Jackson Jambalaya

glad I dont live on Sheffield...speed bumps and all!

This is on the section closer to the Post Office.....no speed bumps. However, if you run over a lump on this section of Sheffield, don't slow down to see what it was. You don't want to know what it was.

In other Jackson news today, the C-L reports the Stokes power pair are trying to redraw the ward boundaries to add another black person to the City Council, removing a white one solely because of their complexion.

Thank goodness the two people you mentioned acted quickly to get the city to fix this public health catastrophe. We'll miss them and their results. Too bad they are the wrong color for Jackson/Hinds government.

If seeing your street full of raw human waste isn't a strong enough argument for getting the hell out of Jackson, I don't know what is.
Who wants to raise a family in those conditions? You know it's going to happen again.

3:32, you are correct.....the wrong color and....way too smart. Kenneth Stokes is the biggest dumb ass I have heard speak in my entire life!

So you all don't have to hunt for the article about the proposed ward changes

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20120817/NEWS/208170340/Jackson-wards-proposal-could-bring-big-changes?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Home|s

Nothing that a rebranding campaign can't gloss over.

Tell you what. If the rebranding campaign doesn't work let's spend $100 million dollars in long term debt on a convention center hotel and then throw a Hail Mary with another $150 million debt dollars for a new downtown arena.

Until we can get the daiquiri bars revved up we can't fleece the tourists. And if we can't fleece the tourists then we can't fix the collapsing sewer lines.

Looks like it is time for a new public-private partnership with David Watkins. He does infrastructure. Right?

Nothing dumb about Stokes; he is willing.

Let me add that my family just started renting a house on this side of Sheffield and it has been nothing but hell. I am a life-long Jackson resident and have live on the other side of Sheffield a good part of my life. The incompetence of the City of Jackson is nothing short of outrageous. They tell us that it may be 5-6 months before the very loud pump is removed. Who knows when they'll fix the sinkholes.

If you are renting I'd leave as soon as you can pack the truck. It won't be 5-6 months. Ask the folks in Fondren.

They should pump that sewage on Sheffield in a tanker truck then pump it into into city hall so those buffoons wearing stupid looking hats can enjoy the essence of poo while they preen and posture "leading" the bold new city...

WJTV: Watkins Diverted Tax Dollars

More new revelations in our ongoing I-team investigation into Jackson developer David Watkins and his role in the metrocenter mall project.

We’ve learned tax dollars intended for the renovation of the old Belk building were diverted to another Watkins company.

@3:32, the map you reference proposes to re-draw Ward 7 to make it 70+ percent black. Ward 7 is currently represented by Margaret Barrett Simon, a white democrat senior citizen who refuses to show up for work. She skips the meetings she is being paid to attend, to go to meetings for a meaningless volunteer state committee she sits on.

When Ms. Barrett-Simon actually troubles herself to attend a city council meeting, she contributes nothing and generally sits there like a deer in the headlights.

Margaret Barrett-Simon has treated her paid job on the city council as little more than a status job that gets her attagirls in her haughty social circle. She is ineffective, too old and has been on the city council too damn long.

Therefore, I say gerrymander her butt straight into the retirement home. I bet her black replacement will actually show up for meetings.

curt, you're an idiot on this one.

Raw sewage spewing into the streets of Mississippi's "Capital City ".

Why is anyone surprised ?

The cliche "not if-but when" is so true for this (City with Soul) .

In retrospect, the old days of Dale Danks sporting that year round' tan , chain smoking Kent 100's,
and going through two cans of Men's consort hair spray per day ... don't look so bad.

Jackson in the 1970's & 80's was pretty good.

Curt, don't disagree with your assessment, but there are other optinos than this gerrymandering plan of the Stokes's.

Lets make the ward a reasonable "swing ward" and get someone to run that will attend to business yet maintain a balance on the council. I think MBS has been there long enough and her attitude towards the position the last year has shown that it is time to replace her.

Doesn't have to be another Stokes or a Stokes light. But if it goes to the 70% BVAP, that's what we will get.

I love his commentary! Quick get that man a job on WAPT or WLBT!

It is so difficult for me to believe that intelligent people would continue to live in Hinds County.
Life is too short.
What the hell are you thinking?
Do you really think things will somehow reverse themselves and Alan Thompson's Jackson will come back from the dead?

