Jackson Jambalaya

The Magnolia State is booming. Since Tate Reeves became governor, more than $40 billion of investment has poured in — and hardly a week goes by without news of another mega deal.

 It's the time of year when you, the readers, support your favorite Jackson website.  Your support makes this website possible and it would not have made it this far without you.  However, the need for your support remains as strong as ever. 

 Good job, morons. You managed to ruin a good thing.  Feel proud of yourselves.  Dumbasses. 

 The Mississippi Museum of Art issued the following statement Tuesday.  

 Hinds County District Attorney Bradley McCullough issued the following statement. 

 Was the appointment of the Interim Hinds County District Attorney constitutional? C.J. Lemasters reported at WLBT: 

 Summertime means it's Popeye time as in spinach.  Yup, the ZeroBear PolyBeaar has a nice little recipe for some creamed spinach or as he calls it, Spinach Madeline.  Download the recipe and cook away. 

 Former Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens surrendered his law license to the Mississippi Bar.  Owens pleaded guilty to conspiracy in federal court two weeks ago.  

 Just another dude coming to Madison County.....

 It will be awhile before accused synagogue burner Stephen Spencer Pittman faces justice. 

Everyone loves quoting the Declaration of Independence. Fewer people have actually read it.

 Carlos Moore may be in Georgia but rest assured, Mississippi is not far from his heart as he gets his grift on. The suspended attorney is now calling himself "The People's Judge" as he race baits on the Nolan Wells case. Check out what he is up to now.  

 Robert Laird passed away earlier this week due to cancer.  He wasn't known to many people nor but he was one of those characters who makes life interesting. Check out his obituary: 

 Hinds County District Attorney Bradley McCullough issued the following statement. 

Luck, providence, divine intervention, whatever you call it, this dog was blessed.  

Dear Prosecutors & Judges: We are watching you on this case.   

Jushun "Red" Paige is back in jail after the Capitol Police arrested him on June 29 for auto burglary.   Paige was involved in the brutal murder of Chelsae Kirschten in 2017.  

 U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan, III scheduled William McHenry's sentencing for next month: 

 WLBT reported Governor Tate Reeves cancelled the special election for Hinds County District 2 Supervisor: 

JPD officers make nearly double what they earned ten years ago. JJ obtained a roster of JPD employees and their salaries through a public records request.   The city of Jackson reported there are 348 employees at JPD.  

 Perfection finally showed up at my house last week. I ate it over the kitchen sink.

It took 64 years to find. That hardly seems fair, but peaches don’t operate on fairness. They’re ready when they’re ready, stay that way for a brief minute, and then start heading in the other direction.

This one was perfect.

 The unexpected and untimely death of Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, along with the significant physical ailments of 84-year-old former GOP Senate Majority Leader U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, makes an already uncertain midterm election cycle even more so and could make key elements of Republican Trump’s agenda more difficult to pass in the Senate.

 JPD issued the following statement. 

 Lord Protector Tate Reeves issued the following statement. 

Remember when egg prices skyrocketed? Well, a wee bit of price-fixing might have had something to do with it.  The Justice Department announced Ridgeland's Cal-Maine and three other egg producers settled price fixing charges. Cal-Maine must pay $1.5 million to several states and donate 30 million eggs to various non-profit organizations.  However, the founding family members of Cal-Maine sold stock for $320 million after learning of the federal probe. 

 The Jackson City Council passed a 183-day moratorium on the construction of data centers this morning on a vote of 5-2.  Councilmen Ashby Foote and Vernon Hartley voted against the measure. 

Jackson's sales tax revenue remained the same as in 2025 even though it faces a $23 million budget shortfall.  Check out how your city fared in collecting sales tax.*

 The Capitol Police issued the following statement. 

 Jackson Mayor John Horhn issued the following statement. 

 Jackson Mayor John Horhn issued the following statement. 

