Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Favre Blames Phil, Wants Clawback Suit Tossed

 This post is a reprint of Anna Wolfe's story that appeared in Mississippi Today Monday. 

Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre nagged former Gov. Phil Bryant for help funding a new volleyball facility at his alma mater and a pharmaceutical start-up he had invested in.

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Court Enters Consent Decree

 U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate entered the stipulated order i.e. consent decree in United States v. City of Jackson yesterday.  The order stops the complaint filed against the city yesterday. 

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Bigger Pie Forum: Where the Smart Money Goes

The legislature met in special session last week and voted $247 million in state incentives (sweeteners) for Steel Dynamics’ new $2.5 billion recycled aluminum plant and other investments.  The plant is to be built in The Golden Triangle. (Starkville-Columbus-West Point area) in Northeast Mississippi.  The justification for the incentives is jobs, related investments, and other economic multiplier effects.

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DHS Provides Medicare Enrollment Assistance

 The Department of Human Services issued the following statement. 

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Robert St. John: My Favorite Season

 It has been said that the four seasons in Mississippi are— almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas. I have friends who believe that the four seasons in Mississippi are— dove season, duck season, deer season, and turkey season. There are also people who would argue football season, basketball season, baseball season, and football pre-season. 

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Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Governor Comments on Consent Decree

 Lord Protector Tate Reeves issued the following statement. 

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Manager to Take Full Control of Jackson Water System & Billing

Water Tsar has full power to "adjust" rates. 

The EPA submitted a proposed consent decree to the U.S. District Court in Jackson for approval.  The EPA filed an enforcement action against the city of Jackson for its failure to properly maintain its water system over the last several years.  

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EPA Files Proposed Consent Decree

 The Justice Department issued the following statement. 

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Ridgeland Police Seeking Business Burglar

The Ridgeland Police Department issued the following statement.

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Prime Buffalo?

 Coach Prime confirmed the University of Colorado offered him its head football coach  job during a weekly press conference yesterday. However, the JSU Head Football Coach said Colorado was not the only school trying to hire him away from JSU.   

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Monday, November 28, 2022

The Return of the Freeze

 Auburn hired you-know-who as its next head football coach.  Sports Illustrated reported:

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Court Testimony: Child Lured to Vacant House Where Killed

A horrific story of savagery unfolded today in Jackson Municipal Court during the initial appearances for suspects accused of killing a 12 year-old boy.   

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 And..... This car can be yours...... If the price is right!

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Reed Tries to Use Tarrio's Death to Get Out of Jail

Chauncey Reed is trying to use JPD Sergeant Mike Tarrio's death as a get out of jail free card.  Reed's attorney Kevin Camp filed a motion to dismiss Reed's indictment for first degree murder and attempted murder of a law enforcement officer ten days ago in Hinds County Circuit Court.  

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Ready to Get Drunk?

 It's that time of year and you know what it means: It's time for my award-winning egg nog recipe:

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Time for Some New Blood

Out with the old, in with the new, right? 

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Sunday, November 27, 2022

JPD: 12 Year Old Killed in Russian Roulette

Suspects are 14 years old. 

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Miracle of the Day

A man fell overboard on a Carnival Cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico.  Such episodes usually end in tragedy but not this time.  The Coast Guard found him alive and well after he tread water for probably 15 hours.  Watch the rescue. 

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Pancakes & Mirrors

Giving is a topic often avoided in church but the late Dr. Frank Pollard used the parable of the Nazi mirror to illustrate how giving relates to sharing and trust.  Enjoy the 1994 sermon posted below.   

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Bill Crawford: Hospital Closures Now, Universities Next?

 “What’s your plan: to watch Rome burn and to let hospitals close?” a Louisiana healthcare expert asked regarding Mississippi’s hospital crisis. 

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Saturday, November 26, 2022

Dumbass of the Day

This video aged really well.  Chicago Mercantile Exchange CEO Terry Duffy called out the FTX fraud at a Congressional hearing back in May. He told SBF he was a "fraud" to his face back in May. However, this is Congress where no good deed goes unpunished. Big tech's stooge, Representative Ro Khanna (He is not a Star Wars character)* threatened him with criminal prosecution as he accused him of, get this, lying to Congress. You can't make this up.

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D.L. Gardner: A Call to Thanksgiving

There was a time in America when the legislative branch and the executive branch in our federal government agreed to proclaim a day of thanksgiving and prayer to Almighty God. On October 3, 1789, President George Washington made that proclamation.

