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The drive to raise taxes on Belhaven property owners began last night.  The Greater Belhaven Foundation posted on its website:

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State Auditor Shad White issued the following statement. 

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JPD issued the following statement. 

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Well, somebody reads this website at Jackson City Hall.  JJ reported yesterday that the city had not updated the crime reports on its website since February.   JJ submitted a public records request over a month ago for the most recent UCR report and received the report for.... July.  The post got someone's attention because guess what appeared on the website just a few hours later?

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Need some SEC football?  Check out Matt Wyatt's analysis of the Mississippi State-Tennessee and Florida-LSU games below.

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The Pearl River Valley Water Supply District issued the following statement.

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Ouch. Someone managed to flip a city of Jackson truck.  Hopefully, no one was hurt.  Credit for photos goes to one Mr. Austin Chappell.

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The Antar Lumumba administration clamped down on all crime information despite repeated proclamations about being more transparent on crime. The city of Jackson posted weekly crime reports on its website for years.  However, the crime reports disappeared from the website for nearly a year after Mayor Lumumba assumed the purple.  The weekly Comstat reports returned in November 2018 but disappeared in February.

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Say some prayers for Mike Sands.  He posted an update about his condition on Facebook and well, things aren't looking too good for him.  He wrote:

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Madison County Sheriff Deputies arrested James Kirby Devault yesterday for the deaths of Jack Harper and Bobby Lenoir last year on Highway 463 in Madison.  The two men were driving motorcycles when Devault allegedly and fatally struck them while driving in July 2018.  It is alleged he drove into incoming traffic while reaching for his phone.  He struck two other motorcycles as well.

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The Mississippi Department of Corrections issued the following statement. 

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The Jackson City Council voted to settle a lawsuit with the Jackson Zoological Society last night.  The settlement ends the Society's 36 year tenure of operating the Jackson Zoo.   The city sued the society after negotiations broke down over the donation of the animal collection and the collection of a $6 million water bill. Posted below is a recording of the "negotiations.". It is very short.

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JPD issued the following statement. 

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The 2019 Mississippi general election is less than three weeks away and politicians are talking about a plethora of issues, but there no serious discussion of one of the state’s entrenched and shameful realities – the banishment of far too many of the state’s mentally ill to jail cells.

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The Justice Department issued the following statement and photo. 

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First, Marshall Ramsey somehow managed to offend a few people in a cartoon about the Jackson Zoo yesterday:

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Just when you think they couldn't top themselves, the folks at SEC Shorts did it again this week  and in less than 48 hours.  Enjoy.

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As expected, Jackson's new ordinance aimed at abortion protestors is going to court.  The Mississippi Institute for Justice announced yesterday it will sue the city of Jackson:

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USA Swimming permanently revoked the coaching privileges for  Savannah Reis.  She and her husband Fernando are the coaches of Performance Elite Aquatics in Madison County.  A Rankin County grand jury recently indicted her for two counts of sexual battery.  The victim was a male teen swimmer at PEAQ.    The organization's website states:

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Insurance Commish Miguel Chaney issued the following statement. 

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Today is Columbus Day.  Celebrate this important day in Italian-American history:

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The Justice Department issued the following statement on October 9:

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You.can't.make.this.up.  Don't be surprised if pulling guns on people ends in adverse consequences that just happen to be of the deadly variety.

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From the sacred to the profane....  Bill Maher and Howard Stern together..... uncut, unedit, unplugged:

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The late Dr. Frank Pollard preached on the parable of the workers who grumbled after being paid the same as each other, regardless of hours worked.  Enjoy today's edition of Sunday Morning Sermon. 

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Did you get a glimpse Mississippi's invisible black hole? It briefly appeared over the past year in the Bigger Pie Forum, an Associated Press article by Jeff Amy, and the Jackson Jambalaya blog.

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The Madison Police Department issued the following statement.

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Posted below are the most recent financial statements for the Jackson Zoological Society.  Needless to say, they are not pretty.  The fiscal year is from October 1 to September 30.  The final attendance for FY 2019 was 48,114.  It was 73,000 in 2018 and 101,000 in 2017.  Read 'em and weep.

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Incoming Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens might have his own share of #metoo problems.  The Appeal, a website dedicated to criminal justice issues, reported an EEOC complaint was filed against Mr. Owens:

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The Jackson Zoological Society and city of Jackson settled a lawsuit this morning.  Justin Vicory reported in the Clarion-Ledger:

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Just in case you can't get more annoyed at the deluge of pumpkin spice references that seem to occur earlier every year, here is a completely obnoxious video from the folks at It's a Southern Thing that extolls the virtues of pumpkin spice. Enjoy.

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JPD issued the following statement.

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The Chief of Staff at the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics had enough and called it quits this week.  MBN Chief of Staff Allison Killibrew pulled no punches in her resignation letter: 

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The Delbert Hosemann for Lieutenant Governor campaign issued the following statement. 

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Never let it be said that the Commissioners for the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority don't know how to have a good time.  The spending records of its recent trip to Paris are filled with Eiffel Tower dinners, expensive hotels, and other high-falootin' ways.  Justin Vicery reported in the Clarion-Ledger today:

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The Jackson City Council has been quite busy lately.  However, one little matter escaped the media's attention.  The City Council created it's own creed and passed it at last week's meeting.

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Mississippi is one of the few states in the South that bans dogs from restaurant patios. A controversy arose this year about restaurants allowing dogs in patios and other outdoor areas.  What is common in other states is illegal in Mississippi.

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Today, at a press conference surrounded by public school teachers in Gulfport, Tate Reeves released his plan to raise teacher pay, become the best state in the country for paying national board certified teachers with the most national board certified teachers, increase teacher supply funding, and more.

"I don’t traffic in false promises of unlimited free money from the government. When I make a promise, I keep it. You can take it to the bank," Tate Reeves said at the event. "This plan represents my commitment to our teachers. It is based on months of research and planning to determine what we can afford, with an eye towards aggressive investment in our educators."

The plan can be found at https://tatereeves.com/issues/teacher-pay-plan/ and below.

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MDOT issued the following statement on I-20 closures in Hinds County:

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Lord Protector James Hood issued the following proclamation. 

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The city of Jackson issued the following statement. 

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What was it about Alabama fans bragging about class?

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In a recent column, I wrote about the major time in Mississippi history that an obscure Mississippi constitutional relic from the days of “Jim Crow” laws came to electoral fruition in deciding a statewide election.

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Billy Neville passed away today at the age of 79.  The founder of The Rogue moved on to the great haberdashery in the sky.  Godspeed, sir.

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Just when PERS clears a hurdle, it runs into another one.  A PERS consultant recommended making several changes to the public employees retirement system that will place it a little  more into the financial hole.  PERS funding level has hovered between 64% and 58% over the last ten years despite two increases in employer contributions and adequate market returns. 

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