It is forgotten that once upon a time, Iran firebombed bookstores in the United States.  Translators in other countries were killed.  Publishers were shot.  More bookstores were burned.  Jonathan Rosen recounts the Mullah's reign of terror across the publishing world in The Free Press: 

 The city of Jackson might soon be broke.  Mayor John Horhn sent this letter to the Jackson City Council: 

 The organizers of the "car show" held in downtown Jackson Saturday made sure it was a safe event. 

 A street takeover took place during a "car show" that took place on North State Street Saturday.   Check out the fun. 

 Hmmm...... what is wrong with this picture? 

 It has a good side and a dark side.  At times it is called the root of all evil but is also an ally of the good.  We are of course talking about money or rather, the love of money.  The late Dr. Frank Pollard wove a sermon about money from the words of the Prophet Malachi and a story about the two-toed tree toad.  What does a two-toed tree toad have to do with Malachi? Watch the 1998 sermon posted below. 

 When you take the buffalo by the horns....

The Supreme Court’s 6–3 ruling to undo the 90-year-old Humphrey’s Executor case has undermined the purpose of independent commissions. The court ruled President Trump may fire Senate approved members of the Federal Trade Commission before their terms expire. Humphrey’s Executor, a 1935 ruling, and related statutes, had allowed Congress to create independent agencies to mitigate political interference.  

 Update: Berry's removed the post. 

Even Berry's must suffer the ingrates. 

 State Treasurer David McRae blasted Congressman Bennie Thompson over his criticism of the newly-created Trump accounts.  Mr. McRae said on social media: 

 Dave and Buster's is coming to Ridgeland.   

 The Clinton Police Department issued the following statement. 

Imagine if there had never been a Declaration of Independence.

The Mississippi Bar asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to suspend Chokwe Antar Lumumba from the practice of law this afternoon.  Lumumba pleaded guilty to conspiracy in U.S. District Court Monday. 

Radio Strongman KIM Waaaaaade was on fire yesterday as he vented his spleen on the Nolan Wells controversy.  Listen to his show below.  Yours truly dropped in later in the show as he traveled back from Yazoo City.  A transcript is posted below as well.  

Lord Protector Tate Reeves issued the following statement. 

 After fighting alligators for many years, Ricky Flynt managed to escaped the jaws of some redneck justice yesterday up in Yazoo County Justice Court.  

 JPD issued the following statement.

 It's summertime and you know what that means: beach time.  However, what do you do with all that shrimp when it's time to come home after despoiling 30A? Thankfully, ZeroBear PolyBear has the perfect solution.  Check out his Shrimp Freddy recipe in a downloadable format. 

 Jackson Mayor John Horhn issued the following statement. 

 The place? A Texaco gas station on Medgar Evers Boulevard.  The time? Who knows.  

 Millsaps College issued the following statement. 

 To keep household electricity and local tax bills stable, there may be no single more effective solution today than a local data center. Our basic local infrastructure systems – electricity, roads, water/sewer – are steadily getting more expensive to maintain, meaning some level of population and/or revenue growth is needed to keep per capita costs down. 

 A confessed child rapist received a $14 million bond yesterday in Jackson Municipal Court.  

 Well, well, well, it appears the Po-Po did not take too kindly to that video showing Goodman has no police.  

 Will National Credit Union Administration Board seize family cats? 

A federal judge froze all assets and accounts belonging to Leigh and Chad Bridges in the Jackson Area Federal Credit Union scandal.  Leigh was the President of JAFCU until she was fired earlier this year when the National Credit Union Administration Board uncovered an alleged embezzlement of up to $95 million.  The Bridges allegedly used the funds to purchase a Steinway piano, $10,000 handbags, multiple homes in Eastover and on the beach, and expensive jewelry.  

 First Consul Tate Reeves issued the following statement. 

 Yet another accused child molester drew the wrath of Jackson Municipal Court Judge Jeff Reynolds this week.  

 Mazzio's Pizza is no more as the company ceased operations Friday at all locations.  