Crowley has a problem with seniors. Here's a newsflash, Crowley. What counts at these circus meetings is how they vote on the issues that come before the council, not how much they preen and mouth off and pander to the camera.

This is just another example of why I moved away. It seems that Mississippi shows absolutely zero effort for any concern about a clean environment or conservation (and I don't mean just for hunting and fishing but overall ecology). I grew up on that street and have many fond memories of my childhood there. Yet, I do remember sewage seeping into and out of Hanging Moss creek often after big rains, and I mean extreme amounts of sh*t and anything else to give you some sort of disease like hepatitis or worse. It's sad to see that nothing has really changed. I go back to visit MS every year, and through the years I've yet to see any significantly large movements to support environmental quality or improvement. Sure, there are some folks advocating for a clean environment and conservation to some extent, but nothing like many other places in the US. For the small efforts that are there and trying, "keep rockin' folks; I pray you'll be heard someday". It'd just be great to see Mississippi catch up with the rest of the country in the "green" efforts and concern for public health and quality of life. I sure as hell don't want to raise any children where they have to play in sh*t or other hazardous "trash" that may be around (and no one cares about it). I wouldn't be surprised if these words may piss off some folks in MS, but sorry y'all, nothing personal. It's just time to stop looking like the ignorant state of the country. And yes, that is how many Americans in other areas view MS. I'm tired of having to defend the state I was born in when mentioned to folks in other places. Still I will say that I love the people of Jackson and around the state, but as for living there, f**k Mississippi.

This is just another example of why I moved away. It seems that Mississippi shows absolutely zero effort for any concern about a clean environment or conservation (and I don't mean just for hunting and fishing but overall ecology). I grew up on that street and have many fond memories of my childhood there. Yet, I do remember sewage seeping into and out of Hanging Moss creek often after big rains, and I mean extreme amounts of sh*t and anything else to give you some sort of disease like hepatitis or worse. It's sad to see that nothing has really changed. I go back to visit MS every year, and through the years I've yet to see any significantly large movements to support environmental quality or improvement. Sure, there are some folks advocating for a clean environment and conservation to some extent, but nothing like many other places in the US. For the small efforts that are there and trying, "keep rockin' folks; I pray you'll be heard someday". It'd just be great to see Mississippi catch up with the rest of the country in the "green" efforts and concern for public health and quality of life. I sure as hell don't want to raise any children where they have to play in sh*t or other hazardous "trash" that may be around (and no one cares about it). I wouldn't be surprised if these words may piss off some folks in MS, but sorry y'all, nothing personal. It's just time to stop looking like the ignorant state of the country. And yes, that is how many Americans in other areas view MS. I'm tired of having to defend the state I was born in when mentioned to folks in other places. Still I will say that I love the people of Jackson and around the state, but as for living there, f**k Mississippi.

So the sewage everyone is complaining about has existed for years?

If the sewage existed then the "shock" of "sewage flowing into the streets" is hyperbole.

Posters and readers on this blog, put your iphone down and look in the mirror. Are you really appalled by pre existing sewage or are you appalled that your town has a different complexion?

Jackson does have hard times ahead but it will survive...it just wont be run by anyone you know or anyone who cares about you...because quite simply...you never cared about them.

You reap what you sew.

To the 8:39 post----You are correct Jackson does have hard times ahead and it will survive until it loses its tax base then it will collapse ---then you will reap what you sow (not sew)

It isn't about race August 18, 2012 8:39 AM jerkoff.

It is about the governing bodies and elected officials performing the basics well and staying focused on priorities.

Crime, infrastructure and schools. Fix those three problems and Jackson has a chance to survive. But the clock is ticking and the hole only gets deeper with each passing day.

Race-baiting and scapegoating won't get it done. The city would be better off without idiots like you around.

Harvey runs an employment office from his desk. Pure and simple. Race notwithstanding. He could care less about yutes popping caps and offing each other or how many cop cars are in the University Hospital entrance drive or which businesses are shackled in plywood or how deep the potholes are. One thing matters and that is the path that leads from giving his friends jobs to a forever PERS monthly check for each of them.