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Friday, November 25, 2022

How Polo Was Caught

Posted below is a story that fell through the cracks.  It happens.  William "Napoleon" "Polo" "The Cipher" Edwards waits for his reckoning with justice behind bars after he was accused of killing Bobby Davis on May 1 in Clinton.  His preliminary hearing on October 5 in Hinds County Circuit Court yielded a great deal of information about the case.  JJ purchased the transcript and posted it below.  If interested in the case, the transcript is worth reading. 

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Canton Corruption Update: Gilkey & Grant Plead Guilty

Posted below are the plea agreements for Canton Alderman Eric Gilkey and former Canton Alderman Andrew Grant.  Both men pleaded guilty to one count of general conspiracy.  A federal grand jury indicted Rudolphus Warnock, Eric Gilkey, Cleveland Anderson, and Andrew Grant for conspiracy to commit bribery and fraud as they allegedly worked together to rip off Canton Municipal Utilities.  The grand jury indicted the defendants on December 8, 2021 but the indictments were not unsealed until Monday after a change of plea hearing was held for Gilkey and Grant.  More than a few people are following this case so the plea agreements are posted for their benefit. 

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Thursday, November 24, 2022

Ghosts of Thanksgivings Past Still Haunt

Do you think this guy still has nightmares of that Thanksgiving Day? 

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Do You want to Kill?

Do you want to eat dead, burnt bodies? 

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Don't Try This at Home

 or funny of the day.   Someone complained about not covering Elizabeth Holmes. Well, here ya go.

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More Turmoil at the Airport

The pictures on the photographic merry-go-round at the Jackson Municipal Airport are going to need some changing after this week.  A commissioner quit after he was caught living in Rankin County while Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba did not renew the term of another commissioner.  WLBT reported last night: 

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Calling out the FTX Fraud

 While the media makes excuses for SBF (Looking at you, Forbes and NYT), Coffeezilla uses the F word in his latest breakdown of the FTX scandal.  

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Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Funny of the Day

 What happens when a California couple moves to Texas? 

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Coverup for Targeting Trooper?

The coverup culture continues at the Mississippi Highway Patrol.  Unfortunately, it appears James Fischer is the latest victim of troublesome troopers protected by MHP brass.  MHP has no arrest report for James Fischer even though dashcam video showed Trooper Jason Young arrested Fischer and impounded his vehicle on June 14 in Desoto County.  It is not known if Fischer had to wear an iron mask. 

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Update on Canton Corruption Case

 The Justice Department issued a press release on the indictments of several Canton aldermen and Rudy Warnock last night.  The press release is posted below.  Comments are closed on this post.  Comment on the earlier post if you feel the need to do so.

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Robert St. John: Home is Where the Realized Nouns Are

L. Frank Baum nailed it when he penned the line, “There’s no place like home,” in his novel about the man behind the green curtain in land of Oz. Five truer words may never have been spoken. Home is where our lives grow fuller and richer. It’s one of the main sources of joy for me.

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Sid Salter: Jailing Mental Patients is an Old Problem that Remains "Unacceptable" in Mississippi

 Mississippi remains the focus of a 2016 U.S. Justice Department lawsuit which alleges, among other things, that the state “violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) by failing to provide adults with mental illness with necessary integrated, community-based mental health services.”

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Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Rukiah's Friends Call for Troops in Jackson

 You can't make this up.  Sistah Rukia and her friends called for the use of federal troops to force the state to pay for all repairs to Jackson's water and sewer infrastructure at a rally yesterday.  WAPT reported: 

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Governor Ends Jackson Emergency

 Governor Tate Reeves issued the following statement. 

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Straight Talk in Prime Time

 Coach Prime had a few words to say to his young charges before they took off for the holiday.....

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Belhaven Carjackings End in Death

 The Capitol Police Department issued the following statement. 

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Will Ten Mills Save a Hospital?

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At today's special meeting, the Board of Supervisors heard statements from GLH CEO Gary Marchand, Mr. Sam Odle (the consultant hired by the board), Congressman Bennie Thompson, State Senator David Jordan, and State Legislator Solomon Osborne.

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Expansion Coming to State Route 25

 The Mississippi Department of Transportation issued the following statement. 

