Apartment complex hearing canceled due to 'legal issues'
A public hearing on a proposed apartment complex was canceled due to what Canton officials called "legal issues," but is expected to be rescheduled in about a month.
Several dozen citizens showed up for the City of Canton Zoning Board meeting which was scheduled to hear a rezoning request on the development Tuesday afternoon.
City officials wouldn't elaborate on what issues spurred the cancelation, but they did say they will restart the rezoning process which includes public notification at the site and in the newspaper. It normally takes up to a month to complete the process.
Read more at The Madison County Journal
School Board Opposes Canton Apartments
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Miss. revenues fall 12.6 percent short in May
Barbour said in a news release on Tuesday that May collections were 12.61 percent, or $51 million, below estimates. The governor said the figures show the state hasn't recovered from the national recession, but he has no plans for additional budget cuts at this time.
Barbour said last month was the worst month for Mississippi State Tax Commission collections since May 2009. Collections have been below estimates 20 out of the last 21 months.
Sun Herald
They're finally stepping out into the open.
The idea has been to demonize "Big, Bad, Greedy Evil Corporate America" through statements like this one:
"At a time of corporate dominated media, a free and open Internet is democracy’s last chance to preserve our First Amendment rights without which all others are threatened. Activists call it Net Neutrality. Media scholar Robert McChesney says without it “the Internet would start to look like cable TV (with a) handful of massive companies (controlling) content” enough to have veto power over what’s allowed and what it costs. Progressive web sites and writers would be marginalized or suppressed, and content systematically filtered or banned."
The problem with that is you are replacing a free-market system with a government regulated system. We all know how that works, or should we say, doesn't work. Thankfully, Obama's FCC was stymied in their first attempts by a federal appeals court.
It would appear that the campaign has reached a point that the guerilla's are now deciding to fight face to face.
FCC asked to monitor "hate speech," "misinformation" online
Over thirty organizations want the Federal Communications Commission to open up a probe on "hate speech" and "misinformation" in media. "Hate has developed as a profit-model for syndicated radio and cable television programs masquerading as 'news'," they wrote to the FCC earlier this month.
As for the Internet, it "gives the illusion that news sources have increased, but in fact there are fewer journalists employed now than before," they charge. "Moreover, on the Internet, speakers can hide in the cloak of anonymity, emboldened to say things that they may not say in the public eye."
The groups who want this new proceeding include Free Press, the Media Access Project, Common Cause, the Prometheus Radio Project, and the League of United Latin American Citizens. Their statement, filed in the Commission's Future of Media proceeding, comes in support of a petition to the agency submitted over a year ago by the National Hispanic Media Coalition.
ARS Technica
I guess if you lack the intelligence to argue a point, you can always attempt to shut down those you disagree with. But, wouldn't it be more productive to learn the new medium, and use it effectively to communicate your own point of view, that is, provided you are the type that doesn't have to be told what to think.
US Supreme Court declines to rehear appeal in 1996 Madison County murder
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Azikiwe Kambule, a South African man who wanted to withdraw his guilty plea and stand trial in a much-publicized 1996 Mississippi carjack-murder case.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Tuesday led stand a Mississippi court's rejection last year of Kambule's argument that his plea was involuntary because he did not have a good understanding about the legal proceeding.
Kambule was a teenager in 1996. He argued in court documents that he knew nothing of the U.S. justice system when he entered into a deal in 1997 to plead guilty to charges in the death of social worker Pamela McGill and to accept a 35-year sentence.
Prosecutors said Kambule and Santonia Berry killed McGill in Madison County on Jan. 25, 1996, because they wanted the Jackson woman's red 1993 Dodge Stealth sports car. Her body was found nine weeks later when Berry led authorities to it.
Defense lawyer, Chokwe Lumumba of Canton, said there was no evidence Kambule fired the shots that killed McGill.
Kambule had come to Mississippi two years earlier, when his mother began studying psychology at Jackson State University. His mother and stepfather returned to South Africa several years ago after briefly living in Atlanta.
The case drew international publicity after prosecutors insisted on the death penalty even though Kambule was a teenager at the time of the crime.
A Madison County judge ruled Kambule's sentence could not be tougher than that for Berry, the admitted triggerman. Berry received a life sentence without parole after pleading guilty to capital murder.
