Jackson Jambalaya

When the temp drops below 30 for a spell , the city will be shut down for a week due to no water.

And the weather is not even below freezing.

Hell . . . it almost got up to 60 degrees in the "metro" today.

No doubt the lil' Mayor will hold a press conference three weeks from today and ramble something about some
"holistic approach".

Wow, who knew? In a couple of days Baby Chok will be able to blame all of the city's problems on Trump.

Will someone please tell me what the Mayor has done during his tenure besides assist crime in skyrocketing?

Infrastructure has not been fixed, businesses are leaving Jackson, and taxes have increased.

They could have put all the money they spent on spy cameras & a spy watching center in the city & fixed some water old water lines.

Oooopppps....did I do that???!!!

“Perception” of water loss.

Good.

Rot Jackson. You deserve what you get. Your leadership’s open hate of white people is disgusting and racist.

The Jackson train derailed long before Chockwe arrived on the scene. At this point, only a state takeover with real management AND money has any hope of putting putting the train back on a sustainable track.

Yeah but we got a great walking/bike trail to the museums.

In other words, another day in Jackson.

6:51, you left off all the money they have spent on rehabing the infrastructure AT THE ZOO so that they can now pay someone $1.2 million a year so that it will be open again.

At leat the spy center has a payback of sorts; much more than the rate of return on the zoo.

If only bloviating could magically fix water systems Baby Chok would be the solution to Jacktown's water problems.

Now ANTARD wants to spend $244,000 the city doesn't have to re-org DPW. Screw you Jackson, somebody got to get paid!

Damn that 90 million didn't last long and nobody knows where it went.. And for my next disappearing act...

But we sho’ nuff got us a zoo

"The City of Jackson Water Distribution System is currently experiencing a high volume of water main breaks"
And in other news, the sky is up and water is still wet.

After Baby Chok is knighted by Pres. Harris, err Biden, maybe some more of the "free" federal grant money will fix Jacktown's many problems...or not.

Jackson's infrastructure is rotten- just like its leaders.

To be fair, these problems are nothing new.

Bad Roads
Water Main Breaks
Crime
Substandard Public Schools
Declining Tax Base due to business and residential departures

When was the last time a mayor took leadership in any of those areas and made the hard (and less popular) decision to solve a problem?

...And they want to pay for a new zoo. Ineptitude in a nutshell

Maybe Siemens can invent a permanent, automatic boil water device for residential applicants throughout the City of Jackson.

When a Mayor cares more about posturing for national attention rather than solving actual problems at the local level, you get the current situation.

Elect a no experience greenhorn to be your Mayor, expect a no experience greenhorn Mayor flailing at the job.

Lets be honest, the jackson water department is a joke. When you call to report a leak it takes them 3 months to get someone out there to fix it. If i was the director I'd be embarrassed at the level of incompetence.

Oh really? I had a water meter that was leaking bad last week. Called the city and within two days, someone came out and fixed it.

Wonder if we can get MAC & Associates/Marcus Wallace and Hemphill to get to working on it? Will Hemphill front the bond this time for that DBE contract?

For those wondering, MAC(Marcus Wallace) was the DEB contractor that put the Siemens water meters in. MAC in turn hired Henmphill to do the actual work since MAC is a DEB shell company. Hemphill signed on as a indemnitor for their bonding, most likely because of credit issues. MAC(Marcus Wallace) didn't pay its subcontractors and suppliers.

Bear Creek Water will fix that leak in less than 4 hours total upon receipt of call. Got to get the damn government out of the water business.

You mean Marcus Wallace who lives in Madison but somehow 35 miles away is also the Mayor of Edwards? That Marcus Wallace?

@9:00am -- To be fair, the Mayor's job is fixing the city's problems, and he is failing miserably. Whataboutism isn't going to change that.

Whataboutism isn't going to change that.

Nor will stupid terms du jour like 'whataboutism'.

Good grief, people, Jackson is impoverished. The tax base is depleted. We're doing the best that we can, which isn't a lot given the lack of resources. I wish that you would try to pick on someone your own size for a change. Or just don't pick on anybody.

I know I'm wasting my time, but every now and then I get a little sick of the constant irrationality and bigotry in JJ World. So go slide down a razor blade. (Now I feel a little better.)

"When the water mains break, you'll have no place to stay."

Jackson and most other cities like LA and Detroit, were doing just fine until the 1960s. I wonder what happened to upset the apple cart and cause so much third world style social collapse? What made society tolerate crime and decay?

" To be fair, these problems are nothing new. "

True, but all administrations through Dale Danks at least dealt with such issues.
( Even if it was a band-aid response).

Since that administration. . . the subsequent Mayors seem to have been unconcerned about "their people". Much less about all Jacksonians.

Flying to New York/California to receive a goofy award, 2 minutes on MSNBC/CNN , or a some big booty party girls in Atlanta appear to be the new priorities for Jackson, Mississippi Mayors.

Frank @ 2:30 implies being impoverished is the problem.

How do you propose the city becomes less impoverished?

Can't really expect individuals and business to be attracted to pay exorbitant taxes while getting almost no basic government services or safety guarantees in return.

So now...what do we do to correct that?

Because I don't see any drastic changes from one mayor or city council to the next.

What strides are being made to at least turn it around and begin to improve?

I just don't see any real efforts, but I genuinely hope the best for Jxn and I am not here to bash.

"Nor will stupid terms du jour like 'whataboutism'."

It may be new or trendy to you, but the term has been around since the 70s.

I am currently home in South Jackson with barely any water coming out of the faucets. A low water pressure problem in South Jackson for a different reason just ended about 2 weeks ago, when at that time the Public Works director whose name starts with the prefix “Dr.” said that the pumps at the OB Curtis Water Plant were not all working because they needed parts. Any manager or managers of our Water Plant, which is an essential part of the health and safety of the residents of Jackson, should have the knowledge of how the water pumps work, what parts they require, and have spare parts on hand. Today the excuse being given is that extremely cold weather caused the pumps to not work properly. So did they freeze up? Can’t he just say that if true? They have these temperatures and lower up in the northern United States, and they have ways to keep this from happening. Why doesn’t the management of this Jackson plant have ways to prevent or remedy it? I highly question the capability of the director of the Public Works Department in Jackson, who is always seen on TV giving excuses for why some devastating public situation happened—a situation that sounds like it was avoidable by capable management. The Federal DEQ needs to do an audit of this water system and management of it that we have in Jackson, and possibly a takeover.