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Monday, November 21, 2022

Rudy Warnock & Canton Alderman Indicted

A federal grand jury indicted Rudolphus Warnock, Eric Gilkey, Cleveland Anderson, and Andrew Grant of conspiracy to commit bribery and fraud as they allegedly worked together to loot Canton Municipal Utilities.    

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Ed Board Names Tar Heel State Superintendent

Link to Dr. Taylor's bio.

The Mississippi Department of Education issued the following statement. 

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Cedric Cornelius Pleads Guilty in Toni Johnson Case

Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens issued the following statement. 

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The Clown Comes After UMMC

The Clown is on the prowl and this time has UMMC in his cross-hairs.  Former UMMC police officer Douglas Yates sued UMMC and several campus security officials in U.S. District  Court Thursday for race discrimination and retaliation after he became separated from the hospital earlier this year.  Grenada attorney Carlos Moore represents the Grenada resident.  

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No Pain, No Gain, Right?

 Sometimes it is painful to update the resume but it must be done.  

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Sunday, November 20, 2022

Dixie National Rodeo Tix On Sale

 The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce issued the following statement. 

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Ouch!

It appears the Aggies have had enough. 

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Compassion v. Sentimentality

Is failure truly failure or is it a sifting? The late Dr. Frank Pollard pondered this question in the 1994 sermon posted below.  Enjoy.  

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Bill Crawford: Can State Really Afford Income Tax Cut?

 As expected, the top priority in Gov. Tate Reeve’s proposed budget for FY 2024 was elimination of the state income tax. The Governor noted that “Mississippi now has the 5th lowest marginal tax rate in the entire nation,” but apparently that is not good enough. “Mississippi must take further steps to remain competitive and to attract new investments to the state,” he said.

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Saturday, November 19, 2022

Love Triangle Ends in Death & Prison

 Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens issued the following statement. 

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ABA Group Votes to Drop LSAT Requirement

 The American Bar Association issued the following statement. 

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Execution Scheduled for December

 The Mississippi Supreme Court scheduled the execution of Thomas Loden, Jr. for December 14.  Loden raped and murdered a 16 year-old girl on her way home from work in 2000. 

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D.L. Gardner: Where Does Hope Come From?

 Over the past 3 to 4 years many of my Christian friends have summarized our conversations saying, “Come, Lord Jesus!” Some might see that as a sign of hope, while others, particularly secular friends would see that as a sign of hopelessness. Frankly, I see it as a sincerely hopeful sign. Maranatha!

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Friday, November 18, 2022

We Report, You Decide: Extortion or Bribery?

 Remember that $600 million hack of FTX that recently took place? Well, it turns out the Bahamas government and SBF were behind the hack.  FTX CEO filed a motion to transfer the FTX bankruptcy cases to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware yesterday.  The Court approved the transfer this morning.  Although the motion attracted little attention, there are some real nuggets of information in the filing: 

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Pelahatchie Pig Lady to Pay Up in Fraud Case

The Pelahatchie Pig Lady, aka Cheri Bowen, will pay the SEC an amount to be determined at a later date after the agency sued her for participating in a ponzi scheme.  The ponzi scheme involved the selling of bogus cryptocurrency.

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Woman Gets JPD Help After Complaining on Social Media

 A woman's son was carjacked in Jackson two days ago.  Unable to get help from JPD, she took to the pages of where else but Facebook: 

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Update on Grandfather Shooting

Byram police arrested a grandfather for shooting his grandson several times earlier this week.  However, BPD refused to release the name of the suspect because it was "domestic violence."  The suspect is Julian Lafrance.  

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Thursday, November 17, 2022

Screwing Each Other While Screwing Everyone

 Was FTX merely a playpen for children to play with other people's money?  Newly-annointed FTX CEO John Ray, III filed a rather damning report with the bankruptcy court in Delaware this morning.  The report makes clear the FTX companies were nothing more than piggy banks for SBF and his favored few.  Some highlights are: 

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30 Years for Hotel Rapist

 Madison-Rankin District Attorney Bubba Bramlett issued the following statement. 

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Let the Games Begin (Updated)

 The Jackson City Council is meeting right now about the proposed consent decree.  It is streamed below.  Watch but don't listen.  

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Get Your Message up in Lights

The Mississippi Department of Transportation issued the following statement. 


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Stokes Balks on Proposed EPA Consent Decree

 The Jackson City Council is supposed to vote on an EPA consent decree for the city's water system but there is just one problem: the City Council has not yet seen the decree.  WJTV reported last night:

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Curb Your Crypto

Worldcom, Enron, Lehman Brothers, and....... FTX.   Don't understand what is going on in the FTX implosion? Check out Coffeezilla's breakdown of the FTX takedown.  

