Jackson Jambalaya

Wilson Carroll was there. That will likely lead to a cardiac event on the 13th floor once she cruises over here this morning to do her daily reading of JJ.

It was nice to be back with old pals like Louis Armstrong and Credell Calhoun.

I think the council members are glad to have one of them in the mayors office. He promised to be forthcoming with all the info that he gets from the bureaucracy and not hide things from the council. Being a former council member, he knows what their turf is. Unlike the Lumumbas he does not have 'peoples congresses' in their ward. Unlike the general public, he does appreciate the ward boundaries. City mentality will be an education for him.

She probably had binoculars out Wilson and was furiously stabbing a Voodoo doll while watching you down there below.

Mayor Yarber will be a man divided by seven. A shadow mayor. Perhaps Charles H. Tillman can school him on the city bureaucracy. Yarber will see the vacant lands that the State Tax Commission holds. Yarber will see the current city utility breaks. Today is day one. Its OK to be overwhelmed by the task of governance. He will need the strength of the Lord who created all authority in the first place.

The two children in a picture by themselves--they are so cute.

"The Mayor did not threaten to whip Bert's ass" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yarber has a chance to do a good job for all the people of the state and the state itself. It takes nothing to be a bag man. It takes strength to be a good, honest, fair man. I pray he has the strength to do the things that need to be done.

These pictures pretty much capture the essence of Jackson..

@9:26AM...um, old pals like louie? Is he out of prison yet? Or were you visiting him in prison?

Who's running for the Mayor's seat on the Council?

1:43, what exactly do you mean by that? Just wondering.

3:07 I think 1:43 was commenting on the large number of people apparently not at work on a Thursday morning.

LaRita's hat was mighty spiffy.

3:30, thanks.

I would like to follow up by asking (if that really is what 1:43 is referring to) whether there are other inaugurations in the metro area that no one attends (because they are all at work).

By the way, many of the pictures were of local political leaders who are there by virtue of their position. In regards to them, they were there because of their work, not despite it.

Louis Armstrong - the guy in charge of zoning who I spoke to personally about the two illegal personal care homes on my street where people were being beaten. He refused to do anything. Which is too bad because the bitch running those homes was also running another one in South Jackson where someone died from exposure to cold when the "attendant" threw cold water on her. The heat wasn't working and the window above the woman's bed was broken. PLEASE don't give this guy another government job. He is USELESS.

I take offense at the term "inauguration" for the mayor of any town!!!

I've been hearing Tyrone Hendrix, a democratic consultant who ran Jonathan Lee's campaign as well as Dupree and a few others is tossing his hat in the race. I think he would be the best funded less a heavy personal funder. Would be a very solid candidate. Sharp guy. Also hearing the election commissioner is in.