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Kudos to repair teams! Working in freezing temperatures to fix water pipe breaks is brutal.

When are the new pipes going into the ground? When are the shutoffs for nonpayment beginning? We need more results and faster. Jackson is steadily losing taxpayers.

Why wouldn’t it stabilize? Customers turning off dripping faucets AND using that 9 million gallons stored in their bathtubs!!!

I didn't lose water during this cold spell. It's the first time in ages! The pressure was good throughout this also.
The pressure did drop a little when the idiots on social media tried to pull off their shenanigans, but I still had pressure enough to shower.
I'm amazed at what Henifin has been able to accomplish with so many people fighting against him.

I didn't lose water during this cold spell. It's the first time in ages! The pressure was good throughout this also.
The pressure did drop a little when the idiots on social media tried to pull off their shenanigans, but I still had pressure enough to shower.
I'm amazed at what Henifin has been able to accomplish with so many people fighting against him.

Ditto, 6:22

Thank you, Ted!

Ted has succeeded for 2 reasons. 1. Federal funds (your tax money not customer payments). 2. Not having to comply with procurement/bidding procedures thereby speeding up the process. However 2. probably means 1. is costing more than it should.

6:22- yes Henifin is doing a good job but it would not be possible without Judge Wingate, a federal judge, putting Lamumba and his mommy sister in their place- along with the NAACP and all the grifters that show up.Thank you Judge Wingate and Mr Henifin.( and Kingfish, for staying on this and other important matters when other news organizations are asleep at the wheel- and to busy kissing Ladumba's ring)

This angers the Lumumba collective.

Even though he is actively rooting for Jackson to fail, and participating in plans to keep the residents from having safe water and reliable garbage pick up...I'd wager most of the low IQ residents still think the Lamumbles are exemplary leaders

9:21, there’s a third reason Ted is succeeding; he knows what he is doing. I know that’s hard for some people to understand in today's world where many think anyone can do any job, but when it comes to an emergency room doctor, a mechanic who repairs my brakes, or the person responsible for making sure I have good water, I’d prefer them to be competent.

And not having to comply with the Byzantine rules of government contracting is saving us money. I spent over 30 years administering federal construction contracts and it never stopped frustrating me how much more we were paying due to contracting rules. Too many contracts were awarded to “small, disadvantaged” firms who would simply skim their 15% off the top then sub it out to a real contractor. Ted is being allowed to go straight to the real contractors and saving the 15%.

8:02 am No one is angry except political goose step walkers and mental defectives who have unreasonable expectations and/or can't control their emotions.

I am SO tired of the bad behaviors that Trump and his loyalists have encouraged! Pouting and other ways of expressing displeasure with facial or body language. temper tantrums, rudeness, fearmongering and name calling is for 2-year-olds and bullies who never matured! It's not strength, being witty nor is it intellect!

Being either naive and singing Kumbaya or being a jerk or being violent or destructive or self-aggrandizing are not the only behavior choices available to humans. Being rational and well informed and understanding how things work and having constructive suggestions gained from knowledge is what well-adjusted, rational people choose.

Grow up! Food, water and shelter are basic human survival needs. And, in these days, it's become more complicated and expensive, but it can be done IF people stop clinging to ancient solutions like a living messiah and a slayer of dragons' leader of any title given or by Divine Intervention alone. As for the latter, God gave us different talents and basic rules of conduct and He expects us to use them wisely!

Let Henifin or anyone else who has gained specific knowledge and experience and proven to be successful do their job. Stand aside and stop pretending you know more than they do. I don't care if it's an athlete or the janitor in your building. Get out of his way so he can mop the floor! If you have a cleaning solution you think is better, suggesting it is fine, but you damn well ought to be sure before you embarrass yourself. It may be your floor isn't the same material as the one he's cleaning.

Truth can be backed up by facts. Lies cannot. Sometimes not enough facts are available. But THEN you try to discern which facts will help give the best solutions given what is KNOWN, not what is ideal or imagined! The latter is the basis of "common sense".

What the hell is wrong with you people? You can't accept you don't intuitively know everything and think one size fit all, all the time?

Worse these behaviors are the tools of charlatans and psychopaths and sociopaths, and they spread it like a contagion apparently. It's happened with every disastrous event in mankind's history.

And, even worse, the great minds of prior human history back to ancient Greeks have more eloquently already warned us better than I can of these self-destructing and potentially catastrophic behaviors!

8:54. I would agree with you, but Ted admitted early on that he was not a water expert (expertise is in sewer). I would also agree that fed/state contracting rules are ridiculous, however when you bring engineers/contractors from all over the country, not sure that saves money. Also, when you just "hire" someone, how do you know if it is cheaper???

There is no way that the 'government work' (aka pain in the @$$ tax) the City of Jackson pays is 15%. It must be much higher.

Between preferential procedures of all types, plus slow payment, plus all the other joyful things that go with being a vendor to the city, one can assume the pool of those interested is small.

The bids or quotes the city doesn't get from those businesses that have already fired the city as a customer play a big role in allowing those left to charge what they want to or need to.

11:06- Got that right. The meter on my house shorted out a couple of years ago and caught fire in a heavy downpour. It took a week to get my power back on - two days for the meter to be replaced and an additional three to get that slovenly shithead from the city out to inspect it before Entergy would reconnect. I swear he was drunk when he pulled up. I only had one contractor that would take the job due to the permit office being a nightmare - he obviously greases the right palms to monopolize jobs in Jackson.

9:42, I am 8:02. What does Trump and all that other nonsense in your TLDR diatribe mean? I was simply saying the Lumumba crowd would not be happy with Jxn Water's success of stabilizing the water system. Reason being is that it is pretty common knowledge a group of raucous bandits from his sister's camp have been running around town, cutting off fire hydrants trying to sabotage the good work of Henifin and Jxn Water by dropping the water pressure, yet Jxn Water pushes through their BS.

But F*** Trump though!....you honestly need real clinical help if that's how you took my comment and your thought process to reply. I bet Rachel Maddow would agree with me as well, and I can assure you he & I wouldn't agree on much else.

12:26, your first reply was self explanatory, and certainly did not warrant a nine paragraph, 500 word reply/manifesto. I think you touched a nerve in someone who forgot to take their meds.