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Check out the PBS celebration of Veterans Day: Salute to Service 2025.  The hour-long program features performances by Trace Atkins, Angel Blue, and Kurt Elling as well as interview with several veterans. Great program. Angel turned in a rather beautiful rendition of The Battle Hymn of the Republic.  Enjoy.  

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Copy of petition posted below. 

Former LSU Head Football Coach Brian Kelly made it clear he wants his money and wants it now.  Coach Kelly filed a petition for declaratory judgment against the LSU Board of Supervisors in the 19th Judicial District of Louisiana yesterday.  The petition accuses the university of reneging on its duty to pay him his $53 million buyout after it fired him without cause in October. Talk about a battle on the bayou.  

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Suspect is Murrah's Defensive Coordinator 

Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey issued the following statement. 

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Or Catch & Release! Squawk! Catch & Release!

Greenbrook Flowers, Pig & Pint, Downtown Snack Shop, Steve's Deli, Downtown Drug Store, Iron Horse Grill, Shiro's, Keifers, La Cazuela, Jaco's Taco's, Stanley Wine & Liquor, Fenians, Downtown Pizza & Daiquiri, Native Coffee, and Snack Shack.  These are the businesses repeatedly burglarized by Hinds County Catch & Release star pupil and downtown bum, John Arthur Banks.   Despited pleading guilty six times to hitting Jackson businesses, Banks is set free to terrorize more businesses.  

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 A scumbag student pepper sprayed her teacher not once but three times in the face when he tried to take away her cellphone.  

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 Here are the "C" ratings for Jackson metro area restaurants issued since October 4, 2025.  The Mississippi Department of Health inspects and grades each restaurant.  The department inspects the restaurant again within ten days after the "C" is issued.  More information can be obtained at the MSDH restaurant inspection web page.

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 It's been 50 years since the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank into a tragedy of seafaring lore. 

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 The Mississippi Department of Human Services issued the following statement. 

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 The Capitol Police issued the following statement. 

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 State Auditor Shad White issued the following statement. 

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 JXN Water desperately needs a rate increase but a federal judge questioned its ability to raise collection rates to where they could sustain Jackson's water/sewer system.  

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 There will be no get out of jail free card for Brian Jamal Davis.  Davis stands accused of killing Reginald Brown at the Chevron gas station on Ridgewood Road.  

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 What does the headline mean? It means none other than 70's supergroup Chicago is coming to Brandon. 

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 Who will make the cut on Shark Tank? 

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The halftime show at this football game yesterday was not boring.   

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It's usually fun to see someone else get punished.  It's a flaw in human nature, a conceit.  Well, look at him getting in trouble, it's a good thing I'm not so bad.  Well, don't be so sure because your day may be coming as well.  If this sounds like something out of the book of Amos, that's because it is. The late Dr. Frank Pollard delved into the second chapter of Amos in the 1997 sermon posted below.  Like the prophet's book, the sermon is short but says so much.  Enjoy. 

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In what looked to be a risky move last April, the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra (MSO) hired Flowood Chamber of Commerce executive director Janet Reihle as its new chief executive. Reihle had limited music background (piano) and had attended only a few outdoor orchestral events.

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 All the kid wanted to do was fish.  

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 Millsaps College issued the following statement. 

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Judge Wingate held a status update on the Jackson water system that lasted all day Wednesday  Much was discussed, including JXN Water's proposed rate hike.  Instead of publishing one monster post, JJ is breaking the proceedings down into more manageable bites.  

JXN Water reported eight percent of fire hydrants inspected were not working during a status update on Jackson's water/sewer system in U.S. District Court Wednesday.  

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I’ve been reading Bret Baier’s latest book on American presidents, “To Rescue the American Spirit – Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower.” Among many other endeavors, Bret is anchor of “Special Report with Bret Baier” on Fox News Channel. Baier paints a powerful picture of Roosevelt as a boy stricken with asthma transforming himself into one of the most powerful leaders of America and the Western World.

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 Update: Suspect identified as Ricardo Kirk. 

Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey issued the following statement. 

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 Good job, Starkpatch, good job (sarcasm).  Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports comes to town and this is what he gets.  