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Madison Police Catch Escapee

 The Madison Police Department issued the following statement and mug shot.

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Grandfather Shoots Grandson

 The Byram Police Department issued the following statement. 

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Robert. St. John: Restaurantsick!

BARBERINO-TAVARNELLE, TUSCANY— Yesterday I was having a conversation with one of my travel guests who was talking about being homesick when she was sent to camp as an eight-year-old. I tried to remember a time, over the past 61 years, when I might have been homesick. I have a vague memory of visiting some cousins in the Washington D.C. area, when I was six or seven, and not wanting to spend the night there. It had nothing to do with them. They are wonderful people, it's just that I was missing my mom and brother who were staying across town with my aunt and uncle.

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Cox Pleads Guilty to Agg. Domestic Violence

 Former MHP Trooper Todd Cox  was sentenced to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to aggravated domestic violence and felony evasion on November 9 in Rankin County Circuit Court.

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Sid Salter: Gunn’s Successful Tenure as House Speaker Marked by Flag Change, Medicaid stance

 Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn’s GOP Caucus announcement that he was not seeking re-election in 2023 brings to a close a tenure as the state’s first Republican leader of the House of Representatives since Reconstruction.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Idiots of the Day.

 Good job, Kentucky Fried Chicken, good job.  You can't make this up.  The New York Times reported: 

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Express Grain Still Owes Bank $35.8 Million

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In the ongoing saga of the bankruptcy of Express Grain Terminals and its companion companies, Express Processing and Express Biodiesel (together, "EG"), new details have emerged regarding the money that UMB Bank has lost in the whole debacle.

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Canton Killer Convicted

 Madison-Rankin District Attorney Bubba Bramlett issued the following statement and mug shot. 

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Will He or Won't He?

Is State Senator Christopher McDaniel going to run for Lieutenant Governor? 

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Mayor Asks for More Time

 Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba wants the state to support the Jackson water system for a little while longer.  Mayor Lumumba asked Governor Reeves in an email yesterday:  

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Monday, November 14, 2022

AG Gets $6 Million in Google Tracking Settlement

Attorney Generalissimo Lynn Fitch issued the following statement.

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Lawsuit Seeks to Ban Abortion in Mississippi

 The Mississippi Institute for Justice issued the following statement. 

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PIT Stops in Pearl

 The city of Pearl got some new hardware for police chases. 

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The Return of the Epps

Former MDOC Commissioner Chris Epps may be gone off to prison but he is not forgotten.  CNBC's American Greed focuses on the Chris Epps scandal tomorrow night.  The preview is posted below. 

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State Auditor Demands $1.9 Million from Prison Management Co.

State Auditor Shad White issued the following statement. 

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Who is Worthy?

 Many try but few are chosen.  Who is worthy?

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Sunday, November 13, 2022

Recap: Low Key Edition

 Enjoy Chris Fowler's  rather low key recap of college football last night as more chaos entered the college football world yesterday. 

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How to Have it All

Asking for love and only getting beef liver was the theme of this 1994 sermon presented by Dr. Frank Pollard of First Baptist Church (Jackson).  The late preachers preached on how to have it all through giving, not taking.  Dr. Pollard even recited a Charlie Brown scene.  Enjoy. 

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Bill Crawford: To Catch or not Catch Cheaters

 During lunch at the North Jackson Rotary Club last Tuesday, State Auditor Shad White talked of his agency’s efforts to catch people who steal taxpayers’ money, a la Nancy New and the TANF scandal. 

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Saturday, November 12, 2022

Flashback: The Tables are Turned

Regionalization for the various water and sewer systems in the Jackson metro area has been discussed as a possible solution for Jackson's water problems.  Mississippi Today's Geoffrey Pender reported in September

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Child Molester on the Run

Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens issued the following statement.

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D.L. Garner: What are the Most Important Things in our Lifetimes?

Reading through columns from the fall of 2020 before that year’s election, I hoped to get some ideas about what to write this week. What a hoot! A column in September was titled “Most important election in our lifetimes.” In October, “Censoring for the good of the people.” In November a few days before the election, “What if the LEFT wins,” and after the election, “The new standard.”

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Friday, November 11, 2022

Back to the Table

Get ready for some action.  The John Wick 4 trailer dropped. 

