September 2008

State legislators are looking into the health of Mississippi Banks. MPB's Lawayne Childrey reports.

Sweet potatoes are serious business in Mississippi, but growers have felt the pinch of wet weather and higher production costs. MPB's Jordan Witt has this story on how growers have managed .

Housing Foreclosures have driven financial institutions to bankruptcy and without a Wall Street bailout, Main street Mississippi will continue to feel the affects. MPB's Lawayne Childrey reports.

After much debate and anxiety, an individual declaration of disaster was passed late last week for three Mississippi counties, but all that waiting took its toll on those residents. MPB's Phoebe Judge reports.

Ever wondered what foreign correspondents tell their audience back home about an event in your own backyard? MPB's Sandra Knispel asked around at the media tent in Oxford right after the first presidential debate concluded next door at the Gertrude Ford Center.

According to a national publication If you want to visit one of the coolest record stores in the country, you can travel to Los Angeles, Chicago or Atlanta. Or as MPB's arts reporter Ron Brown tells us, you can take a shorter drive, right to the heart of the Mississippi Delta.

The first Presidential debate is only hours away, and prominent broadcaster Tom Brokaw was at the University of Mississippi to offer his insights for an evening. MPB's Jordan Witt has the story.

Republican candidate John McCain said yesterday he was suspending his campaign to deal with the nation's economic crisis, and will not attend Friday night's debate in Oxford unless an economic bailout deal has been reached by then. MPB's Sandra Knispel reports from Oxford.

The next American President will have a lot of repairing to do in the international arena. That was the consensus of last night's panel discussion of international journalists at the University of Mississippi. MPB's Sandra Knispel has more on how American politics are viewed abroad.