In case you missed it, hurricane season “started” Friday. But the hype and hysteria began weeks earlier.
The eggheads are, of course, feeding the hyperbole by making predictions for a dire season. They predicted the same last year, too, but were about as accurate as the lone nut who ceremoniously, but rather unsuccessfully, pinpointed the exact date and time of a Memphis earthquake some 17 years ago.
The Associated Press, The Clarion-Ledger and The Commercial Appeal all reported developers of a the $2 billion Riverbend Project in DeSoto County have met by the hair of their chinny-chin-chin he deadline to quality for $173 million in state incentives.
DePauw University Professor John Dittmer has been interviewed by The Clarion-Ledger for perspective on a cache of new Ku Klux Klan documents that has recently surfaced. Dittmer is author of “Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi.”
The Sun Herald has asked a federal judge to return to Harrison County copies of inmate-abuse complaints and the videotaped beating of inmate Jessie Lee Williams Jr. The request was filed Thursday, one day after a Harrison County judge said the materials were public record under Mississippi law.
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