Jackson Jambalaya

Dey busy.....dey elbows hurt.

How long before you get the JJ mobile smell-it-on-the-net feature activated?

Does accuweather have an index that helps a person forecast just how many days before their missed cart or bags get fully ripened to biohazard level NINE?

The Affluent Old Money Gentry of The CCJ can afford to pay people to carry their trash up HWY 25 and dump it in the cans of the new money neighborhoods of Flowood.

Been 2 weeks since I seen a garbage truck!!! I have 3 big cans overflowing at the road!! The mayor’s garbage company is just like him, can’t do nothing right!

We need a NEW mayor and our old garbage company back!!!

They puter be broke.

l live off old fannin, my garbage gets picked up twice a week just like clockwork. for the low, low price of 29.99 a week, i'll let you bring your trash cans and put them in front of my house.

1:47 : Trash pickup is the one thing both po and rich have in common. Why you wanna take that away ?

that area is leaning a valuable lesson…fall in line with lumumba or else..

no belhaven problems. thanks virgi!

It's sad but this was so easy to predict. Chokwe just worried about his kneecaps getting broke to hell with the garbage.

There's so much "trash" in the rest of the city, they just don't have time...

So now that the dust has settled… Did Lumumba win?

Trash pickup should be prioritized based on amount of property taxes paid

Chokwe is the worst. It’s true… this guy can’t do anything right. He’s such a fool

Think about certain parts of "rural" Jackson that even Jaxonians know nothing about. You think those trucks are running Shaw Road ? All those little side streets over around Forest Hills ? The answer is no.

Drive them out, pickup their homes for a song. Radical.

This is a totally broken city. They can't hire police because they don't pay salaries to attract. The water is a disaster and the streets are gutted with massive potholes.

The number for Richard's is 769-333-4222. They still haven't picked up our Thursday garbage and now won't even answer the phone. Our city councilman got through and the answer we got back is, "That area is still on our list (picking up the Thursday garbage on Friday afternoon) but if we aren't there by 5:30, take your garbage back uo to your house."

Our mayor has f*cked us again.

I just got off the phone with Richards. As a temporary solution, I was advised to drop off my garbage in secure garbage bags only at a collection spot located at 1 Eastmont Place. Advise the attendant that you live at the CCJ.

3:18 :I do not live in Jackson and can say with all certainty ......when only 10,000 vote it means you f*cked yourselves and I do believe that he can be impeached. If y'all really wanted it bad enough.

$29.99 a week? For the math challenged JPS scholars, that's damned near $560 a year. That's diaper and nail money for a single boy like me!

For the math challenged @3:42 PM that would be $1,559.48 a year. D'oh.

Maybe they cannot tell what is trash and what isn't trash. Just by driving down a few streets it would be hard to tell.

It's the perception of trash not being picked up.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease…

Gotta love Organized Crime. Once they set the hooks, well..... wonder when and if we'll see any RICO action.

Don't call Richard's. Call the Mayor's office and 311.
https://www.jacksonms.gov/mayors-office-directory/

I have no sympathy for the folks in the Country Club of Jackson.

They too ... had the means to get out of Jackson many years ago.

How long have they actually waited? What addresses? Anonymous commenters have zero credibility.

Sorry, 3:42. There is no impeachment of local officials in Mississippi. They have to resign, die, or be convicted of a felony (or lose an election, of course).

I live in Eastover and my trash has been picked up every Monday and Thursday. Not a day has been missed. I still disagree with the hiring of Richards and would like WM back because they were the low bidder and the emergency process is a sham. Plus, I like the fact that WM is going towards natural gas fueled trucks unlike the smog spewing, diesel burning Richards trucks. Funny how Chockwe doesn't mention the Democratic climate warming boogie man when it suits his purposes not to.

Yes lets again hack off the tax base

They are busy getting Jacktown garbage picked up for Former President Bill Clinton & Former Governor Haley Barbour come to town, May 3 to honor former Governor Winter. Duh you know JCC is not in their travel route! Whatcha think!

@6:59 PM - very true, but can you imagine the pants wetting if the legislature introduced local goverment impeachment legislation?

At 7:14pm

I live in the same neighborhood. I had noticed both Richards Disposal trucks as well as Waste Management trucks. For the last week or so, Have only seen Richards trucks.

I Pay an extra fee to have my garbage can collected from my garage rather than my having to take the garbage can to the street.

Does anyone know if Richards will resume this practice at some point in time?

Thank you

It’s unlikely that RDI is going unpaid. More likely, RDI is being laid by another City vendor, expecting to be reimbursed via a payment masked as unrelated.

Update Saturday morning: The garbage in the County Club has still not been picked up by Richard's. The "customer service" number from Richard's is a fake. Try it yourself: 769-333-4222. The number rings three or four times and then cuts off with the message, ""Your call cannot be completed at this time. Try again later."

Dr. Omari has been notified a number of times. Ashby Foote has been notified a number of times.

Still waiting. Garbage still sits.

3:18 :I do not live in Jackson and can say with all certainty ......when only 10,000 vote it means you f*cked yourselves and I do believe that he can be impeached. If y'all really wanted it bad enough.

Only 2600 people voted in the Brandon General election and people complain about Butch Lee all the time. Voting numbers were down around the entire state.

They better not pay Richards!! No contract and they're only rarely working!! I pay for 2x week pickup and they've only been here 2 or 3 times ALL MONTH!! Called them last week and they argued with me and said I live in the county! Uh no dumbass I've been paying sky high COJ taxes for 10 years!! I sure WISH I still lived in the county but I got annexed!!

How is that TWICE PER WEEK pickup doing for ya? Not too gooooooood…

Not approving your comment because you flat out lied.

Dude said he was just in CCJ and it was all picked up. Just posted video from last night showing it wasn't picked up. Several readers have contacted me since 9:30 to just now who live in CCJ saying there garbage was not picked up. Not approving an obvious lie.

Still isn't at 3:00 pm Saturday.