Jackson Jambalaya

" director of the Office of Health Protection "

Laughing my ass off.

However, I do have some serious questions: ... when was this position (and office) created ? What are the basic qualifications for this Director's job ? ... How much does this Director of the Office of Health Protection make per year ? Why was there not a rep from this department at the last City of Jackson "job fair" ?

What does the Office of "Health Protection" even do ?
Where is their location ?

There is a huge difference in quality of drinking water and quality of water treatment (post-use). I think the mayor is incompetent but let’s not confuse the two issues. Totally separate.

Attn 8:48 Apparently the health protection dept. is in charge of preventing murders in the capitol city. How are they doing?

I believe this has been referred to the Ministry of Silly Walks. They have since issued a press release stating: blah, blah, blah....meh, meh, meh.

Can we please stop focusing on minor things like this and come together to ban gun shows? That’s what the real problem is.

Even bathing in this water is Harmful to those with open cuts or weak immune systems! The Mayor is a Disgrace but the people who voted for him are worse. To not want more for your children, friends and parents is crazy!

Remind me...Wasn't he recently re-elected to a new four year term?

Isn't that 'the rest of the story' and 'the bottom line' all at the same time?

Does the Mayor drink Jackson water?? Probably bottled water only, someone should ask him this question!!!

Oh goodness!

I must have missed the State Health Dept.'s press conference in 2016 or since.

I did get water reports regularly from the city and did read them. It's why I don't drink or cook with water that isn't filtered or bottled.

Of course, in the mid '80's, I was aware that Jackson isn't the only bad water system in the State.

Indeed,I'm aware of the myth that well water is immune to leaching from all the toxic chemicals that find their way into our aquifers.

Now, do tell what exactly the mayor had the funds to do to fix a problem that any and all elected and appointed officials ought to have known we had back in the 1980's?

And,by the way,once upon a time, the CDC published " cancer hot spot" maps. It was pretty obvious they could be linked to contaminated water near hazardous waste dumps and leaching of toxic chemicals into the water supply sources in this country.

Did you also know that the USMC hid the fact that asbestos contaminated the water and Camp Lejeune and Marines died and had serious health problems from the drinking that water?

Yeah, so let's blame A guy rather than all the politicians protecting the sources of pollution and contamination and who wouldn't direct funds to solve expensive problems few cities have the ability to solve.

Our infrastructure didn't decay overnight!

But,calling environmentalists who tried to warn us, "tree huggers" or "Commies" made it easy to give subsidies to industries and build planes and tanks that didn't work.

@9:00 AM, for the apologists like yourself it is all about the power and control but not about results. So the bottom line, if you must have one, is that you helped return a total zero-results incompetent to power and control. Congrats.

Oh, oh, it's on now. 9:53, has brought out the what abouts. That automatically clears anyone they are defending. After all, everyone knows two wrongs make a right.

9:53 Hey Lumumba, be sure to click an ad when you post.

9:53 - to answer your question as to 'the mayor who had the funds to fix the problem" - let me start and work backward: Yarbor, Lumumba Sr, Johnson, Melton, Johnson, Ditto, Danks and keep going.

They all 'inherited' old infrastructure, but they didn't let it go to hell under their administrations. They all had the money to maintain the system because ---- hold on, wait for it ------ they all required the users to pay for their water; and the use of the sewer; and their garbage collection.

Under each and every one of those previous mayors (and btw, in case you missed it, I named all of the previous mayors of what was once the fine Capitol City but is now the New Radical City, going back over forty years) the city was able to maintain the water system, do the maintenance, and in many cases build new facilities while upgrading others.

And, while doing that, they maintained a cash reserve balance in the water fund that was able to take care of emergencies and keep up with necessary repairs.

But this mayor has chosen to not require the citizens of our Radical New City to pay their utility bill - unless of course, they want to do so. This has caused the water system fund to deplete its entire reserve fund as well as to not have the money to hire adequate workers at the treatment plants, or to provide scheduled maintenance required to keep the system operating.

Yes - he complains constantly about having an "old system" - but frankly, only parts of it are old (as are systems throughout the country) but properly maintained those systems are adequate and do not shut down or operate in absolute disregard of the required health parameters.

There is no defense for this administration's absolute failure to keep the water system (both the treatment plants, the wells, and the distribution lines) all functioning. Just as there is no escuse for not having done diddly-squat about the collapsing sewer system that has been under a consent decree for eight years but has not moved forward toward resolving the problems there as well.

We can say though that the garbage has been collected - twice a week, which is a nice extravagance - but that happens only because there is a contract with an outside vendor who does the work. Too bad that a quarter of our citizens choose not to pay for that service either.

Well said 3:38.

And while we are approaching mid Summer with temps soon to be over 100 degrees every day...serious Winter weather will be back during January, February and early March of 2022.(That's only about eight months away).

Then it will be the "same ole/same ole"

Pipes will burst, everyone will be without water for over a month.
Chokawey [sic] will blame dead White Mayors, Reeves will have to activate the National Guard, CNN & MSNBC will rush down ... and it will be a repeat of 2021.

Although sad for the good folks that are trapped in Jackson, I do hope Councilman Stokes will call another "smells like boo-boo/dope boys" press conference.

That was the funniest presser ever to be seen all over the planet.

@ 9:53 -- Bravo! Was the monologue below your inspiration?

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests - we did. But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but I for one am not going to stand here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!" -- Otter

8:48pm educate yourself about basic public health.

Go to a third world country and then you will be grateful for things like Offices of Health Protection.

No running water but re-elected with 70% of the vote. I think that sums it up pretty good. If they don't care why should anyone else.