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Calif. Court Rules Against the Sanctity of Marriage

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Biloxi mayor says gambling provides new trucks and new jobs to all Tunica residents . . . Really?

Rob Chambers

Biloxi mayor gives gambling a positive spin in recent article, Presidential politics likely to impact gambling landscape:

A.J. Holloway, the four-term mayor of the city of Biloxi, said he doesn’t know the politics of Alabama, but Mississippi had to do something. He’s talking about casinos. “We were the poor state,” he said last week after one of the conferences of the Southern Gaming Summit held at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum & Convention Center.  “This has been a big boom for Mississippi.” He cites Tunica in the Mississippi Delta… Read Full Article

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Heartbreak: A Reality Check on Gambling in Tunica

Grace Thornton

‘Heartbreak’ shift a daily reality for gambling facilities nationwide

The dazzling lights of nine casinos flood miles of farmland in the Mississippi Delta, blasting across the region as if they had more to compete with than a few catfish ponds and cotton fields.

Nothing hinders the casinos’ glow in the flat expanse of Tunica County, Miss. For the poverty-stricken area, the lustrous resort complex is the moon that rises every night in the west, glimmering in the Mississippi River on one side and penetrating the shadows of pawnshops on the other.

The area’s financial… Read Full Article

Tasting the Forbidden Fruit

Bob Terry - May 14, 2008

God promised it would happen. “You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die,” God cautioned Adam in Genesis 2:17. But Adam and Eve did not believe the warning. They concluded they knew more than God did and ate the forbidden fruit.

You know what happened next. Their innocence died and they hid behind fig leaves. Their relationship to each other died, and Adam blamed Eve for his problems, while Eve blamed the serpent. Their relationship to God died, and they hid from… Read Full Article

A Transformed Life, Transforms Many More Through Mission First

By Staff - Taken from “Mission First: Illumination” Issue I Fall 2007

The name Lorenzo Bailey is synonymous with words like successful, intelligent, poised and star athlete.  This former Mr. Jim Hill High School turned Millsaps College senior psychology major is the captain of the varsity men’s basketball team, a scholar and a role model for young boys and girls in the Metro-Jackson area.  However, the man Bailey is today is not the result of an easy, privileged life. It is the result of a difficult life transformed by the investment of many individuals like Coach Willis Bridges, director of sports and adolescent ministries at Mission First in downtown Jackson.

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