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Ode to a Downtown Driver

His eyes were absent of fear as he sped past for the third time in his pilfered Jackson police cruiser, almost oblivious to the chain of screaming squad cars following like flies after a Chicago meat wagon.

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Trooper: "I'm Going to See This M********** Today"

Did MHP Trooper Jason Young retaliate against James Fischer for his Facebook posts about the trooper?  Fischer created a Facebook page about the trooper after Young cited him for careless driving and impounded his vehicle.  A few months later, the trooper said "I'm going to see this mother****** today" and see him he did as he arrested Fischer and impounded his vehicle.  JJ reported on this case earlier this week but dug deeper and discovered some rather disturbing facts. 

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Thursday, November 10, 2022

CHASE!

 You can't make this up.  A homeless man stole a JPD cruiser in front of the King Edward Hotel tonight.  He led at least a dozen police cars on a nice little chase after he spun around a few times on Capitol Street. A video of a part of the chase is posted below. The chase ended when he crashed on Woodrow Wilson by the McDonald's. 

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Government is Coming to Gluckstadt

The city of Gluckstadt issued the following statement. 

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Suspect in UMMC Carjacking Caught (Updated)

The Capitol Police nabbed a suspect in the assault and carjacking of a UMMC employee in the hospital parking lot.  Good job, woof, woof.

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Large Water Main Breaks on Fortification Street

 The city of Jackson issued the following statement. 

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Prison Guard Pleads Guilty to Covid Relief Fraud

 The Justice Department issued the following statement. 

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Wednesday, November 9, 2022

UMC Employee Assaulted

 The University of Mississippi Medical Center issued the following email to its employees today. 

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Gunn Gone

 Speaker of the House Philip Gunn issued the following statement. 

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Bedwetter Alert

 Sometimes everyone really does get a trophy.....

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Barbara Dunn Passes Away

 The family of former Hinds County Circuit Clerk Barbara Dunn issued the following statement. 

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Robert St. John: RSJ's Tuscan Top Ten

Barberino-Tavarnelle, Tuscany— For the past 11 years I have spent considerable time in this region. Specifically in the two towns of Barberino and Tavarnelle in the Tuscan countryside exactly halfway between Florence and Siena.

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Mayor Begs President for Help

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba asked President Joe Biden to extend Jackson's state of emergency for its water system for another six months in a November 3 letter. 

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Sid Salter: Election Spending Approaches $10 Billion to sway Control of Congress

 The 2022 midterm congressional political advertising spend is projected at over $9.7 billion, up from the $5.95 billion spent in the 2020 congressional election cycle. The tracking was reported by AdImpact Politics.

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Sheriff Catches Arson Suspect

 Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones announced on Facebook: 

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JPD Seeking Arson Suspect

 JPD issued the following statement. 

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Lock & Load

 An escape is in progress at the Raymond Detention Center.  Several agencies have been called in to assist with drones and dogs. 

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IORT Surgery Beats Cancer, Spares Healthy Tissue

 Ruth Cumins authored the following press release for UMC. 

Geremias Lux Pu has battled cancer over and over, but that hasn’t diminished his will to live and resolve to kick the disease as many times as it takes.

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Mardis Case Update

Todd Mardis attempt to seek therapy at a swanky spa in Houston several weeks ago failed when Rankin County Court Judge David Morrow rejected his request to leave the state of Mississippi for the treatment.   Flowood police charged him with aggravated domestic violence in the brutal beating of his wife in October.  He remains free on a $750,000 bond but can not leave the state without the Court's permission.  Dr. Alyssa Killibrew  recommended his treatment at the facility to the Court.  His motion to modify the conditions of the release stated: 

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Will Epps Get out of Prison?

 Surprise, surprise. Disgraced former MDOC Commissioner Chris Epps wants to get out of prison.  Epps filed a motion for compassionate release last year.  U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate will hold a hearing on December 1.  The court docket states: 

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Monday, November 7, 2022

Dominate!

 Coach Prime was not happy with a 21-7 halftime lead Saturday against Texas Southern.  Nope. Not happy at all.

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Tate & Thompson Trade Blows over Jackson's Water System

If Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson thought he could intimidate Governor Tate Reeves with a congressional investigation he is sorely mistaken as the Governor took off the gloves and put on the brass knuckles as he responded to the Congressman's attempt to place the all blame of Jackson's water system collapse at the feet of state government.