8:24, do you dispute the fact that Margaret Barrett Simon refuses to attend regularly scheduled council meetings? Do you dispute the fact that she misses these meetings intentionally, opting instead to go to some do-nothing volunteer state committee she was appointed to (that has absolutely nothing to do with city government)? Do you dispute the fact that she receives a paycheck from the City that encompasses attending these council meetings, and then does not attend?

I hope you don't dispute these facts, seeing as how Margaret Barrett Simon admitted these things to the Clarion-Ledger.

Why are you defending a council member who is so secure in her incumbency that she doesn't think it's a problem that she is AWOL?

I suppose at some point just not giving a s--t and phoning it in became acceptable.

Race baiting? Idiot?

You ignored the first request...look in the mirror.

Blacks were excluded at every turn by white people. Those same black people did not just vanish. They live in Jackson. They remember. Some of them even learned how to race bait and divide. Stokes learned at the feet of the masters. Stokes hates white people and makes no bones about it. Just like past white leaders in the past hated blacks. (If this is even debateable in your mind, quit reading).

Jackson will exist and the known current tax base will leave...another tax base will replace it...just no one who has kids your kids go to school with, noone you go to church with, and noone you would consider living next to.

If you think Im wrong about the above after you candidly look in the mirror at your life, then you are either an abject liar, completely without reason, or the only white guy who attends Redeemer Church.

I suppose at some point just not giving a s--t and phoning it in became acceptable.

Much like The Stokes Twins...

The leadership of Jackson, Hinds County is piss poor and has been piss poor for a long time. That is why it continually spirals down in productivity. Build all you want but if you can't pipe the human waste away what do you have-and don't have funds to correct it-and this could have happened anywhere in the city. Makes me sick to think I grew up there but it was good years with good leadership. For those who say I am being racial my black friends can't get out of Jackson fast enough and tell me they are welcome in Rankin and Madison county. Why would anyone in their right mind want to live in Jackson?

@ 10:47

If you think there is a "another tax base" moving into Jackson "to take the place" of the old tax base, you're out of your mind.

There will be no "new" tax base. Once the current tax base wises up and leaves, Jackson is toast.

Eventually, state government will be forced to abandon the city for safety reasons.

Then we will see if the remaining fools will figure out how to develop malls, hospitals, and shopping centers.

You don't see that in any rotting city run by Democrats.

11:01......AMEN!

@ 11:43 AM

People like 10:47 would rather throw up their hands and be victims than work to actually solve any of Jackson's problems. It is a whole lot easier to live with sewage and blight and corruption by blaming the white man than put in the effort to lead the city back to health and vitality. You hit the nail on the head. There isn't going to be any replacement tax base coming to the rescue.

@11:43

Presidential Hills has a new tax base from years ago. Westland Plaza has a new tax base from years ago. Northeast Jackson will have a new tax base...the house valuation will decline...but people will move in....and you will not know them....you will not be related to them....

If you cannot see this...you cannot see.

Crowley: How could I possibly know what Barrett-Simon OPTS to do when she misses a meeting? And you're wrong if you think council meeting attendance is a requisite for receiving a coucil check. You pretend to dislike her being on the council due to her age, but, methinks it's her race that has your drawers up your crack.

We welcome you to Rankin county. All of the dissatisfied Northeast Jackson residents, we welcome you to the highest employment, low crime and most importantly a working sewage system. Beat the flight of your neighbors and come on across the river.

I'll tell you how you could know, Shadowfax. If you actually kept up with current events and did a little reading from time to time, you would know that Margaret Barrett Simon disclosed what she was doing when she was supposed to be at the council meetings.

And yes, Shadowfux, you busted me. I hate the fossilized old hag because she's white.

Idiot.

All of Jackson will have a new tax base move in ... eventually ... the new base will be far poorer than the old ... you will not know them because you skin color is not black ... but from time to time you will smell them ... they will live with raw sewage running through the gutters ... they will live with infrequent garbage collection ... they will live with gravel streets and drives ... they will live with sporadic water service and some with no water at all.

Jackson will finally be theirs but all of Jackson's problems will still be laid at your feet.

