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The Commercial Dispatch (cdispatch.com)
Leigh Mall in decline: LINK, city push for better strategy as 44-year-old retail staple continues to lose stores
July 29, 2017
Twelve years after Tom Cruise starred in Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds," a poster heralding the film's summer 2005 release still hangs outside the vacant, one-screen movie theater in Leigh Mall that closed shortly after the film arrived.
Joyce Good walks by the poster, as well as almost a dozen other storefronts in Leigh Mall that are either closing or are already out of business, almost every day.
Painting the town: Thirty-eight, and counting, barn quilts decorate Lowndes County
January 13, 2018
Drive down rural roads just over a year from now, and you may pass more than a hundred four-by-four-foot wood pallets covered in hues of reds, blues, oranges, purples and greens mounted on churches, barns and fences across Lowndes County.
That's the vision, at least, of Caledonia resident Rita Williams, the mastermind behind a colorful project she calls the Buttahatchee Barn Quilt Trail, named after the Tombigbee tributary running through northeast Mississippi and into Alabama.
Oktibbeha County residents plead with supervisors for Longview Road paving
July 03, 2018
In Oktibbeha County, just southwest of Starkville, Mississippi sits a "dusty, dirty road."
That's how county residents living on Longview Road described the more than four-mile stretch of dirt and gravel connecting Highway 12 to Old Highway 25.
"People can't see because it's so dusty," said Longview resident Peggy Robertson. "It could cause an accident."
A little help goes a long way
January 08, 2018
Two years ago, now 32-year-old Maria was living in a car with her three kids. When her car no longer worked, she dropped it at a repair shop, where the vehicle has sat ever since. She and her kids hopped from an aunt's house to a cousin's house to a cousin's mom's house to a friend's.
Maria realizes that had family members not taken her in, she might be on the street. And after having a fourth child last year, she couldn't stand to have her little ones -- now ages 13, 10, seven and three months -- brace freezing temperatures come winter.
August 13, 2016
Charlotte Holmes lived in a quaint, two-story house in Caledonia, mowed her own lawn and took care of herself without help.
One day in 2011, she fell.
"We took her to the emergency room. She had fractured her pelvis, and within 24 hours, she went from a perfectly sound mind to thinking she was on a train," said Holmes' daughter, Yvonne Burns.
The Maroon (loyolamaroon.com)
Former U.S. secretary of state visits Tulane to talk about fascism
February 13, 2019
Before she was a teenager, Madeleine Albright, now 81, had fled two forms of fascism—Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939 and a communist regime in her home country in 1948, the same year her family immigrated to the United States.
Albright, who in 1997 became the United States’ first female secretary of state, visited Tulane University on Tuesday, Feb. 12 to discuss those experiences and her most recent book, “Fascism: A Warning.” To a standing-room-only crowd ...
New SGA chief-of-staff hopes to take “behind-the-scenes” approach to position
January 24, 2019
The hole left in SGA’s cabinet after an unexpected resignation last semester has been filled, according to Sierra Ambrose, Student Government Association president.
Ambrose has chosen Derrick Ransom II, history sophomore, to serve as the chief-of-staff, following the Dec. 11 resignation of former Chief-of-Staff Fallon Chiasson. Ransom was appointed to the position Dec. 12.
Tulane receives complaint alleging its Newcomb College Institute discriminates against men
November 01, 2018
Tulane University recently received notice that a complaint has been filed against the school’s Newcomb College Institute alleging the institute discriminates against men. That’s according to an email sent to members of the student body by Julie Henriquez Aldana, the institute’s director of student leadership and engagement.
The Times-Picayune (nola.com)
September 21, 2017
For those who know Cincinnati native Marc Phelps well, his aspiration to break a world record was no surprise.
Phelps, who has traveled by motorcycle across the continental United States and climbed a Himalayan mountain, decided earlier this year it was time to check another item off his bucket list, and he did so Sept. 16 when he arrived in the Crescent City - the final stop of his 21-day trip down the Mighty Mississippi.
The New Orleans Advocate (theadvocate.com)
Uptown Messenger (uptownmessenger.com)
Facility upkeep, job creation and special programming in store if millage proposal is approved
May 01, 2019
New Orleanians will decide the fate Saturday of a city proposal to redistribute parks and recreation funds. And while many city residents might gloss over the plan’s fine print, involved parks and rec organizations say the proposal is an effort to improve the quality of life of New Orleans residents.
“It’s vital, and it’s no fluff,” said Ann Mcdonald, director of the city’s Department of Parks and Parkways.
Nine New Orleans shops to participate in Record Store Day 2019
April 12, 2019
According to record-store owner Lee Rea, “If art imitates life, then the record shop should be an epicenter for local culture.”
Rea is co-owner, along with his mother and sister, of the mom-and-pop record shop Peaches Records on Magazine Street. Peaches, opened in 1975 by Rea’s father, is one of nine independently owned record stores in New Orleans participating in the 12th annual Record Store Day this Saturday.