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 Check out Every Man a Coach by Louisiana Governor Huey P. Landry. 

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 The Mississippi Department of Public Safety issued the following statement. 

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 Judge Wingate held a status update on the Jackson water system that lasted all day Wednesday  Much was discussed, including JXN Water's proposed rate hike.  Instead of publishing one monster post, JJ is breaking the proceedings down into more manageable bites.  

Jackson's water system has made much progress but might go back to where it once was if allowed to go broke again.  So said JXN Water Manager Ted Henifin in federal court Wednesday.  

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 What is the Street saying about Ladarien Jones and the murder of Hinds County Detention Sergeant James Dotson, Jr? Keep in mind this is all unverified, unconfirmed street talk. 

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 Fall weather means it's a perfect time to fix what else but gumbo!  Check out ZeroBear PolyBear's recipe in a downloadable format posted below.   

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Soul-crushing.  Can't have fun.   Sobbing in bed.  Mental health.  Such was the reaction Harvard students had to possibility the university might crack down on grade-inflation.  

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Update: As promised, the videos were taken down today (Nov. 10).  The post and comments remain.  

A gentlemans' debate took place at Hartsfield Academy recently.  Needless to say, the announcers were not amused. 

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 Judge Wingate held a status update on the Jackson water system that lasted all day yesterday.  Much was discussed, including JXN Water's proposed rate hike.  Instead of publishing one monster post, JJ is going to break yesterday's proceedings into some manageable bites by topic.  

The city of Jackson spent over $10 million on renting pumps for the Savannah Street treatment when purchasing a new one only costs $4 million.  Such revelations occurred during the status conference on Jackson's water/sewer system held yesterday in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate.

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 Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens issued the following statement. 

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 Well, well, well.  Little Ladarien Jones has had a bad day.  

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 The Mississippi Republican Party issued the following statement. 

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 Who will get in? Who gets left out? Who wins? Who loses? 

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LONDON—It shouldn’t work, but it does. Twenty-five Americans, most of them from the South, gathered around a breakfast table in Dublin. It’s the kind of setup that should feel like herding cats, yet, for some reason, it never feels like group travel. My wife and I don’t even like group tours. Though for nine years I’ve been leading them—almost 70 of them with over 1,500 guests—and I’m still wondering why it’s never felt like what we’ve always tried to avoid. I finally figured it out this spring, and it has very little to do with where we go.

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Meet Southside Dee, otherwise known as Ladarien Tyrese Jones, a star graduate of the Hinds County Catch & Release Program.  JPD announced in a press release it is seeking Jones for the murder: 

Jones when a teen-ager

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The “Silver Tsunami” isn’t just a clever turn of phrase—it’s a demographic freight train barreling toward Mississippi’s already strained health care infrastructure. Every day, 10,000 Americans turn 65. By 2030, one in five U.S. residents will be senior citizens. In Mississippi, where chronic illness, poverty, and rural isolation already complicate health care delivery, this wave of aging citizens threatens to swamp the system.

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Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones will remain Interim JPD Chief as Mayor John Horhn seeks a new police chief. 

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 Millsaps College issued the following statement. 

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 The Reservoir Road Rager (allegedly) will remain in jail after Rankin County Court Judge David Morrow denied him bond at his initial appearance this morning. 

Walter Ainsworth at initial appearance

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 The Gluckstadt Police Department issued the following statement. 

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 The Jackson City Council keeps demonstrating why control of the water/sewer system should not be returned to the city of Jackson.  WLBT reported: 

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This funny ad is making the rounds up in New York City. Yes, New York City. Put down the rope.

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 Some kids at Lake Cormorant High School in Desoto County spoke out against our recent Idiot of the Day in where else but TikTok.  

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Although it didn't get the coveted MICHELIN Star, Elvie's restaurant garnered attention from the famed MICHELIN Guide.   

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 ZeroBear PolyBear's great grandson is doing better.  Things looked really rough for the little guy but Little Samuel is starting to pull through.  The Bear sent an update: 

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 State Auditor Shadrack White issued the following statement. 

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Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones issued the following statement. 

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