Jackson Free Press

Overwhelmed Locals, Hesitant Feds

A New York Times analysis dissects what went wrong last week in Louisiana:

UPDATED/URGENT: What to Donate NOW in Jackson/on the Coast

This thread orginally started Tuesday, Aug. 30, and has been updated over the last several days. Be sure to read the comments to the bottom to determine the way you …

Hark: Who Goes There?

Here's an account by two paramedics in New Orleans to attend a conference who were trapped during the hurricane. It rather debunks the excuse that the people stranded there could …

Voices in the Storm

The Nation has a collection of very telling quotes from the last two weeks:

Essay: ‘The Uses of Disaster'

A compelling essay by Rebecca Solnit in Harpers:

BLOC PARTY TO ISSUE REMIX LP AND RETURN TO THE STATES!!

If you're anything like us, you've nearly worn out your copy of Bloc Party's Silent Alarm, one of 2005's breakthrough albums, with repeated listens. But now, thanks to Vice Records …

Diarrhea kills 4 in Katrina's wake

Deadly disease is spreading on the Gulf Coast:

LOTT: FEMA should be a "freestanding agency…"

AP reports:

Lott didn't want to blame anyone for the government's response to the disaster, saying he doesn't want to "bite the hand" that's trying to save him. His own home in …

Feds Trying to Block Media from New Orleans?

NBC's Brian Williams write on the site blog:

An interesting dynamic is taking shape in this city, not altogether positive: after days of rampant lawlessness (making for what I think most would agree was an impossible job for …

[Johnson] An Imperfect Storm

I'm sitting in my modest but comfortable Fondren home on a Saturday night, nursing a summer cold. My power is finally back on; my AC, television and Internet are working, …

Supernatural

Razputin, the psychic son of a circus trapeze artist, runs away from home to enter Whispering Rock Summer Camp, a training facility for possible psychic secret agents, the "Psychonauts." Using …

The Hope Sleeps Tonight

What a week of pure, unadulterated emotion. As we put out this issue—the first one with power and resources and staff fully restored—I am spent due to what I've seen, …

[Stiggers] Caught Looting? Call Cootie McBride

Here's an important message from the McBride family representing the Ghetto Science Team's Emergency Assistance Task Force.

‘This Don't Make No Sense'

The tone was tense at a hastily called Sept. 2 emergency briefing between City Council members and Jackson Mayor Frank Melton. Though slow to release public statements in the days …

The Tails of Katrina

They may become one of the largest set of casualties, evacuees and victims without family, homes, shelter, food, water and medicine. They are the dogs, cats, birds, pot-bellied pigs, horses, …

Alone And Forgotten

Novella Buckley's house is a nondescript brick and asbestos shingle structure, tucked away on the corner of Woodrow Wilson and Morton Avenue, just knocking on the very edges of the …

Anthony DiFatta

Tony DiFatta is something. I met Tony, 38, not too long before we started the Jackson Free Press, and he came on board immediately. He did the art for our …

Aquarium Rescue Unit Founder at Hal & Mal's

In a career that has spanned nearly two decades, the man who is best known as the purveyor of psychedelic hickhop bluesgrass, brings his newly incarnated BLUEGROUND UNDERGRASS to Hal …

Christopher Hitchens on Katrina and Bush's Response

The neo-cons' favorite Brit did an interview with Austrailian Broadcasting Corp. yesterday that won't fly so well with Bush supporters. Here's an excerpt, but read the whole thing:

Chertoff: Hurricane, Then Floods A ‘Surprise'

CNN is reporting:

Defending the U.S. government's response to Hurricane Katrina, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff argued Saturday that government planners did not predict such a disaster ever could occur. But in fact, …