OK, you can relax Detroit Tigers fans. Your collection of Triple-A castoffs in major-league uniforms won’t replace the 1962 New York Mets as modern baseball’s worst team. Still, as regular season ends on Sunday and the playoffs begin on Tuesday, Slate’s Allen Barra writes that it’s time to stop believing the hype: Baseball is more competitive than it’s ever been, no matter what Bud Selig and his lackeys in the mainstream press say.
Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.
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