Jackson Jambalaya

I reckon the august leadership in Jackson would say he's "unhoused."

Which begs the question, would dropping off "unhoused persons" in Jackson be permitted?

Will Jackson enforce the ordinance as aggressively as they've enforced the one prohibiting parking on lawns?

No pillow for his head.

Looks like a body bag.

These people are, to one degree or another, mentally ill. They need help, and a safe, warm place to sleep.

I'd say the majority are druggies.

After observation of our homeless friends downtown every day for the last 15 years, 99% are on drugs or mentally unstable.

Check out his shoelaces. Someone has tied them together. Magnify the picture and you can see Tate Reeves entering the mansion. Hum!

I remember when they were called bums, hobos, junkies and winos, then some liberal democrat had the genius idea to call them "homeless" and blame Reagan. Homeless sounded so innocuous and sad. Now when you say homeless they associate the word with what they really are bums, hobos, junkies and winos, so they had to come up with a new term: unhoused. What's next shelter deficient?

@3:55 And you'd be 100% correct. Take a look at the crew that begs on Lakeland. They are well fed. They want your money so they can get some dope. It has to stop.

It doesn’t surprise me one bit that Rankin and Madison counties are dropping off their homeless in Jackson. Just like most of these people that illegally dump trash in Jackson are from Rankin county.

In the local news article it was clearly stated that the "unhoused," the woke version of "homeless," come to Jackson because the bennies are much greater than their town.

Feed them, cloth them, bath them, house them, and they will come. Duh.

@4:14pm this is just an outright lie, and I'm a Jacksonian. There is no coordinated effort by the suburbs to pawn vagrants off on Jackson.

Another ordinance that will never be enforced. Why bother?

There is no reason to publish he went to JA, ‘fish!

Every resource available to the homeless is downtown. Where do you think they want to go? If you don’t like the homeless create an ordinance that you can’t feed them downtown. If you feed stray cats you get stray cats. Take it up with shower power, Galloway, Stewpot, etc etc etc

Every state legislature needs to address the homeless/mentally damaged population in their respective states. That was the reasoning behind the federal government stopping funding for sanitariums and asylums. As for the city council, don't they have more important things to worry about? Like maybe crime, infrastructure, potholes, and economic development?

What’s striking about the 4:03 comment and Kingfish’s silence isn’t cleverness or insight, it’s the moral vacancy. This whole posture of “no comment” while winking at cruelty is the oldest trick in the book. Pretend neutrality while cheering degradation from the shadows. That’s not journalism or commentary, it’s abdication dressed up as sophistication.

There’s something profoundly Satanic about this mindset, not in a Halloween sense, but in the classic way: inversion of values. Wrong is treated as savvy, cruelty as realism, and accountability as naïveté. Say nothing, imply everything, and let the worst impulses do the work for you. It’s temptation without ownership, accusation without responsibility.

If you actually believed in what’s being implied, you’d say it plainly and defend it. Instead we get the coward’s refuge of smug ambiguity, which corrodes trust and poisons discourse while pretending to be above the mess. That isn’t insight. It’s moral laziness, and it deserves to be called out for exactly what it is.

Also in the background is the look on Andrew Jackson's face.
I'm sure he's wondering: "why haven't they moved me yet ? ...
take my name off this town".

He's not bothering a soul. The real horror in that picture, is the hideous 'Sixties Contemporary' "fountain" (also known as 'Cow College Traditional', since landscape architects trained at Cow Colleges think they're "doing Traditional", when they're churning-out their ugly messes), in glaring white, looking for all the world, like a brobdingnagian URINAL (with Choctaw-murdering Andrew Jackson, hand-on-hip, taking a whizz into it).

While we're all charmed by the scene in 'Madea's Witness Protection' where Madea's brother is trying to assess his possible son's critical dimension, by demonstrating his own stance at urinals, it's less charming to see a public monument doing it.

At the very least, can the new mayoral (or as Gwendolyn Chapman would say it, "mayoritorial") administration return that vast empty fountain to some muted, fleeting color - a deep grey-green Slate color, maybe?