Do you really think eastover and the surrounding area will be taken over by the lower class? I just dont think this area will go down in the next twenty or so years. I am like a lot of people in ne jaxn. We are professionals that work in the hospitals and law firms in the city. Our kids go to school at prep and ja, and we go to church here. We really dont care for madison or rankin county where you have alot of people without deep roots in the area. Most think they are rich bc they make 100k per year without a damn dime in the bank but they have a big cookie cutter new house. If you want to see generational wealth, look in eastover and not in some five year development in madison cty. We are all doing fine in ne jaxn, and we plan on keeping it that way for years.

@2:15, interesting you encourage people to move to Rankin. I suppose one would have to ask himself which he would prefer to live around: raw sewage in the street and violent thugs? Or rednecks and greaseball preachers on every corner.

Looking at it in those terms, I don't guess raw sewage really smells all that bad.

@ 2:40

Jackson's problems won't be laid at our feet.
Rankin Co. is going to become the nation's first gated county.

I suspect we're witnessing the 'real Curt Crowley'. He's suddenly morphed from noted attorney, slapstick comedian and polished elocutionist to angry black dude popping off, bastardizing screen names and hatin' on white folk. I didn't realize calling him out would cause him to lose it so quickly. Maybe a good night's rest......

^^^Crowley is white^^^

@11:55, I do believe that's the first time anyone has called me an "angry black dude" (a literal impossibility in my case).

I would find your comment comical had you ended your stupidity there. But "hatin on white people?" You're an idiot.

My comments provided you with a list of factually-accurate, race-neutral reasons why Miss Daisy needs to go.

Contrast her performance with the council's other white member--Quentin Whitwell. While Quentin may not be as effective as his predecessor (or his predecessor's predecessor), he has worked during his term. He attends regular meetings and work sessions, missing only when required by his employment. During the meetings, he contributes substantively to the debate. It is obvious that he devotes much time and effort outside of meetings. I don't agree with every position he takes, but he has earned another term on the council.

On the other hand, Margaret Barrett Simon has done nothing, contributes nothing, and won't even show up for work.

You see, dummy, it's not about race. It's about performance.

Re-drawing the district lines is an extreme remedy to shed dead weight. Like 9:19, I would like to see a less drastic cure. However, Jackson is in dire straights. It is in this condition because of these ineffective senior citizens that occupy positions in city government, and just won't go away. They have killed Jackson and must be eradicated.

By any means necessary.

Actually the problem started when they moved the work sessions to 10:00 AM. She told them that would create a problem and there was less of a problem for everyone when they were held in the evening.

Crowley said: "By any means necessary. "

Conjuring up the ghost of the original angry black man.... :-)

Whitwell's predecessor's predecessor was ineffective.

KF, you do know that Jackson could have applied for money to repair the water/sewer system when federal monies were to be had and didn't, right?

That's where the story is.

And, yes, there has been a problem with water/sewer a very long time...at least since the late 60's. The Pearl River flood shouldn't have been nearly so devastating as it was.

Those of you in Madison and Rankin shouldn't be so smug. Your developers weren't required to put in your systems up to last either. They will fail much sooner than Jackson's have begun to fail and your system will not be as easy to patch.

My apologies to black men everywhere. I know Crowley 'talks' white, but, he's 'black angry' and in his Clarion Ledger comments he posts the photo of a black man with a cigar that's bigger than Crowley's pie hole.

Meanwhile; just who are these mysterious 'senior citizens' that Crowley imagines are responsible for 'the downfall' of Jackson? Name me five people over the age of 65 who have been 'in charge' in Jacktown in the past twenty years.

They will fail much sooner than Jackson's have begun to fail and your system will not be as easy to patch.

Prove it.

@9:31, I just couldn't resist. After being called "an angry black dude," it seemed appropriate to quote Brother Malcolm.

@Shadowfax, I'm willing to give you a pass for not being hip enough to recognize the large fellow in that photo. That is Suge Knight. I adopted that photo after jokingly suggesting that Jackson needed a chief of police with Suge's problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.

With regard to the identity of the petrified wood I referenced, there have actually been a string of them. Current city council members who fall into this category include Miss Daisy, Frank Tillman and Frank Bluntson (though Mr. Bluntson should get a point or two for showing up to work). The only useful function these folks could serve is welcoming me to wal-mart and checking my receipt when I leave.

You can also add King Harvey, his Campus Cop and Eric "Biggie" Wall to the list.