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Mayor Holds Regular Press Conference

 Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is holding his weekly press conference right now.  The presser is streamed below.

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Dismembered Body Found

 JPD issued the following statement. 

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The Case of the (Alleged) Targeting Trooper

Is Trooper Jason Young a power-hungry cop or a pursuer of justice? A video making the rounds accuses the MHP trooper of targeting a driver in Desoto County because he dared to complain on Facebook about a ticket he received.  The video is posted below. 

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When Hope Yields to Despair

It is important to know that when despair replaces all hope, there are still people who care about you. 

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Sunday, November 6, 2022

Funny of the Day

The Pirate apparently had enough last night.

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After Further Review

Helluva game last night but the Tigers prevailed in overtime on a gutsy call. Check out Fowler and Herbstreit's more relaxed recap of college football yesterday on the plane last night.   Now will SEC Shorts actually do something about the Aggies? The implosion is comedy gold.  

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The Real Thing Rubs Off

What do seeds, light, aliens, and funny money have to do with each other? Watch below as the late Dr. Frank Pollard (First Baptist Jackson) tied them all together in the 1994 sermon.  The sermon starts with some promotion about missions so start at 8:00. Enjoy.  

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Bill Crawford: Can Common Sense Win Again?

 So it comes to a head once again. Earlier this year common sense won over nonsense when the Legislature chose not to fully eliminate personal income taxes. Instead, it moved to phase out the 4% tax bracket plus a few other changes.

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Saturday, November 5, 2022

Funny of the Day

 This young dude named Chappelle just might make it big one day.

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MDEQ Awards $35.6 Million to Jackson for Water/Sewer Projects

The city of Jackson will get some desperately needed funds for its water and sewer system.   The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality awarded $35.6 million in ARPA funds to five water and two sewer projects in Jackson yesterday. 

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D.L. Gardner: Freedom of Speech is not a Loser

America is a fighting nation. Candidates promise to fight for constituents. Lawyers promise to fight for clients. Whole organizations have been created to fight for or against whatever. We fight for some things, and we fight against other things. Why? We fight to win!

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Friday, November 4, 2022

UMC W/Draws GLH Offer

 This post is reprinted with the permission of the Taxpayers Channel (Greenwood). 

A few moments ago, Greenwood Leflore Hospital announced that UMMC has terminated and withdrawn from negotiations to lease the hospital and operate it going forward.

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Jackson Losing More Water Customers?

 More and more major customers are leaving Jackson's sputtering water system.  WAPT reported: 

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JPD Seeks Help from Ole Miss

 The Jackson Police Department is participating in a study at the Center of Evidence-Based Policing & Reform at Ole Miss.  The video posted below even includes an introduction by none other than Morgan Freeman.  Yes, The Voice even got involved in the project. The short video shows where JPD is going.  Check it out.

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JSU Enrollment Surges

Jackson State University issued the following statement. 

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PERS Continues to Weather the Storm

The financial markets continued to batter PERS as its investments were -5.2% in the first quarter of the 2023 fiscal year.  PERS suffered a -8.5 rate of return for FY 2022. 

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

Thieves Hit Vehicle of Coach Prime's Son

Apparently no vehicle is safe in Jackson, not even one belonging to JSU "royalty."  Thieves broke into Shilo Sanders' vehicle that was parked right outside the JSU football practice facility yesterday evening.  Young Sanders discussed it with his father and showed the damage in the video posted below.   

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20 Years for Shooting Fibbie

The Justice Department issued the following press release. 

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Hubigs are Coming

Great news.  Hubig Pies are one step closer to becoming a reality again and yes, they will be available for sale online.  WWL reported on the return of the New Orleans favorite:

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Ex-NFL Player Indicted Again

 The downward spiral continues for former NFL player Quinton Culberson.  A Hinds County grand jury indicted him in October for burglary of a church, business burglary, grand larceny, and auto burglary.  The charges are just one more episode in a string of arrests and substance abuse problems over the last ten years.  

 

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Atticus Returns

 To Kill a Mockingbird.  No words are needed to describe the Hollywood classic.  Although you've watched it for years on your tv screens, you have a chance to see it on the big screen for (in my best tv used car salesman voice) for two days only.  Showtimes are posted below.

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Studio 7 Gets Lucky

 One step forward, two steps back is the best way to describe Jackson's effort to shut down a dilapidated hotel on I-55 frontage road in North Jackson.   WLBT reported:

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Legislature Passes Project

 Governor Tate Reeves issued the following press release. 