 I was married by an Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas.

Jackson is going to lose Chick-Fil-A.  Chick-Fil-A will close the East County Line Road store in Jackson and move down the street into the site of the old Logan's Roadhouse.  The Ridgeland Board of Ealdormen are expected to approve the company's application tonight.  

 Police? What Poh-lice? 

 A new twist on a classic.  

Jackson Municipal Court Judge Jeff Reynolds issued a $14 million bond for a man accused of molesting a minor relative.  

 The 1927 Mississippi River Flood was what probability expert Nassim Taleb calls a Black Swan event. Europeans once thought all swans were white.  Then black swans were discovered in Australia. The Black Swan metaphor describes rare, unforeseeable, high-impact events — that seem foreseeable after they happen. 

 After months of speculation, the Mississippi Bar is finally moving to revoke Jody Owens' law license.  

 How the mighty have fallen.  Former Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba pleaded guilty to conspiracy in federal court today.  

AUSA David Fulcher & Chokwe Lumumba

 Jackson Mayor John Horhn issued the following statement. 

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Former Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and City Councilman Aaron Banks will plead guilty to public corruption charges in federal court this afternoon. 

 Check out the economic development taking place on Bailey Avenue. 

 Two years of litigation went for naught as the Mississippi Supreme Court threw out all orders in the Mockingbird investor lawsuit as it ruled Hinds County Circuit Judge Debra Gibbs improperly transferred the case to another judge last month.   

This image is a use of satire and parody.

 Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones is holding a press conference now on the murder that took place at the Raymond Detention Center last week.  The presser is live-streamed below, courtesy of WLBT. 

 Mielun Butler died at the hands of his fellow inmates Friday.  JPD arrested and charged Butler with murder in a homicide that took place at Rebelwood Apartments.  

 Governor Tate Reeves issued the following statement. 

 Everything can grow stale even faith.  Staleness becomes a quicksand, capturing us the more we struggle.  What does one do when one's heart grows silent, when the song dies?  The late Dr. Frank Pollard pondered this problem aloud as he delved into Psalm 40 when David spoke of how he was mired in the mud until the Lord rescued him.  Enjoy the 1998 sermon posted below. 

 "The liberal arts are facing incredibly difficult times right now,” said Dr. Daniel Jasper, Provost and Dean of the College at Millsaps College. Jasper came to Millsaps a year ago from William Jewell College in Liberty, MI, where he led initiatives to reshape the school’s academic landscape. At Millsaps, he seeks to reshape its liberal arts landscape.

"Tonight, there is much to celebrate." So said Ronaldus Magnus as he addressed the nation on Independence Day in 1986.  Today is America's 250th birthday.  A nation birthed in freedom and liberty has lasted a quarter of a millennium.    We've had our challenges, blood has been spilled, and the skies darkened at times but through it all, we stood together to create something for travelers to marvel at as they come to the World Cup.  Enjoy President Reagan's short address.  The transcript is posted below as well. 

 Just another day in Jacktown or why we can't have nice things reason #_______. 

 Singing patriotic hymns together in church stirred the emotions and memories of the congregation last Sunday. What a great time of unity, of oneness, of being a part of something bigger than our own little worlds! Older folks sang harmoniously from memory alongside younger generations and little children.

 JPD Chief Rashall Brackney said a stolen JPD short-barrel rifle was used in the triple homicide that took place last week in Jackson at a press conference today. 

 Did some jail justice take place at the Raymond Detention Center? 

 There' going to be a rumble downtown in Jacktown Monday. 

 Mr. Skyhook just had to get into it with Wanda Evers.   Mr. Tariq Abdul-Tawwab  Skyhook has a radio show on WMPR.  Ms. Evers owns the station.  Just watch for yourself.  

 It appears the city of Jackson missed out on a major grant for repairing Woodrow Wilson Road because it could not properly fill out an application.  

