Archive for March 10th, 2007

Melton meltdown: Ramsey’s archive

Saturday, March 10th, 2007
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Can’t get enough of Frank Melton? Yeah, we thought so. Whether or not you’ve had it up to your eyebrows with the whole circus, Marhsall Ramsey’s Internet-archive of his work on the Frank Melton Saga is always entertaining. Recently updated, too.

Toyota: National press loves Tupelo

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

Daily Journal features editor Leslie Criss comments on the national press’ love affair with Tupelo, which, in case you haven’t heard, laid the golden egg for Gov. Haley Barbour landed a rather notable industry last week.

In a related story, The Commercial Appeal pinpoints the three crucial factors that gave Tupelo the edge in the race to lure Toyota. Oh, what a feeling!

Booze marketers beware: Ban proposed

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

Full-page ads in college newspapers this week, including The Daily Mississippian at Ole Miss, call on university leaders, athletic conferences and the NCAA to “stop the madness” by banning alcohol marketing from college sports.

In another completely unrelated story totally lacking in irony, The University of Mississippi received a $300,000 grant from Anheuser-Busch officials to combat underage and abusive drinking at the Oxford school.

Photogs donate time, talent to Katrina vics

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

A group of Pennsylvania newspaper photographers has been offering free portraits to victims of Hurricane Katrina. WLOX-TV reports the trio is hoping to “ease the pain” of some of those devastated by the storm.

Dispatches

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

Rick Kennedy, a former publisher in Yazoo City, is now in Lakeport, Calif. as managing editor of the Lake County Record-Bee