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Open Enrollment Opens for ACA Marketplace

 Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney issued the following statement. 

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UMC to Greenwood-Leflore Hospital: Pay Up

 This post is reprinted with permission of the Taxpayers Channel in Greenwood. 

Today, the city council heard from Tray Hairston, a financing attorney from Butler Snow.

Mr. Hairston came to explain the way that the city could finance the $4.5 million that it has to pay in order to repair the hospital, and to pay off the multi-million dollar short term loan to the hospital from Medicare.

GLH is practically broke, and may well have to shut down completely by the end of November. The city and county have been negotiating with UMMC for a friendly takeover, but several "deal breakers" have arisen. Now UMMC is demanding that the city and county pay for $9.1 million in repairs and Medicare loan repayments, since UMMC isn't responsible for them.

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Dick Hall Passes

 The Mississippi Department of Transportation issued the following statement. 

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Robert St. John: The Second Love

BARBERINO-TAVARNELLE, ITALY— Is it possible that one can fall in love with a town? I love my hometown of Hattiesburg, Mississippi— deeply— and can’t see myself living anywhere else. Ever. But I am a sixth-generation citizen in that part of the world. My roots are deep there. My history is long there. My businesses are there. Most of my family and friends are there. I didn’t fall in love with it. I’ve always loved it. To fall in love with a place one wants to travel to, time and time again, is rare to my thinking.

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YOU Can Design the New State License Plate

 Governor Tate Reeves issued the following statement. 

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Sid Salter: Flawed & Human, Jerry Lee Lewis Significantly Impacted American Pop Culture

 When I learned that Jerry Lee Lewis, the volatile rock-and-roll legend who lived most of his life in Nesbit, Mississippi, had died at the age of 87 last week, I opened YouTube and searched for The Killer’s 1977 rendition of an old Sonny Throckmorton song I know by heart called “Middle Age Crazy” about a man foolishly trying to hold on to his youth.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Choose Wisely

 Hope and change, Hope and change.....

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Brandon Man Arrested for Witness Tampering in Domestic Violence Case

Rankin County deputies arrested a former MHP trooper for witness tampering.  Violating a no-contact order, Todd Cox tried several times to get his wife to drop aggravated domestic violence charges she filed against him in May.  

Cox listens to Judge Morrow
 

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"You Have to Change to Expect Change"

 Coach Prime used the shooting death of rapper Takeoff to teach his team some valuable lessons.   Check out what he had to say as he laid down the law on his young charges. 

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Judge Reeves Appoints Jail Receiver

 U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves appointed Wendell France, Sr. to be the Receiver of the Raymond Detention Center yesterday.  Judge Reeves took over the jail in June after he ruled Hinds County was not capable of managing the facility.

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DHS Busts More Fraud

 The Department of Human Services issued the following statement. 

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Trollfest '09

Trollfest '07 was such a success that Jackson Jambalaya will once again host Trollfest '09. Catch this great event which will leave NE Jackson & Fondren in flames. Othor Cain and his band, The Black Power Structure headline the night while Sonjay Poontang returns for an encore performance. Former Frank Melton bodyguard Marcus Wright makes his premier appearance at Trollfest singing "I'm a Sweet Transvestite" from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Kamikaze will sing his new hit, “How I sold out to da Man.” Robbie Bell again performs: “Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be Bells” and “Any friend of Ed Peters is a friend of mine”. After the show, Ms. Bell will autograph copies of her mug shot photos. In a salute to “Dancing with the Stars”, Ms. Bell and Hinds County District Attorney Robert Smith will dance the Wango Tango.

Wrestling returns, except this time it will be a Battle Royal with Othor Cain, Ben Allen, Kim Wade, Haley Fisackerly, Alan Lange, and “Big Cat” Donna Ladd all in the ring at the same time. The Battle Royal will be in a steel cage, no time limit, no referee, and the losers must leave town. Marshand Crisler will be the honorary referee (as it gives him a title without actually having to do anything).


Meet KIM Waaaaaade at the Entergy Tent. For five pesos, Kim will sell you a chance to win a deed to a crack house on Ridgeway Street stuffed in the Howard Industries pinata. Don't worry if the pinata is beaten to shreds, as Mr. Wade has Jose, Emmanuel, and Carlos, all illegal immigrants, available as replacements for the it. Upon leaving the Entergy tent, fig leaves will be available in case Entergy literally takes everything you have as part of its Trollfest ticket price adjustment charge.

