This post was originally published on June 21, 2020.
Crime does indeed pay in Jackson. Hinds County District Attorney asked Circuit Judge Adrienne Wooten to revoke the bond of a first-degree murder suspect even though he later participated in a shootout and is the subject of an ATF investigation for looting a gun store. Judge Wooten denied the request and kept his bond at $20,000.
The folks at SEC Shorts are back for another flight into football season.
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The Pearl Police Department issued the following statement.
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Or (in the Rocky & Bullwinkle narrator voice): Pickett Charged!
The Madison Police Department issued the following statement and mug shot.
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The Jackson State University issued the following statement.
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The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation issued the following statement.
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A Pearl police chase ended in a crash in Flowood. Pearl police chased a vehicle into Pearl. Unfortunately, the suspect struck a motorcycle.
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State Representative Zakiyah Summers recently walked through Jim Hill High School and didn't like what she saw. Check out what she had to say in the August 3 video posted below.
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The body was winding yet the spirit was still strong as the late Dr. Frank Pollard preached in 1999. Enjoy the remedial sermon if you missed church today.
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Gov. Tate Reeves took a strong stance against “socialist experiment programs” two weeks ago, or was he just playing re-election politics?
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The Mississippi Department of Human services will hire downtown law firm Jones Walker to replace attorney Brad Pigott in its clawback lawsuit.
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This post is a reprint of Anna Wolfe's story in Mississippi Today.
Mississippi’s former welfare director said he was acting on behalf of then-Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, text messages indicate, when he funneled $1.3 million into a fitness program that the state is now targeting in its civil lawsuit to recoup millions in misspent federal dollars.
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Years ago I asked my students to take out a piece of paper and make a list of everything that the government was supposed to provide for us. I asked them not to write their names on the paper, but just make a list. This exercise is not original with me. A professor at a university in Florida did this years ago, and I was curious to learn what my students thought. I was also trying to help them find a good persuasive speech topic.
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The Mississippi Highway Patrol issued the following statement and video.
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety (“DPS”), the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol (“MHSP”) and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (“MBI”) have completed all necessary inquiries into an incident involving a state trooper that occurred in McComb on August 5, 2022.
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State Auditor Shad White issued the following statement.
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Former Department of Public Safety Commissioner David Huggins passed away.
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It is often said Mississippi is nothing more than a small club with only a few degrees of separation. What is interesting about the Battle of Blue Cross is how it brought together some of the orbs in the Barksdale universe. While Blue Cross goes after UMMC and Mississippi Today, Barksdale bullion flows to both the hospital and the digital newspaper.
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You simply can't make this up. Jackson dumps over 50 million gallons of raw sewage into streams and street. One would think cleaning up such a mess would take priority, right? Well, WLBT reports a different story:
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The Mississippi State Health Department issued the following statement.
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The Jackson State University issued the following statement.
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Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens issued the following statement.
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Dining outside can be a treat, but it has a way of affecting how we enjoy our meals, which includes wine -- which I consider to be an extra course in the meal.
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Campbell's Bakery gets new owners!!! The Jackson favorite issued the following statement:
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Most of the Jackson media ignored the Anthony Fox trial last week but for Therese Apel. She gave Othor Cain the full story on what took place in the trial last week. The interview is posted below and will probably raise more than a few eyebrows.
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Can't blame the Airport Board for not trying. The Jackson Municipal Airport Authority Board of Commissioners tried yet again to meet last night but was unable to do so because of a lack of a quorum.
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Just some black water flowing at the same place where JJ reported raw sewage flowing on Northside Drive a couple of months ago....
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Have the time of your life one more time as Dirty Dancing returns to Malco and Tinseltown next week for not one, but two nights only.
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Hinds County Circuit Judge Adrienne Wooten wasn't playing around last week in the Anthony Fox trial. Check out the last paragraph of her gag order.
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The Mississippi State Department of Health issued the following statement.
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The Ridgeland Police Department issued the following statement.
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It's time for JJ's annual fund-raising drive. Thank you very much for your support of Jackson Jambalaya and reading the blog over the years. The year was rough thanks to Covid and arm surgery but JJ got through it all thanks to your help last year. Make no mistake, this website could not have made it as far as it has without your support. You've donated money, provided tips, and helped when it was needed.
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Police busted a drug dealing and machine gun operation recently, just a few feet away from where children play golf at the Country Club of Jackson.
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This city is, unquestionably, one of the top five restaurant cities in America. I would imagine that if one were to poll national food critics New Orleans would be listed among the top three. To my taste— and I’ve eaten extensively in most of America’s top restaurant cities— New Orleans is number one. Period. No question. End of discussion.
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The property where the old Meadowbrook McRae's stands may get a new lease on life. Dale Partners Architects announced a new mixed-use development will replace the abandoned department store. The firm announced on Facebook:
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Mississippi Republican U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith are in near-lockstep on their votes – skewing conservative on fiscal and social issues and reflecting the views of their conservative Mississippi constituencies.
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Ruth Cummins authored the following story for UMMC.
In his four and a half years as an emergency medical technician with a rural ambulance service, Zachary Jackson has delivered just one baby – a full-term, healthy little one whose mom did just fine.
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The city of Jackson issued the following statement.
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The videos and reports of the the June meeting of the PERS
Investment Comittee. are posted below* The committee meets bi-monthly and is the
real nuts and bolts of PERS. The reports don't include the bloodbath that took place in the markets in the second quarter of this year but PERS still suffered a -3.5 rate of return at the end of March, shrinking the PERS portfolio by nearly $2 billion. Don't worry, PERS still enjoys assets of $33 billion.
The city of Jackson issued the following statement.
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This post was first published on March 11, 2020.
Hinds County Circuit Judge Adrienne Wooten freed another violent criminal yesterday. Darnell Turner is serving 45 years for strangling the mother of his child, shooting at her, and hanging her from a bridge. Of course, the thug appealed his sentence. He asked Judge Wooten to grant him a bond while he appeals his sentence. The ever-so-gracious Circuit Court Judge ignored the Attorney General's objections and said yes, he could go home if he posted bond. Turner made the $250,000 bond and is no longer in prison.
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The Mississippi Department of Public Safety is investigating an arrest made during a traffic stop in Pike County after video of the arrest surfaced on social media.
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The Mayor of Shreveport pulled a good one. KTBS reported:
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A group of Jackson restaurant owners demanded Jackson and state leaders work together to fix Jackson's water problems at a press conference this afternoon.
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is holding a press conference at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant right now. It is streamed below.
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Millions and millions and millions of gallons of yes, raw sewage flowed into Jackson creeks over the last three months. Jackson reported the overflows in a mandatory quarterly report submitted to the EPA on July 30. The report states 21,812,740 gallons of raw sewage wound up in Town Creek alone while millions of gallons wound up Northeast Jackson creeks as well as Lynch creek. Over 52 million gallons of raw sewage wound up in Jackson creeks.
The Richard's Disposal lawsuit took an interesting little turn as the Jackson City Council accused the Mayor of civil conspiracy in a crossclaim filed Friday.
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Bill Maher took on a subject no one wants to talk about Friday night: obesity. Few say anything about the obesity crisis as no one wants to incur the wrath of the outrage mob. Indeed, the Fat Pride crowd wants to rewrite science in Soviet style so they can hide the destructive nature of their behavior. Check out what Maher had to say below.
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Faith versus reason is an old debate, stretching back to the beginning of human history. The late Dr. Frank Pollard took up the ancient question in the 1994 sermon posted below. Enjoy the sermon.
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