 days ago | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
What took Mississippians so long to process after Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast five years ago was the simple fact that the place would in great measure never be the same as it was.
world news
Mexico: Soldiers kill 25 in gunbattle near border (AP)
AP - A shootout between soldiers and purported drug cartel gunmen killed 25 suspects Thursday in northern Nuevo Leon state, near Mexico's border with Texas, the military said.
Thu Sep 02 19:55:39 -0500 2010
Ecuadorean survivor urges migrants to avoid Mexico (AP)

Forensic experts inspect the coffins containing the remains of 16 Hondurans who were killed in Mexico while trying to reach the U.S. border, before returning the bodies to family members in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Wednesday Sept. 1, 2010. The bodies of 72 Central and South American migrants, who were allegedly killed by a Mexican drug cartel, were found within 100 miles of the U.S. border on Aug. 24. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)AP - One of two known survivors of a drug gang's massacre in northern Mexico of 72 undocumented Central and South American migrants urged others in an interview broadcast Thursday not to attempt the journey to the United States.


Thu Sep 02 18:55:51 -0500 2010
Hamas among intractable issues in Mideast talks (AP)

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton looks on as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands as she hosts the re-launch of direct negotiations, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly agreed to push aside the question of Hamas — the Islamic militant group that controls one of the two Palestinian territories and rejects negotiations.


Thu Sep 02 15:06:52 -0500 2010
Mozambique riots spotlight world food price spike (AP)

A woman passes nearby burning tyres in a street in Maputo, Thursday Sept. 2, 2010 a day after police opened fire on stone-throwing crowds who were protesting rising prices in this impoverished country. (AP Photo/Nastasya Tay)AP - A few pennies' increase in the price of a loaf of bread can mean the difference between getting by and going hungry — and erupting in anger — in the world's poorest countries.


Thu Sep 02 17:21:31 -0500 2010