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QUESTION: He quoted that would "get real ugly." Do you know what that means?

Eminent domain, also known as Initiative 31, has some scratching their heads on what it means, even after it passed with a landslide vote in the Nov. 8 election.  

Eminent domain issues have had a tumultuous history in the state. For example, in 2001, with the Canton Nissan plant, the state government tried to take the private land of Madison County resident Lorenzo Archie through the use of eminent domain and sell it to Nissan. Archie fought the state from taking his land and won.

According to Kimberly Hefling of The Huffington Post, student loan debt in the United States recently surpassed the trillion-dollar mark. Under Obama’s plan, anyone’s student loan payback would be no more than 10 percent of discretionary income, as opposed to 15 percent, and loans would be forgiven after 20 years instead of 25.  

This does not apply to those already in default or to loans from private institutions, like banks, which is great news for me but not for a large majority of that trillion-dollar debt.

The City of Oxford Planning Commission is working to clean up parking on the Square.

The Downtown Parking Advisory Commission, a project that the city has been working on for several months, is still in what some call the beta phase, as the ordinance for its creation had its first public hearing two weeks ago at the board of aldermen meeting.

The Downtown Parking Advisory Commission will be styled after the Stake Holder Committee created in Tacoma, Wash., to deal with fairly similar downtown parking issues.

Driving around until someone gives up a parking spot on the Square may be less of a problem in the future.
The Board of Aldermen started a major change in traffic with the introduction of a new commission that will focus on the city’s parking issues.
An ordinance establishing the Downtown Parking Advisory Commission had it’s first reading at Tuesday’s regular board meeting.

When Kurt Cobain screamed “Here we are now/entertain us” in 1991, he wasn’t exactly looking for a hit. He wasn’t looking for accolades; he wasn’t looking to make some grand statement.
Flash forward 20 years later, and comedian Jon Stewart is hosting a townhall-style forum with Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Butch Vig.  

Just after University of Mississippi classes started Thursday morning, students and alumni were greeted with a message from Chancellor Dan Jones.

It was not a message hoping the students were having a great year thus far, nor was it congratulatory on the freshman class for breaking an ACT record; rather, it was addressing the group Forward Rebels.

I joined the Greek system here with a certain sense of reluctance, unsure of what my commitment to a fraternity would mean.  

However, in the two years I was in a fraternity, I met many of my closest friends and grew as a person through countless positive experiences. This is why I was so frustrated by what I saw and heard in my first recruitment process as a member this past fall. It might be because I am so naive that I never considered why fraternities and sororities are so disproportionately white.  

Of all the forms of communication on this campus, email is at the top of the list. 

Tasks including student to teacher communication and UM Today is communicated through the privately-run Ole Miss webmail system. 

Poise, charisma, substance and electability.

These are four essential qualities any successful presidential candidate must have. In the primary for the 2012 Republican nomination of president, only one candidate has these attributes. That candidate is former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney.

Another serial case of crude crime has struck Oxford. 

However, this lewd criminal didn’t get away with as much as the “Panty Thief.” 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After months of public nastiness and private negotiations, of court filings and rulings, of players and owners squabbling over more than $9 billion a year, NFL fans finally saw the handshake and heard the words they awaited: "Football's back."

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL Players Association head DeMaurice Smith both used that phrase while standing shoulder-to-shoulder Monday, announcing their agreement on a 10-year deal to end the lockout that began in March.