Let's face it.  Onion rings are considered a delicacy here in the Deep South as we do love our fried food or "The Brown Food" as Professor Steffey would call it.  The ZeroBear PolyBear provided us a rather tasty recipe for onion rings in a downloadable format.   Fire up the stove and get to work. 

 Chris Rock gives advice on how to find the right neighborhood. 

 Jackson Mayor John Horhn and JPD Chief Rashall Brackney are holding a press conference on public safety right now.  It is live-streamed below. 

 Just another day in Jacktown.  

Some people just can't allow others to have a good time.  You know the type - always angry, always miserable.  One of the unexpected treasures of the World Cup has been watching a German tourist named Freddy documenting his travels across America on X.   

 JPD issued the following statement. 

 Jackson Mayor John Horhn addressed the recent spate of violence in Jackson. 

 State Auditor Shad White issued the following statement. 

 The office of the Hinds County District Attorney issued the following statement. 

 Well, well, well, look who got a "Get Out of Jail Free" card in January. 

 The rise and fall of a Florida private school's football program provides a cautionary tale to Mississippi private schools who "recruit" public school football players for their own rosters.  The Wall Street Journal reported Monday:

 His childhood friends called him Dickie. His mother called him Richard, usually when he was in trouble. The Air Force called him Sergeant 18693432. His friends and the men he did business with called him Rick. His daughters' high school friends called him Captain Rick, because by then he was a sailor. Then the grandchildren came along, and "Captain Rick" was too big a mouthful for a toddler, so it got shortened to Cappy. For the past quarter century, that is who he was to all of us.

 State Auditor Shad White issued the following statement. 

 Sometimes we forget America is the beautiful as visiting World Cup soccer fans have reminded us thanks to the power of social media. 

 The resignation of Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens means we are going to get us a new D.A.  What are the rules? Will a special election be held? Good questions all.  Fortunately for you, JJ found the relevant section in the Mississippi Code.  Section 23-15-843 states: 

 It will come as no surprise to learn Cornelius and Jordan Carter (Unrelated) are graduates of the Hinds County Catch & Release program.  The two men are charged with capital murder in the deaths of two sisters and a two-year old child that took place last weekend. 

Update: Bond denied. 

JPD arrested two suspects in the triple murder of two women and a two year-old child that took place last weekend. 

 Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens, II is pleading guilty to public corruption charges right now in U.S. District Court.  A federal grand jury indicted Owens for conspiracy, bribery (3 counts) us of an interstate facility in aid of racketeering, honest services fraud, and money laundering.

 Dr. Chief fired Deputy Police Chief Wendell Watts this morning.  Let the head rolling begin.  

The Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be received by Election Day.  The Wall Street Journal reported: 

Or pitch instead of bitch - as in pitching in to help.  

Update: The work and materials were DONATED! Yes, these people are bitching about free work done on the bathrooms at Parham Bridges Park. 

Some people are so dumb that few things make sense to them.  Exhibit A: Tariq Abdul-Tawwab Skyhook and his crew.   They were last seen whining about the improvements at Parham Bridges Park on their "Make It Make Sense" Facebook page. 

 Jackson Mayor John Horhn issued the following statement. 

 Update (6/29): The Hinds County Coroner said Erica Weathersby, Keyana Weathersby, and Camari Weathersby were the victims.  Camari is two years-old and the daughter of Keyana. May they rest in peace. 

Two women and a two year-old child were murdered on Queen Alexandria Lane late last night. JPD is looking for a 2020 red Mitsubishi Mirage bearing tag number HSI 205 . A picture of the vehicle is posted below. 

 The king of Hollywood comedy celebrates a century today.   Thanks for the laughs.  There were many of them. 

It is a cancer, an acid that destroys as it builds up, ruining lives.   We are of course, talking about sin.  The late Dr. Frank Pollard said one rarely gets away with sin as it has its own built-in punishment.  Fortunately, Dr. Pollard sermonized, there is a way to cleanse oneself of sin.  See what he had to say as he preached from Psalms 34 and 32 in the 1998 sermon posted below. 