Note that when I derisively call someone in government a "senior citizen," I don't necessarily use 65 as a hard cutoff.

If I lived on Sheffield, I would be more concerned over the tacky attorney who built the gaudy house with his father-in-law's money more than the sewage on the street...both are equally as bad.

Who cares?

Seriously, other than the commenters on this board who argue about Jackson for the sake of having something to argue about, who cares?

It's beyond saving. The "new tax base" will pay about a fifth of what the departing tax base paid. I don't know what one-fifth as good as "sewage flooding the streets" is, and I really don't care to find out.

But whatever the end result, it will be a third-world country run by a bunch of incompetent racists. And there is absolutely nothing anyone in the world can do to change that, period.

So move out or ride the Titanic to the bottom. Beyond that, what is left to say?

Anonymous said...
@11:43

Presidential Hills has a new tax base from years ago. Westland Plaza has a new tax base from years ago. Northeast Jackson will have a new tax base...the house valuation will decline...but people will move in....and you will not know them....you will not be related to them....

If you cannot see this...you cannot see.

August 18, 2012 1:03 PM

Really? Presidential Hills? Westland Plaza? Wow, those are such flourishing areas aren't they? How they been doing lately? Let me help you out with that. This was within the last week:

JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - Jackson Police say Christopher Younger and Ronald Bailey, both age 26, turned themselves in today. Both are being charged with the murder of 17-year-old Marquillon Hawkins. He was shot twice on Abraham Lincoln Drive, in Presidential Hills, about 8:30 Tuesday evening.

Hawkins was found lying on the ground in the backyard of a home a few doors down from his house. Police say the teen was shot twice in the back.

Previous Story
17 year old shot and killed in Presidential Hills
Witnesses say they saw a car pull up, and an armed passenger exit the vehicle, and chase Hawkins down, shooting him. He died at UMMC.

Hawkins' family says the men arrested were from the area, and they had been telling neighbors they were planning to kill him.

"This is very upsetting" said Tiadra Hawkins, the victim's sister. "We weren't expecting anything like this to happen. But you know we always knew that something around the neighborhood was going on with my brother, but we never knew it was going to come this soon."

Jackson Police are investigating another shooting involving yet another teenager. That shooting occurred Tuesday night in south Jackson.

An 18-year-old was shot in the chest at 2615 Hillside Drive.

The shooting was called in shortly after eleven o'clock. The victim's injuries are life threatening.

That's just great! Look what Jackson has to look forward to! If it were not for the few decent people who still live here and refuse to let a bunch of murdering thugs take it over, it would already be much worse than it is. Be careful what you wish for....you just might get it!

Crowley (way back at 4:01). What in the world do you have against preachers and people who work hard outside for a living. If you would rather, as you plainly say, live in shit than have a 'redneck' or preacher for a neighbor, then we're all for you being happy in your present circumstances.

Wow 3:51. Wow. The lower class?

And who cares about generational wealth 3:51?

626 talks to himself at 629. Yes lower class, and generational wealth is also called deep pockets. Eat your heart out.

I was sad but not surprised about the sewage on any Jackson street. I live in Eastover and had a backyard of sewage for about 3 months a couple of years ago. So glad I read the comments though because laughed my head off. You guys are really funny. I suppose if I am on the Titanic .... at least I'm sinking with good people.

The Jackson rebranding campaign gets underway. New stop added to Harvey Johnson's bus tour.

Waterspout on res. "Generational" sewage spout in Eastover.

Whole Foods to break ground in hopeless NE Jackson late September at Highland Village where the double- decker bus now sits. Company says is a press release that it is "building in NE Jackson because Jackson is in such bad shape, and Whole Foods feels sorry for it". Whole Foods also says that it "doesn't expect to make money, just friends".

Rebrand This: Dateline - Jackson, Mississippi: Homicides soaring

Yawn. YAWN. BFD. Ain't in my back yard. NEVER going to change as long as 90% of them ain't got a daddy.

This is the "lower class" previously referred to. My backyard has the "District at Eastover" and Whole Foods on the way.

Top Years for Jackson Murder:

1995 = 92
1994 = 91
1993 = 84
1991 = 76
2008 = 73
2012 = 71 (proj using YTD "kill" rate)
1996 = 67