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Jackson Metro Area Starbucks Closings
I guess that tells a story within a story, it looks like 4 out of 5 Starbucks within a 10 mile or so radius are closing in the Jackson Metro area. I have been living here for 11 years and I am still amazed at how this city stays alive. Of course in a lot of ways, it doesn’t.
I have 2 teenagers and their list of things to do just keeps shrinking almost daily. About the only thing that they have to do is go to the movies or go swimming at Ross Barnett Reservoir. So let’s see, go see [...]
DCist Listening Party: The Oranges Band Are Invisible
Baltimore's The Oranges Band have been plugging away for the better part of a decade, somewhat quietly releasing catchy and scrappy indie rock records with left-field touchstones sure to perk the ears of the dedicated obscurist. 2006's The World and Everything In It was a truly underrated record -- an almost-perfect marriage of post-punk and bittersweet pop melody. After some lineup changes, the band's finally recorded its follow-up, The Oranges Band Are Invisible, set for release in February 2
The Obama ‘Landslide’ Impact
By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS - In late 1998 I asked L. Keith Bulen what he thought about President Clinton and he responded, “Best candidate I’ve ever thought, heard or dreamed of.” As you read the data and impressions emanating last Monday from the Bulen Symposium on American Politics as well as some of our own, ponder what the legendary Republican operative might have thought about Barack Obama. The last time a Democrat carried Indiana was 1964 and it was that LBJ blowout of Barry Goldwat
All Mixed Up
All Mixed Up My daily commute involves four modes: walking, cycling, rail, and bus. The total round trip is approximately 60 miles, with 12 miles on the bike, and 2.5 miles on foot. The rest of the trip is equally divided between the train and bus. In the morning, I ride my bike to the train station, store it in a bike locker, ride the train into the city, and walk to work from the train station. In the afternoon, I walk from work to the bus station, take a bus back to the train station near
What Happens When the Veil Falls
Washington DC is a forest. I take for granted how many trees there are here, how much green can accumulate overhead during the course of our swampy summers in this city in which no building can be taller than the Capitol. When autumn arrives, the leaves change color. Then they fall. And fall, and fall ... and ... fall, tracing in their own way the downward, inward flowing energy of this time of year. Streets that are cool and dark in deep shade all summer long, like 10th Street between Mass
Fourth Time's a Charm
In reply to Rabbit Jump: 1916: Horse King at Show Splendid Card of Sixteen Events Holds Opening-Day Throng With the paddocks at the horse show grounds filled to capacity with the East's elite of thoroughbred horses, with a band playing popular melodies to an endless stream of local and visiting horse lovers, the fifth annual National Capitol horse show yesterday afternoon opened its five-day card of showings under a streaming sun. The show will resume tomorrow and continue daily through Wed
Day Four: “Retarded Nations”
So my checked bag decided to spend an extra night in our connection city of Miami, but it finally arrived in Latin America! Can you really blame it. Miami is beautiful, even if only viewed through an airport window. This morning we met up with the rest of crew for the week. Louis our mini-bus driver, Richard the still photographer, Marcos our translator and the three members of our American video team. They rented an SUV at the airport for remote filming and ended up wandering around
Obamas choose private school
By Tim Redmond It should come as no surprise, but the Obamas have decided to send their kids to Sidwell Friends, a $21,000-a-year private school in DC. It shouldn't bother me, but it does. And I can't believe how many comments and letters I've gotten about my last column on this. Most of the people writing in say that (a) it's the Obamas own damn business and I shouldn't criticize them for where they choose to educate their kids and (b) only a private school like Sidwell, which is used to ha
Rivalry week Big Ten preview
The final week of Big Ten play has almost turned into a youth soccer league. I say that because it seems like everybody gets a trophy, including the winner of 3-8 Purdue vs. 3-8 Indiana. For the first time in a couple of years, there is no rivalry trophy at stake in the Michigan-Ohio State game as the Big Ten title is not at stake there (unless Michigan State beats Penn State). That Penn State-Michigan State contest offers the rare double trophy game, as they play for the Land Grant trophy. I kn
As 'new World Order' Shapes Up, Fear Is That An Anti-christ Spirit Will Control It
AS 'NEW WORLD ORDER' SHAPES UP, FEAR IS THAT AN ANTI-CHRIST SPIRIT WILL CONTROL IT Those who have long awaited a new world order and a personage of evil who might take control of such an order (especially if that order is under a global government) can be excused for special attention to recent events. Even Newsweek (albeit skeptically) is looking at the issue of anti-christ. In a remarkably and even astonishingly short time, talk of reorganizing the international scene has permeated
Odds And Ends
Odds And Ends November 21, 2008 Yet another New Yorker for Obama's cabinet: Federal Reserve Governor Timothy Geithner. John Heilemann thinks Obama's decision to tap Hillary Clinton as SoS demonstrates he has "nerve." Clinton knew accepting the job was "the right thing to do," but needed to "sit with it for a bit to make sure," according to one adviser. Bill Clinton will have to get his overseas travel and speeches pre-approved as a condition of his wife becoming SoS. More than 200,000
Safer Inaugural Rentals?