Kambule was sentenced to 30 years for armed carjacking and five years to being an accessory after a murder. He did not appeal the sentence.
History
On the evening of 25 January 1996 Ms McGill, 31, was kidnapped at gunpoint outside her home and driven away in her car, never to be seen alive again. Two weeks later a tip led police to Kambule, then aged 17.
He confessed his role in the crime immediately. He said that on the evening in question he had been driving around Jackson with Santonio Berry, then 21. Berry, the driver, followed Ms McGill home, pointed a gun at her head, ordered her into the passenger seat and drove off, with Kambule sitting in the back. Berry stopped the car by some woods on the edge of town and led Ms McGill away. Kambule waited in the car. A few moments later Berry returned without her and the two drove off.
The day he was arrested Kambule led police to the woods where he thought Berry had shot Ms McGill but his recollection was hazy and the body was not found. Berry was arrested soon after. Although he refused initially to co-operate with police, two months later Berry led police to McGill's decomposing body.
Kambule Murder Case
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Tuesday led stand a Mississippi court's rejection last year of Kambule's argument that his plea was involuntary because he did not have a good understanding about the legal proceeding.
Kambule was a teenager in 1996. He argued in court documents that he knew nothing of the U.S. justice system when he entered into a deal in 1997 to plead guilty to charges in the death of social worker Pamela McGill and to accept a 35-year sentence.
Prosecutors said Kambule and Santonia Berry killed McGill in Madison County on Jan. 25, 1996, because they wanted the Jackson woman's red 1993 Dodge Stealth sports car. Her body was found nine weeks later when Berry led authorities to it.
Kambule had come to Mississippi two years earlier, when his mother began studying psychology at Jackson State University. His mother and stepfather returned to South Africa several years ago after briefly living in Atlanta.
The case drew international publicity after prosecutors insisted on the death penalty even though Kambule was a teenager at the time of the crime.
A Madison County judge ruled Kambule's sentence could not be tougher than that for Berry, the admitted triggerman. Berry received a life sentence without parole after pleading guilty to capital murder.
Kambule was sentenced to 30 years for armed carjacking and five years to being an accessory after a murder. He did not appeal the sentence.
History
On the evening of 25 January 1996 Ms McGill, 31, was kidnapped at gunpoint outside her home and driven away in her car, never to be seen alive again. Two weeks later a tip led police to Kambule, then aged 17.
He confessed his role in the crime immediately. He said that on the evening in question he had been driving around Jackson with Santonio Berry, then 21. Berry, the driver, followed Ms McGill home, pointed a gun at her head, ordered her into the passenger seat and drove off, with Kambule sitting in the back. Berry stopped the car by some woods on the edge of town and led Ms McGill away. Kambule waited in the car. A few moments later Berry returned without her and the two drove off.
The day he was arrested Kambule led police to the woods where he thought Berry had shot Ms McGill but his recollection was hazy and the body was not found. Berry was arrested soon after. Although he refused initially to co-operate with police, two months later Berry led police to McGill's decomposing body.
Kambule Murder Case
Tulane-Madison ‘glitch’ cancels classes
MADISON — When a Tulane University satellite campus opens Tuesday in Madison, Miss., only three of the classes that were set for a June start will begin.
Branch director Sherry Chance tells the Madison County Herald that a “bureaucratic glitch” canceled seven summer courses.
Richard Marksbury, dean of Tulane’s School of Continuing Studies, says the U.S. Department of Education has not yet certified the campus as an institution eligible for federal student loans.
He says there was miscommunication between Tulane and the U.S. Department of Education. He says it was not Tulane’s fault.
Marksbury says the three classes beginning on Tuesday will cover both summer semesters, and their students don’t need financial aid to pay the three-hour course fee of $846.
MBJ
Tulane Madison cancels classes
Branch director Sherry Chance tells the Madison County Herald that a “bureaucratic glitch” canceled seven summer courses.
Richard Marksbury, dean of Tulane’s School of Continuing Studies, says the U.S. Department of Education has not yet certified the campus as an institution eligible for federal student loans.
He says there was miscommunication between Tulane and the U.S. Department of Education. He says it was not Tulane’s fault.
Marksbury says the three classes beginning on Tuesday will cover both summer semesters, and their students don’t need financial aid to pay the three-hour course fee of $846.
MBJ
Tulane Madison cancels classes
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