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All, CNN Money editor Amy Haimerl — a very good friend of mine and the JFP — is working on CNN Money’s “real people” galleries. In advance of the inauguration, she is looking for people with good ideas about how Obama can help common Americans in these trying economic times. What should he do to fix the economy? What should he leave alone?

A big fan of Jackson, she wants to get our voices in there. So just send her your thoughts at [e-mail missing].

Amy will be in town this weekend doing a piece on the city (and covering the Convention Center opening stuff) for Fortune Small Business. Perhaps we should give her the key to the city while she’s here!?!

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#142848 | Author: DonnaLadd | Date: Jan 13 2009

Founding Editor Donna Ladd is a writer, journalist and editor from Philadelphia, Miss., a graduate of Mississippi State University and later the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she was an alumni award recipient in 2021. She writes about racism/whiteness, poverty, gender, violence, journalism and the criminal justice system. She contributes long-form features and essays to The Guardian when she has time, and was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Jackson Free Press. She co-founded the statewide nonprofit Mississippi Free Press with Kimberly Griffin in March 2020, and the Mississippi Business Journal named her one of the state's top CEOs in 2024. Read more at donnaladd.com, follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @donnerkay and email her at donna@mississippifreepress.org.