Dan Gilgoff, an editor at U.S. News and World Report and author of “The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America Are Winning the Culture War,” spills ink in the Dallas Morning News on Mississippi gubernatorial candidate John Arthur Eaves. Gilgoff is intrigued by the Democrat’s unabashed conservative stands on issues such as abortion and gam(bl)ing.
Don Woodward, a Mississippi native and ad director for Alabama’s Advertiser-Gleam for four decades, died Monday at age 77.
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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