Donna Ladd of The Jackson Free Press will give several classes on learning how to write. Smearing, writing without factchecking, and reporting only one side of a story will be covered. A donation to pay their taxes will be accepted and she will be signing copies of their former federal tax liens. Ms. Ladd will give a dramatic reading of her two award-winning essays (They received The Jackson Free Press "Best Of" awards.) "Why everything is always about me" and "Why I cover murders better than anyone else in Jackson".

In the spirit of helping those who are less fortunate, Trollfest '09 adopts a cause for which a portion of the proceeds and donations will be donated: Keeping Frank Melton in his home. The “Keep Frank Melton From Being Homeless” booth will sell chances for five dollars to pin the tail on the jackass. John Reeves has graciously volunteered to be the jackass for this honorable excursion into saving Frank's ass. What's an ass between two friends after all? If Mr. Reeves is unable to um, perform, Speaker Billy McCoy has also volunteered as when the word “jackass” was mentioned he immediately ran as fast as he could to sign up.


In order to help clean up the legal profession, Adam Kilgore of the Mississippi Bar will be giving away free, round-trip plane tickets to the North Pole where they keep their bar complaint forms (which are NOT available online). If you don't want to go to the North Pole, you can enjoy Brant Brantley's (of the Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance) free guided tours of the quicksand field over by High Street where all complaints against judges disappear. If for some reason you are unable to control yourself, never fear; Judge Houston Patton will operate his jail where no lawyers are needed or allowed as you just sit there for minutes... hours.... months...years until he decides he is tired of you sitting in his jail. Do not think Judge Patton is a bad judge however as he plans to serve free Mad Dog 20/20 to all inmates.

Trollfest '09 is a pet-friendly event as well. Feel free to bring your dog with you and do not worry if your pet gets hungry, as employees of the Jackson Zoo will be on hand to provide some of their animals as food when it gets to be feeding time for your little loved one.

Relax at the Fox News Tent. Since there are only three blonde reporters in Jackson (being blonde is a requirement for working at Fox News), Megan and Kathryn from WAPT and Wendy from WLBT will be on loan to Fox. To gain admittance to the VIP section, bring either your Republican Party ID card or a Rebel Flag. Bringing both and a torn-up Obama yard sign will entitle you to free drinks served by Megan, Wendy, and Kathryn. Get your tickets now. Since this is an event for trolls, no ID is required. Just bring the hate. Bring the family, Trollfest '09 is for EVERYONE!!!

This is definitely a Beaver production.


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Trollfest '07

Jackson Jambalaya is the home of Trollfest '07. Catch this great event which promises to leave NE Jackson & Fondren in flames. Sonjay Poontang and his band headline the night with a special steel cage, no time limit "loser must leave town" bout between Alan Lange and "Big Cat"Donna Ladd following afterwards. Kamikaze will perform his new song F*** Bush, he's still a _____. Did I mention there was no referee? Dr. Heddy Matthias and Lori Gregory will face off in the undercard dueling with dangling participles and other um, devices. Robbie Bell will perform Her two latest songs: My Best Friends are in the Media and Mama's, Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to be George Bell. Sid Salter of The Clarion-Ledger will host "Pin the Tail on the Trial Lawyer", sponsored by State Farm.

There will be a hugging booth where in exchange for your young son, Frank Melton will give you a loooong hug. Trollfest will have a dunking booth where Muhammed the terrorist will curse you to Allah as you try to hit a target that will drop him into a vat of pig grease. However, in the true spirit of Separate But Equal, Don Imus and someone from NE Jackson will also sit in the dunking booth for an equal amount of time. Tom Head will give a reading for two hours on why he can't figure out who the hell he is. Cliff Cargill will give lessons with his .80 caliber desert eagle, using Frank Melton photos as targets. Tackleberry will be on hand for an autograph session. KIM Waaaaaade will be passing out free titles and deeds to crackhouses formerly owned by The Wood Street Players.

If you get tired come relax at the Fox News Tent. To gain admittance to the VIP section, bring either your Republican Party ID card or a Rebel Flag. Bringing both will entitle you to free drinks.Get your tickets now. Since this is an event for trolls, no ID is required, just bring the hate. Bring the family, Trollfest '07 is for EVERYONE!!!

This is definitely a Beaver production.

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