Jackson Jambalaya

I hope the merchants have not been hijacked by McGowan. They should based their prosperity on solid infrastructure improvements and social development.

I hope you are filming this.

Please, please metro region. Save Jackson. Pretty please.

Pipe Dream. These efforts have become comical. Goes NOWHERE.

Maybe they can discuss why O'Neill is so grossly overpaid.

I wonder if their is a 10 year plans to replace the sewage pipes in Jackson, MS...It stinks in South Jackson.

17 yr plan on the pipes-- and $400M they dont have.

heard lumumbler say 'they've got to stop dumping sewage like that...' etc as if the water dept is autonomous .

Rename it 'Vision 2022/Jackson in Denial'.

That is going to be some interesting waterfront on the lake. They mention recreation, etc. Anything south of the water treatment plant is contaminated. MARK IT DOWN-THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS LAKE PROJECT HAS A KEY COMPONENT THAT THEY ARE NOT MENTIONING-GAMBLING. If they want it to be a part of the plan just be up front about it. Gambling has not done anything positive for MS-gamble if you want to-it's your business. My problem is that the lies they sold to get gambling in MS to begin with-our education/funding woes are over. Every year our dumb ass legislators lament over fully funding education like a few more dollars will fix everything. Jackson does not have infrastructure to take care of what they have now. The schools are just terrible. The crime is terrible. The leadership on the council is full of idiots, lunatics and psychotics-and the people of Jackson put them there. Hey, but this lake project along with the other trimmings are gonna fix it. Well I will not be holding my breath.

All the cities that are constantly mentioned trying to sell the "lake/river/riverwalk" concept have said bodies of water flowing through their downtown. People from downtown Jackson will have to cross I-55 to access whatever may eventually be built. Nothing actually downtown will benefit. Herrin-Gear will be sitting pretty, though. Just think, all those customers waiting for service to be finished will be able to gaze out across the water. Oh, wait. There's a levee in the way.

Jackson will declare bankruptcy before any lake gets built. The idea that a lake filled with sewage polluted water is going to somehow rescue the city from its total collapse is absurd madness.

This is just sad.

You have a city whose leaders can't prevent sewage from flooding the streets, and now they're waving around some 100-page gibberish about "nurturing regional talent pipelines" and "creating aesthetic quality of place."

Look, just put this in the file drawer next to all the other $100,000 blue ribbon studies, and try something simple, like "Keep people's crap off the streets."

I can see it now. A lovely meandering stream leading into ponds, small lakes and off-shooting rivulets, highlighted by colored lights and low sweeping trees and bounded by artsy shops and outdoor venues. And a sign every thirty feet with a skull and crossbones warning 'DO NOT GO NEAR WATER'.

But, Leland and McGowan will be having that rare drink up in a fifth-floor glass-encased cube overlooking the brick pathway.

They are delusional (no surprise there) if they think they can attract gamblers with the prospect of walking out of a casino with a pocketful of cash winnings into the streets of south Jackson.

The leadership on the council is full of idiots, lunatics and psychotics-and the people of Jackson put them there.

Yep....

Here's my question on the water development issue: if they did actually build it and put ten casinos along the waterway....each casino would have 500 heavily armed security people (that's probably too many).......would you still be opposed to it?

And just for the record, although I am not sure how true it CURRENTLY is, Tunica was one of the top paying districts as far as teacher pay goes for a while... due primarily to the casino kick-backs. Or at least it was when I was the one running the numbers.

Just saying that the idea behind Casinos kicking money back towards the education system isn't TOTAL BS.

Casinos are never going to be in this deal.

Gambling in Jackson ain't gonna happen. Coast and Ms River counties will fight it along with Choctaws...that's a lot of lobbying dollars. And add the Baptists and rural legislators and it ain't got a prayer.

It never ceases to amaze me that people will attack a group of folks trying to do something good. If you don't like Jackson, then fine, but why tear down others trying to improve their community. I don't much care for Madison County, but I just avoid going there, I don't feel the need to insult people in that community. Without Jackson, Madison and Rankin would be rural counties with no growth prospects.

Check the connection between McGowan and the Gaming Commission.

So the aterfront keeps getting trotted out there. Even when we know that it puts more ater on the people downstream. And now we find out the people downstream are getting Jackson's untreated sewer.

Quality of life for Jackson, why Jackson litterly SHITS on those downstream.

SHAMEFULL.

Somehow the w did not come through on the above post. It is supposed to be waterfront and water.

Don't see how they can build the lake until the raw sewage discharges -- diluted or not -- are resolved. The sewage will accumulate in the lake in concentrations that will surely violate environmental laws.

why did my comment yesterday get spiked? I only mentioned it would be extremely unlikely that you could attract gamblers to a casino built on a fakelake full of sewage, and expect them to walk out of the casino into south Jackson with their cash winnings.