Applaud him or curse him, NY Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman’s surprisingly candid comments on the Iran war deserve consideration. Friedman, who won two Pulitzer Prizes reporting on the region, is Jewish. In a podcast with NY Times Opinion editor Dan Watkins, he said: 

 U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan, III will hold a hearing to decide whether to exclude Jody Owens' expert witnesses expected to testify at his upcoming public corruption trial. The hearing has not been scheduled. The order is posted below.  

Live from Hemingway Circle.....

 The end of an era comes to the Jackson Medical Mall. 

 Across Mississippi, government bodies spend public money hiring lobbyists — to lobby government. I would not have believed quite how much of it goes on until we built the tool that lays it bare.

 The TikTokkers have discovered Madison.  Watch out. 

 JPD issued the following statement. 

 It appears our little (alleged) synagogue burner has recovered from his wounds.  

 Check out the agenda for a special meeting of the Jackson City Council. 

 There is nothing like a plate of a tasty pork loin and some greens.  The ZeroBear PolyBear provided us with this scrumptious recipe in a downloadable format.  Enjoy .

 Dow Yoder is back in jail.   

In 1950, the Corps of Engineers told Congress that when the Mississippi River is high, part of it flows down the Atchafalaya River at the juncture of an old river bed — and that it would all flow that way by 1975. That would be a catastrophe for people, cities, and plants at and below Baton Rouge on the Mississippi and in the Atchafalaya basin and for the nation’s river commerce and national security.

 Check out the damage the Jackson Area Federal Credit Union suffered from the "alleged" Bridges embezzlement. 

Accused synagogue arsonist Stephen Pittman seeks a continuance in his federal trial scheduled for August 3.  

A local TikToker made a rather humorous observation while shopping recently. 

 Live from downtown in Jacktown.....

Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens issued the following statement. 

 It's official.  Jackson Academy and the Voyles family will settle their feud behind closed doors.  

Forty people from 10 states boarded a bus in Jackson. Most of them, if you'd pressed them, probably figured Mississippi would be fine.

Retired Mississippi journalist Jim Abbott – a Greenwood native who served his country honorably in Vietnam – spent most of his adult life as the publisher and editor of a remarkable community newspaper in Indianola.

 You watch one vintage Van Halen clip and this is what the algorithm starts throwing up.  Warning: do not have a drink in your mouth. 

 JPD issued the following statement. 

 It appears someone got stupid in Pearl. 

 Nothing like exercising freedom of speech.  'Murica. 

"This is the age of the half-read page; the quick hash and the mad dash. The bright knight with the nerves tight; the plane hop and the brief stop. The lamp-tan in a brief span; the big shot in a good spot. The brain strain and the heart pain; the catnaps until the spring snaps...and the fun's done!" The late Dr. Frank Pollard used this anonymous poem to show the fun doesn't end when spring ends but begins with the resurrection.   Enjoy the short 1998 sermon posted below as he preaches as only he can.   

 “I certainly learned over the years that elections matter,” said Henry Barbour. The Yazoo City native, who spent 20 years as the Mississippi GOP’s voice on the Republican National Committee, was speaking to the North Jackson Rotary Club.

 Shipping times at the ABC warehouse are finally back to normal.  Read and weep. 

 Nothing like some good ole fashioned American ingenuity. 

 Leading stories this morning were Knicks beat Spurs 94 -90 to win their first Championship since 1973! Followed by President Trump announcing he had won another war and would be signing an agreement with Iran today (Sunday), although Iranian leaders don’t think so. Breaking news may still happen… sometime. Finally, some soccer teams beat some other soccer teams, and FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) teams in Groups A – L continue the long championship until Sunday, July 19, in East Rutherford, N.J., at 3:00 p.m. ET.  

This bit of lawyer porn is for the shysters hanging out in the bars of Amerigo, Char, and Koestler Prime right now. Enjoy.  

