Jackson Jambalaya

Margaret has not had enough one to one relationships to get to the office of mayor. Harvey is over. John is distrusted. Regina is bankrupt. Melvin is a question. Tony is circular. And Chokwe is direct though untested. The latter will be trusted.

YAWN .... SSSSnnnnnoooooorrreeee

God help us.

God has already given us the strength and knowhow to deal with evil. It is up to us to win the battle.
Too many have suspected for years that a conflict was coming, but thought "not today"- that is in the distant future.
The enemy is at the gates. We were forewarned but are we forearmed?
The distant future is upon us...
Anyone who espouses to take what is ours is our enemy.
Do you want to give up what is yours with a whimper or fight them with the roar of "secure our land!"?
Make your vote count! It can make a difference.

The Lord Mayor spends most of his time either marketing the town, fixing potholes, and jump starting bogged down legal processes. Harvey had little time to even appoint capable citizens to municipal boards he was so busy. The State of Mississippi is the principal power here anyway. You have to be the state's lieutenant as Lord Mayor and that means attending to their strange laws and schemes.

Harvey had little time to even appoint capable citizens to municipal boards he was so busy.

Busy doing what?

Antar and Yarber in the runoff, Antar wins. This thing is more simple to see than Phil Bryant's fake-cheap cowboy boots!

I would bet that 90% of the people proclaiming on here that Antar will win live out in the burbs and just want nothing more than Jackson to fail (even though they aren't smart enough to realize that a healthy Jackson means healthy suburbs). If you dont have enough pride in your state to want to see a thriving capital city then there is nothing that will satisfy you. Look at the deteoriorating parts of Ridgeland and Clinton. Do you really not think that the bad areas won't continue spread to the burbs if Jackson can't get its act together?

... (even though they aren't smart enough to realize that a healthy Jackson means healthy suburbs).

Fallacy.

So you think Detriot has safe, thriving suburbs? When you can't get a handle on crime and all the people worth stealing from move 5 miles north do you really think the criminals won't follow them? The solution is to try and fix the problems with good leadership, not hope the city destroys itself and think that by moving across city lines your imaginary fence into the suburbs will keep the bad guys out. Now that is a fallacy.

"Look at the deteriorating parts of Ridgeland and Clinton."

What deteriorating parts? Last I checked Ridgeland and Clinton had a pretty good hold on crime. Or are you simply referring the parts with the growing black population?

10:51, I sincerely hope Jackson can be turned around....I'm just not optimistic it's now possible. It's my belief we've just gone too far. I know there are others who claim Jackson can be turned around, similar to other cities "like us;" however the cities who keep being claimed to be "like us" aren't "like us." For instance, the city I heard mentioned on the radio last week was Chattanooga. Well, Chattanooga isn't "like us." Among myriad other things, they have "better" natural beauty (a major CLEAR river running through it, mountains, etc.), much stronger tourism (being a major gateway to the most popular national park, etc.), MUCH more PRIVATE investment into the city and, most importantly, they have a different overall demographic. I've been visiting Chattanooga for 30+ years and even when they were different than what they are now (when they were said to be "like us"), they simply weren't "like us."

No, I'm afraid we've followed Detroit's example for long enough that we're now just a smaller example of them. You can't continue to witness the demise we've seen happening, continue to address the demise in the way we've been / not been addressing it, acknowledge that it's getting worse and worse (and responded by doing more of the same), and expect that we're going to turn around someday.

It's really frustrating, because I know there are a lot of people putting a lot of work into the right areas, only to see those at the top (politicians) negate the hard work of the others by promoting the things that will assure them another term in office. No, I'm afraid we've let it get away from us for too long, and the new bosses will be the same as the old bosses: they're going to do what's good for THEM and THEIR political careers!

This urban sociology lesson is enuf. Melton and Johnson had downtown hotel investors who were near bankruptcy and Capitol Green folk were shady and near embarrassment as well. Suburbs do deteriorate as does all flesh... Equally damaging to the city is the compliance issues of the aging sewer system and the Clean Water Act. All the council members have left us this issue.

I thought the whole point of the free the land movement was to create a black nation. If we give them Jackson, then won't all the "bad people" just move back to Jackson? What are the specific borders that the District of Kush is asking for?

11:45. Yes the parts of Ridgeland around Wal-Mart and the Mall are just beautiful and safe without any Cash Advance stores(don't think it won't keep going north) and Miss College just made a list of the top burglarized college campuses in the nation. Keep telling yourself that though...