
Month: October 2008


Friday, September 26, 2008: historically, a new day for Mississippi
OXFORD, Miss. – It’s Friday night, September 26, 2008 and roughly 15 minutes before the ‘great debate’— the first 2008 presidential debate between candidates Sens. Barack Obama (D) of Illinois and John McCain (R) of Arizona. […]

HIV-positive Jackson residents’ real stories take stage at Alamo
On Friday, Sept. 26, in the stillness of the evening from 8 pm to 10 pm, Americans were hugging their television sets to listen to the presidential debate on the Ole Miss campus. Amidst house […]

Jackson State students cover events surrounding presidential debate
An estimated 3,000 national and international journalists flocked to Oxford, Miss. last week to have a glimpse of history and the mania surrounding the 2008 presidential debate on foreign affairs. Among them were 10 mass […]

Some facts adrift in vice presidential debate
WASHINGTON – Republican Sarah Palin criticized a version of a Barack Obama health care plan that doesn’t exist and Democrat Joe Biden clung to a misleading charge about Republicans and big oil when the two […]

Senate to Force House’s Hand on Bailout
WASHINGTON (Oct. 1) – President Bush’s plan to rescue U.S. financial markets is headed for a Senate vote Wednesday night after leaders there agreed to add tax breaks for businesses and the middle class and […]