A Greene County woman found justice at the Mississippi Court of Appeals after her husband managed to obtain a divorce and favorable property settlement without her knowledge. You read that correctly.  A man submitted a petition for divorce while someone forged her signature on all documents submitted to the Court.  Did we mention she was never served?  Nevertheless, the Chancellor granted the divorce and ignored the wife when she claimed fraud.  

 A Starkville redneck FAFO'd this week when he went nuts on a man who dared take his two little girls into an empty women's bathroom at a QT gas station in Alabama.   

How much are people paying for cars? Read and weep.  Edmunds reported: 

When something new comes along, everyone suddenly has to have an opinion about it. Often the same one.

 A hearing was supposed to be heard in Voyles v. Jackson Academy et al in Hinds County Court yesterday.  

 Fell like snacking but want something different?  You are in luck as Chef ZeroBear PolyBear provided us with his recipe for zucchini, ham, and cheese rollups in a downloadable format.  Since you will probably be stuck inside because of the weather this weekend, here is something to pass the time.  

Is it the end for Moe's Southwest Grill in Jackson? 

 How did the Bridges allegedly embezzle so much money from the Jackson Area Federal Credit Union. Tis a question asked over and over in Jackson this week.  Fortunately, JJ obtained exclusive video of how the alleged scheme came to be.   

This week host Grant Callen takes a break from arguing about school choice, taxes, and whatever fresh foolishness emerged from the Capitol to talk about something a little more personal: why we keep repeating the same destructive patterns and then act surprised by the results.

His head "was in his hands crying like a baby."  Such were the crocodile tears shed in a courtroom in March before a judge set Seth Rokitka free after serving only a mere 21 months in jail after he ran over an Ole Miss student and killed him while permanently maiming his girlfriend.  The news of the release outraged many around Mississippi.  JJ obtained a copy of the court hearing transcript so readers can read the play by play on how this travesty of justice took place. 

 Special Circuit Judge Barry Ford realized he can't call a special election for Hinds County Supervisor after all.  

U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan, III set the rules of the battlefield for the public corruption trial of Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens, former Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, and former Jackson City Councilman Aaron Banks at a pre-trial conference hearing this week.  WLBT reported: 

 Well, someone doesn't appear too worried about the public corruption trial scheduled to take place next month in federal court. 

 The day before we opened The Downtowner in Gulfport, the leadership team and I sat around a table and just talked. Sports. The weather. Who has the best shrimp po-boy on the coast.

Once again, Mississippi’s highest court was asked to hold out for justice for a family murdered in 1990 in a hellish scene in their Walnut community home in rural Quitman County.

Hinds County District 2 Supervisor Tony Smith is taking his fight to keep his seat to the Mississippi Supreme Court.  Mr. Smith filed a notice of appeal today. 

 The Leigh Bridges scandal claimed another casualty.  Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney terminated Chad Bridge's employment today.  Bridges was the Director of Finance and Marketing at the Mississippi Insurance Department.  Comment in this morning's post. 

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

 Update: Bond set at $1 million for murder and $500,000 for each aggravated assault charge.  Total bond is $3.5 million. 

JPD issued the following statement. 

Dominos falling. Bodies piling up. Shoes dropping.  Such describes what happened in federal court yesterday when the National Credit Union Administration sued former Jackson Area Federal Credit Union Branch Manager Tina Funez for her role in (allegedly) helping her friend, former credit union president Leigh Bridges embezzle nearly $95 million. 

 

 The Justice Department wants to bar Jody Owens' expert witnesses from testifying in his trial next month.   

Governor Tate Reeves issued the following statement. 

 or the kids might be all right. 

Some kids are just born capitalist pigs.  

The city of Jackson's attorney caught the hallucinations bug up in Ridgeland as they got caught citing ordinances that simply did not exist.   

Many thanks to the readers who tipped JJ off to the Mississippi Magazine article yesterday. 