For those looking to make a buck off their (probably) Ikea-optimized Northwest townhouse during inauguration week, there’s now an alternative to anonymous/sketchy negotiations made over Craigslist. D.C. area native and “mortgage guy” Andre Butters and a few of his friends have launched www.inauguralhomes.com. “We’re like a match.com for people coming in and out of the city,” Butters explains. The site, a place “where area residents can list their properties for rent and visitors to the Nation
Debt Rattle, November 21 2008: Treading Lukewarm Water
G. G. Bain Wall Street Blood September 16, 1920 Aftermath of the explosion that killed dozens of people in New York's financial district, when a horse wagon loaded with dynamite and iron sash weights blew up in front of the J.P. Morgan bank at 23 Wall Street. The attack, which was attributed to Italian anarchists, was never solved. Ilargi: Look, I already told you he has to go, but you, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, you just let him lie to you time after time. And you just sit there pretending
Preparing for Office : Obama's Studying Vlad the Impaler
Preparing for Office : Obama's Studying Vlad the Impaler Obama getting some tips on Capitol Hill "vlad-handing" from the master? Obama reading biography of Vlad but spokesman quickly dismisses any plans to impale. By Jerry and Joe Long / November 26, 2008 Also see 'Past Legends Pass on Past Lessons' by Rod Reyes, below.WASHINGTON -- In what could signal a major departure from the conciliatory tone of Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team Of Rivals, aides to President-elect Obama today confirmed that
Musing over Mortality
By Eddie GriffinFriday, November 21, 2008Today would have been the day I marked the remembrance of the late John F. Kennedy, the only president I ever saw in the flesh, exactly 45 years ago. But instead, I mark this day with the remembrance of Aunt Birdie who passed away on last night. She was 91 years old.History, it seems, is passing before my eyes and it makes me meditate upon the meaning of mortality, because I realize that on any give day I may go up on my own sick bed and never come down.A
National and International Headlines for November 21
Headlines from Democracynow.org, a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 650 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. S&P 500 Index Falls to Lowest Level in 11 Years Stocks plunged on Wall Street Thursday for a second straight day. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell to its lowest level in eleven years. The S&P 500 is now more than 52 percent below its October 2007 record high, making the current bear mar
Ira Artman’s Sterling Slivers: Crime and Resettlement
Source: IDuke, Wikimedia Commons - Markham Suburbs, Nov 2005. “CRA is not the culprit behind the subprime mortgage lending abuses, or the broader credit quality issues in the marketplace…” “Indeed, the lenders most prominently associated with subprime mortgage lending abuses and high rates of foreclosure are lenders not subject to CRA. A recent study of 2006 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data showed that banks subject to CRA and their affiliates originated or purc
GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - November 21, 2008
GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips for November 21, 2008 includes news and commentaries on the following topics: Republican Party candidates, elected officials, party leaders, and events Republican Party platform issues including promoting a strong national defense, respect for the rule of law, individual responsibilitiy, traditional values, etc. Illinois budget problems and more...DIERSEN QUESTION: Foreign countries, foreign organizations, and foreign people always put their own interests ahe
Nation’s Capital Implements Measures Violating Rights & Property
As the nation’s capital, Washington DC is often looked to for various approaches on how to handle a number of growing issues around the country. Usually government eggheads like to formulate their grandiose schemes from their comfortable halls of power and impose them upon areas of the heartland so far from scrutinizing eyes that very few end up seeing what is actually going on. However, there are now a number of policies being implemented within the city that will soon be at the forefront of
Homeless Man Applies For Federal Bailout Money
Congress Split On Whether ‘Crazy Frank’ Should Get $25 Billion In Taxpayer Funds Crazy Frank is well-known to many New Yorkers. He can usually be found screaming incomprehensibly at commuters from a grate above the 34th Street subway station. Frank was on Capitol Hill yesterday and faced a Congress which was split on whether or not Frank should be given $25 billion. Frank testified he was entitled to be propped up, both physically and financially, due to the bad decisions he has made throughou
Proponents Announce New Strategy On Display of Nativity Scenes
CBN News yesterday reported that two Christian groups have come up with a new holiday display strategy. The National Clergy Council and the Christian Defense Coalition have begun "The Nativity Project." It encourages individuals to display nativity scenes in public places such as city halls, state capitol buildings and other public buildings. Project promoters say that "as individual citizens" these displays can be put up-- sometimes with, and sometimes without a permit. While not explicit on th
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