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Weekly Mississippi Link, with a circulation of about 3,000, has won the right to publish the City of Jackson’s public notices (the politically correct term for what those of us in the biz know as “legals”) after a protracted struggle with The Clarion-Ledger that began when Mayor Frank Melton vetoed the city council’s original decision to use the small newspaper rather than the large daily. The Jackson Advocate also bid on the right to publish the notices, which mean thousands of dollars in revenue for the winning newspaper.

Editor and Publisher, via The Associated Press, has picked up on the controversy generated by the sex column Pillow Talk, appearing in The Student Printz newspaper at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Dennis Palmer, 42, has been named publisher of The Selma Times-Journal, selmatimesjournal.com and The Dollar Saver and president of Selma Newspapers, Inc. Palmer has served the past four years as publisher of The Greenville Advocate and affiliated publications in Georgiana, Fort Deposit and Luverne. Prior to that he managed the Houston Times-Post (now Chickasaw Journal) and Calhoun City Monitor-Herald.

Pulitzer prize winner, Ira B. Harkey Jr., 88, died Sunday from complications of Parkinson’s disease at the Parson’s Nursing Home in Kerrville, Texas. When Harkey received the Pulitzer in 1963, he had been editor/publisher of The Chronicle Star (now The Mississippi Press) for 14 years. The Pulitzer Prize was awarded for his editorial writing during the integration of the University of Mississippi. His editorials were recognized as courageous and devoted to the processes of law and reason during the integration crisis in Mississippi in 1962.