It is rare indeed when a con artist openly displays his wares but such happened some time ago right here in Mississippi.   Former Jackson Area Credit Union President Leigh Bridges and her husband Chad stand accused of embezzling tens and tens of millions of dollars so they could buy expensive homes, luxury jewelry, and even a Steinway piano.  Stealing (allegedly) $95 million is brazen.  Even more brazen is showing off the crime in where else but Mississippi Magazine.  Earlier post on alleged embezzlement.

 It was 1998.  The epidemic of school shootings had begun.  Horror spilled into a nation as children began murdering other children.  An emotional Dr. Frank Pollard took to the pulpit to deliver a rather penetrating sermon on how our poisonous culture created such monsters.   As garbage and poison fills the mind, so it fills the actions.  Watch Dr. Pollard's sermon posted below as he asks how we got here.  

 The Capitol Police issued the following statement yesterday. 

 The marbles and dirt memory captivated me. Perhaps something in these excerpts from an Informatify Facebook post will grab you too. 

 The former President of the Jackson Area Federal Credit Union did not just live high on the hog, she allegedly lived high off the whole pigsty.  The National Federal Credit Union Board accused Leigh Bridges and her husband Chad of looting the Jackson Area Federal Credit Union to the tune of $95 million in a lawsuit filed against the couple.  

 JPD issued the following statement. 

 I don’t remember celebrating June 6 growing up. I remember people talking about D-Day, and reminiscing about the allied invasion of western Europe on that date in 1944, but celebrating is not quite the right word for June 6 in history.  

For decades, America has been told that the key to better schools is more money. Underperformance, the argument runs, is really a question of resources. Just give the teacher unions what they ask for, and good outcomes will follow. Mississippi is starting to show that this simply is not true.

The feds peeled back the curtains ever so slightly in the Lumumba-Owens corruption case today.  The Justice Department filed a notice of intent to file self-authenticating records.  The records will include bank statements, credit card statements, and loan records.   The notice is posted below.  Chokwe Lumumba, Jody Owens, and Aaron Banks will go to trial on July 13. 

 Inclusion is now exclusion.  The state of New York is about to ban the words - get ready for this - "mother" and "father" from court documents.   Fox News reported: 

The ABC made some serious headway last week in reducing the backlog at its warehouse.   Check out the chart. 

 The city of Clinton issued the following statement. 

 It is summertime and summertime means working your garden.   ZeroBear Polybear provided a nice little recipe for garden veggies in a downloadable format that can be used when it's time to enjoy the fruits of your labor.

 One of Broadway's best is coming to New Orleans in October.  That's right.  The Lion King will run at the Saenger Theatre from October 21 to November 8.  Don't want to stay over night? No problem.  There are 1:00 shows on Sundays and 2:00 shows on Saturdays.  

 State Auditor Shad White lost his battle to recover $228,000 in unpaid interest from Brett Favre after the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled today only the Attorney General can sue to recover misspent funds.  

 Check out what our favorite squatters done did.  

Is there an honest lawyer in the house?  

Hallucinations are unfortunately becoming more common in Mississippi courtrooms.  Such is to be expected when attorneys only get slaps on the wrist when they submit bogus briefs.  How bad has hallucinating gotten? A federal judge in North Mississippi sanctioned the attorneys from both sides in a lawsuit.   You read that correctly.  The lawyers for the plaintiff and the defendant got caught submitting bogus citations to the Court.  You can't make this up.  

Duuuude

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

 The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation issued the following statement. 

 An accused child molester won't be going anywhere for awhile after a Jackson Municipal Court judge set his bond at $16 million. 

 The Justice Department wants to prosecute Jody Owens, Chokwe Lumumba, and Aaron Banks in Jackson.  Prosecutors stated in a motion filed today: 

 I'm not scared of failing. I'm scared of living a life that didn't matter.

 The Ohio School Employees Retirement System issued the following statement.