Chris Cillizza of The Fix at WashingtonPost.com also covers John Thune: The discovery of John Thune
For months — if not years — the Republican/conservative smart set has been looking for a fresh face on which to hang their hopes and dreams.
South Dakota Sen. John Thune may be that person.
Cillizza [...]
Miss. State Hospital November service award recipients include: (first row, l to r) Alta Marie King, 5 years; Kaye Myers, 10 years; Tamela Sanders, 10 years; Wanda Berry, 10 years, (second row, l to r) Lenoir Walker, 5 years; Joseph Crain, 5 years; Sylvester Huntley, 15 years; and [...]
Annika Wade, of Utica, Miss., has been named Mississippi State Hospital’s (MSH) November 2009 Employee of the Month for Direct Care employees.
Wade is a residential service program supervisor for Mississippi State Hospital, where she has worked for 14 years.
The MSH Employee of the Month [...]
Sharron Mills, of Jackson, has been named Mississippi State Hospital’s (MSH) November 2009 Employee of the Month for Support Services.
Mills works in Environmental Services at Mississippi State Hospital, where she has been employed for 23 years.
The MSH Employee of the Month award recognizes employees [...]
The Clarion Ledger has a story about Robert Johnson’s birthplace in Hazelhurst. Local officials claim to have discovered it:
His birthplace, however, has been verified. The seminal bluesman came into the world in 1911 in a well-crafted home built by his stepfather in Hazlehurst.
Now, 71 years after his death, local [...]
During the Clinton Years (1993-2000) Republicans very effectively contrasted the differences between the Republican and Democratic parties. Newt Gingrich and Haley Barbour used that contrast in politics and ideas to capture the Congress for Republicans for the first time in forty years. And the Republican National Committee worked to translate [...]
Two hundred thirty-four years, today.
The Commercial Appeal has a long analysis piece about the problems of the Delta. Reading along, I thought some of the observations didn’t ring true, then hit this: “Population appears to be dropping. Although the overall decline since 2000 is small…” I thought: What? Last year, after thinking the [...]