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New 6/10: Clinton Public School District. 5/24: Brunson Green and Tate Taylor. 5/14: The Jackson Horns. 1/15: Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services. 1/11: Mark W. Rushing Agency. 8/13: Mississippi settler, Louis Durant. 8/4: The Jelly Roll Kings (blues trio) with video, actor Channing Tatum, the The Oxford Eagle newspaper, Charleston High School, and updates to Mississippi movies. 7/30: New featured business, Intechra. 7/27: Mississippi artist, Ed McGowin; the new Miss Mississippi, Anna Tadlock; and Ocean Springs actor, Marco St. John 7/16: Featured blog, Preservation in Mississippi. 7/13: Independent film, Mississippi Damned, 7/10: Children’s book author and photographer, Sarah C. Campbell, artist Vicki Niolet and singer/songwriter, Steve Azar 7/8: Steve McNair, video update for Viking Range Corporation. More Greenwood updates – the Alluvian Hotel, Mockingbird Bakery, Viking Hospitality Group, Cotton Row District, and Fred Carl, Jr. 7/7: Pocahontas, Mississippi and Big D's Teepee BBQ Restaurant. 7/6: David Kimbrough concert video. Highlight video added to "Syko" Shane Coats. 7/4: Take the Mississippi Wiki Blues Quiz on Facebook. 6/27: Comedian Jerry Clower, the community of Vossburg, actor Tom Lester (Eb on Green Acres and "Leadco Shuffle"), and new business category Bed and Breakfasts. 6/25: 217 Mississippi blogs now listed. New articles on Sarabella's Southern Sauces and Natchez songwriter, Tommy Polk. 6/20: New short film, Beyond the Forest. 6/18: Former Miss Mississippis, Kimberly Morgan and Christine Kozlowski. 6/14: Salmon Site, location of underground nuclear test detonations in the 1960s. With video. 6/11: Bobby Rush blues video. 6/10: New Featured Picture of the Standard Life Building building. 6/6: Carrie's Coffee House and Fulton portrait artist Alison Schuchs, Oxford alt-country band, Blue Mountain. 6/5: Young Tupelo Weeds actress, Allie Grant. 6/4: "Arts in the City with Soul" video to Jackson and music video from Beanland, The Kudzu Kings, Eden Brent and Jimmy Buffett. 6/3: New article and music video from Vicksburg actress, singer and dancer, Katherine Bailess.
Featured Picture
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| The King Edward Hotel in downtown Jackson was re-opened to the public on December 17, 2009, following an extensive renovation.
Prior to the renovation, the hotel building had been vacant for more than 40 years. The hotel features 186 hotel rooms, 56 luxury apartments, a signature restaurant, bar coffee shop and some retail space the King Edward Hotel. The renovation was completed by the development team of Watkins Partners and Deuce McAllister and majority-owner New Orleans-based HRI Properties, a company which specializes in the revitalization of historic structures.
Photo by Tate Nations.
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Featured Blog
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| The Cooking Bride is a food blog written by Delta State graduate, Lisa LaFontaine Bynum, a recently married resident of the Jackson area. Bynum writes a food column for the Jackson Free Press and is working on a cookbook, which she plans to have completed by the time she is 30. The Cooking Bride is regularly updated with well-written posts, recipes, and high-quality photography.
Check it out: The Cooking Bride.
See also: List of Mississippi Blogs
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Featured Business
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| Intechra is an IT asset disposition company based in Jackson, Mississippi. The company is the largest electronics lifecycle management company in the U.S., offering its clients comprehensive range of IT asset disposition, value recovery, and computer recycling services. Their clients include more than 100 Fortune 500 companies, many small and mid-sized businesses, and a number of cities and schools.
By offering a standardized and secure means for disposing retired IT assets, Intechra enables companies to keep computers and other related products out of landfills, where their various component materials can become environmental hazards. Intechra adheres to a zero-landfill policy for E-waste. Assets are recycled following all U.S. EPA guidelines and recycling partners follow the Intechra Pledge of Product Stewardship, in addition to all federal, state, and local guidelines.
Intechra also protects its clients from data security risks, ensuring that all corporate data and software are effectively cleaned from retired hard drives to Department of Defense standards. Intechra also helps its clients recover value from their retired IT assets by selling refurbished products through the company's dealer channels, its 15,000-square-foot Intechra Retail Store, the Intechra Outlet website, other Internet B2C sites, and through direct sales to large volume buyers.
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