Jackson Jambalaya

I thought he might be slick. At the Sheriff's barbeque last summer and after only a couple of board meetings he was already talking about 'people having my back'.

And he brought all his financial people with him or soon after he got here.

"Let's make sure this doesn't happen again in the future" is a damned, piss-poor attitude to take when crap like this goes on. Of course "Bowtie Louie's" response (if he gives one) will be, "Hey, I didn't do anything that was actually illegal".

When his current contract runs out he can qualify to run for county supervisor.

Many local and state government chieftains had the ARRA or Stimulus money to prop them up in the last three years. The money may have helped the economy, but the political polish, structural unemployment, skills gap, weak demand, returning vets, loyal public employees, and fumes is about all we are operating on now.

When his current contract runs out he can qualify to run for county supervisor.

Did he stiff the bus company, too?

no operating manual my ass

You read that, eh. ;-)

Thanks, KF. This is the kind of stuff --important stuff that requires actual investigation and basic math skills, I mean-- that never gets reported by anyone else around Jackson.

CL broke it. It would have been nice if they posted the actual audit. I had to go google it to find it.

As for Iwritepoetry on the CL website whining all school districts do it: start naming some and linking the audits and page numbers.

It is time for the JPS School Board to go to Mr. Jim Barksdale, with their collective hats in their hands, and beg him to re-offer to find us the very best Superintendent in the Nation and supplement his pay. Until we do not care about the Superintendent's race and only care about results for our children, nothing will change.

To my complete embarrassment, had to marinate on the Justin Wilson reference before I got it.

Well done, KF.

As KF said, most of this information was in the CL online before all of you were out of bed this morning. Having to Google it must have been tough. There's a limit to what length needs to be gone to in a paper's article. They told us enough to know the guy is a crook.

"Had to Google it" allowed you to print it here without crediting the original source, the CL.

"Had to Google it" allowed you to print it here without crediting the original source, the CL.

Nobody forces you to read anything here. You don't have to like it and as long as you surf over to JJ you definitely get to lump it.

Funny, I don't see you griping when media in town sees my stories and a few days or a week later reports the same thing after they get the original docs even though I broke it.

Wow. I didn't realize JPS had hired anyone from Fayette county schools. Terrible hire. I live in Memphis. Fayette county schools are notoriously awful. Most of the urban flight from Memphis has stopped at the Fayette county line for that reason. Those that do move to Fayette county have to send their kids to private schools in Memphis.

Who cares who breaks a story? Just throw it up and credit the source if need be. It ain't about who publishes first.