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Beau Rivage guest rooms go smoke-free
Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi has banned smoking in its 1,740 hotel rooms. The move is based on feedback from hotel guests, spokeswoman Mary Cracchiolo-Spain told The Sun-Herald. Smoking...
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CARTER: Target greed — not Mississippi — for Chicago’s mounting gun tragedies
Here’s a statement that came out of Capitol Hill Wednesday that bears some scrutiny by an enterprising police reporter from the Magnolia State: Over the last 10 to 12 years, Mississippi supplied one...
View ArticleWith fewer guns to buy, Mississippi sees big drop in background checks
Gun sales slowed in Mississippi in January based on federal background checks, though sellers say the decline is more a symptom of short supplies of firearms rather than waning demand. The Associated...
View ArticleCarnival cancels 12 more cruises on Galveston-based ship of despair
Carnival Cruise Lines has canceled voyages through April aboard the Triumph, a ship that has been plagued by mechanical problems in recent weeks and was finally left powerless in the Gulf of Mexico...
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Mississippi Economic Council tour wants ideas on making business better
The Mississippi Economic Council Insight Tour has a couple of more weeks to go before arriving in Hattiesburg on March 1 for its final stop. The tour, which began in Gulfport on Jan. 24, is gathering...
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CARTER: Just another Carnival bummer
This Carnival business and its drifting ship of horrors is so not a surprise to me. Valentine’s Day or not, I don’t figure Carnival Cruise Line is getting much love from those poor souls aboard the...
View ArticleTaste of the U puts food & fun front-and-center at Med Mall Saturday
Food, drinks and costumes from far-flung volcanic islands to nearby Louisiana swamps will transform the Jackson Medical Mall into a massive multi-theme party and fundraiser on Saturday, Feb. 23,...
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Ranks of Bryant’s Medicaid holdout partners thins as Fla.’s Scott takes deal
The number of governors refusing to accept the federal offer of hundreds of millions of dollars for expanding Medicaid to their state’s working poor is dwindling, with Florida Gov. Rick Scott...
View ArticleWhite House: Miss. education, social services, defense jobs will bear brunt...
Here is the White House says the across-the-board automatic budget cuts set to begin Friday under the fiscal sequester deal between Congress and the Obama Administration will mean for Mississippi. The...
View ArticleAtlanta lays claim to Dixie’s ‘Most Miserable’ metropolis
The late humorist Lewis Grizzard had a standard refrain for Northerners who complained about life in his beloved Atlanta: “Delta is ready when you are.” For a little variation, he would sometimes...
View ArticleSenate Rejects Last Sequester Bills
Time for Plan B! Wait, there is no Plan B? As expected, the Senate rejected rival bills aimed at preventing the looming sequester Thursday, meaning that $85 billion in automatic spending cuts will...
View ArticleHospital execs strike urgent note with time running out for Medicaid plan
The Mississippi Legislature is set to adjourn April 7 with no deal in sight on a federal offer to expand Medicaid. The ticking clock has executives of hospitals around the state worried that time will...
View ArticleNew liver for Jackson woman clears way for frequent transplants at UMMC
In an operation that saved a Jackson mother whose condition verged on death, a team at the University of Mississippi Medical Center earlier this month successfully completed the state’s first liver...
View ArticleSenator wants ‘Cruise Ship Bill of Rights’
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York wants to command the high seas with a “Cruise Ship Bill of Rights” that would force the cruise ship industry to adopt a plan that would “guarantee sanitary...
View ArticleArkansas option gains steam as states look for Medicaid expansion alternatives
Three weeks ago, when Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe was in Washington for the National Governors Association meeting, he made a trip to Health and Human Services. Beebe had an unusual Obamacare proposal....
View ArticleHow healthy is your Mississippi county? As a state, Mississippi ranks last —...
The healthiest Mississippians live in Desoto County and the least healthiest in the Delta’s Quitman County. Those are among the conclusions in the fourth annual County Health Rankings released...
View ArticleCVS pharmacy chain wants its workers’ fat facts
One of the country’s largest pharmacy chains is asking its workers to find out how fat they are and then disclose it to their insurance provider. Not only is that company, CVS Caremark, telling workers...
View ArticleWhite House shows new flexibility on Medicaid expansion options
The White House is encouraging skeptical state officials to expand Medicaid by subsidizing the purchase of private insurance for low-income people, even though that approach might be somewhat more...
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OP-ED — Emmerich: Google is full of bovine manure
Google has started a big “Go Paperless in 2013” campaign. Paper, they say, is bad for the environment. It’s high time someone called bovine manure on this. Trees are organic. Trees are renewable. Tree...
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OUR VIEW — The simple answer: Jackson needs the Department of Revenue
“The new normal.” Those are an awful trio of words the nation’s nagging economic slump has left us with. They mark a concession that we are prepared to live with things that are less good than before,...
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