Against a dark, muted background, the empty fountain's sleeping homeless would be far less conspicuous.

Would this apply to those that drop the bums off to panhandle on 55? The people doing that are most definitely not law enforcement from other cities.

Residence Challenged

How do you make it illegal for someone to travel to your city? If they can outlaw transporting homeless to Jackson can we please make it illegal for Jacksonians to come to Rankin and Madison?

Until Hartley condemns DJP for working to shift the population and problem into the surrounding downtown neighborhoods, his is an unserious effort only meant to generate PR for himself and to make it look like he's trying to do something.

By all means lets also move all of the other social panhandling non-profits out of Jackson since all they do is exacerbate the state of grievance affairs in our Capitol City.

Does this include the bus station?

How does Jackson think it’s going to enforce a city ordinance against neighboring municipalities? I suppose if they catch someone in the act of dropping off a bum, they could arrest them. If they just issue a ticket, or try to fine a neighboring city, what’s to stop the neighboring city from just saying “go f- yourself”? Jackson could file a civil suit, but what would the claim be? What common law tort encompasses dropping off bums in another city?

Blame the feds and the Supreme Court for the homeless problem. If not for banning asylums, there’d be a place to send these people where they can get help and not degrade our city and harass productive citizens.

Jackson is the best place for them. Theirs more resources in downtown Jackson.

Isn’t that a Hinds County juror?

I'll vote yes for that.

I went to Biloxi last week and on Hwy 90 by the lighthouse were rows & rows of Bums, Hobo's & Drifter sitting on all the benches on the beach watching the waves lap upon the sands. Hell, It was like a Hobo, Bum, Drifter convention. You can't make this stuff up.

Firsthand knowledge: the mental health beds available in Jackson have an astronomical recidivism rate due to the homeless….they know when the weather gets bad all they have to do is present to an emergency room and say the magic words “ I feel like I’m going to hurt myself and they, due to liability issues, will be transported to a mental health facility where they will be warm, bedded and fed. It would be an interesting study to access census data from local inpatient mental health facilities and compare how many times the same names appear. Of course HIPPA regs would prevent any journalist from being able to investigate that………with the insurance provided by the AHCA the facilities have no incentive to address these repeat admissions…..

I remember about 30 years ago when there was a large weeping willow tree at the edge of the beach in Biloxi. The limbs hung down to the ground. Underneath the beach had been dug out and it was a shelter for the homeless. There was one entrance that could not be seen from the beach. The homeless would live there and spent their time looking out and drinking beer on the people on the beach. They could not be seen.

Yet here you are.

403 is right
i never heard the word''homeless'' till reagan got in the whitehouse.
up to that point they called them what they were.

they all junkies. they dont go to the homeless shelters cause the shelters won't let them bring in their drugs.

8:05 PM Are you sure those weren't tourist watching the waves.

Getti,ng dropped off in Jackson Ha. They are coming to Jackson one way or the other. They are tolerated here, they are fed here, they are allowed to bum here. Getting dropped of is a smoke screen, the Kansas City shuffle. Stop feeding the strays and they go away. Is there an adult in city hall left?

Is this going to be based on their catch and release, to be repeat offenders?

5:18 did you really need AI to write a one paragraph comment expressing how hard you clutch your pearls?

@5:18 Come up with your own thoughts instead of using ChatGPT to write your moral critique.

What a joke. So someone is arrested for this misdemeanor and demands a trial. The vagrant/hobo/low-life/homeless/unhoused person will have to testify, but where is he? Case dismissed.

Ashby Foote wanted a $100,000 fine when state law limits misdemeanors to $1,000. Bwa, ha, ha.

junkies or homeless

recall the old saying ''it aint the steak.......its the sizzle''

well, junkies are the steak

and homeless is the sizzle.

the radical left, that blames everyone but the person involved, are very good at packaging and rebranding

I'm the one who called them bums, hobos, junkies and winos and there is nothing ambiguous about what I said. The vast majority are on the street because of their addictions and repeated bad choices. I bet your moral high ground would be vacated instantly the moment someone would suggest letting one of these folks move in with you.

Feb. 10, 4:02 pm - You don't get to Jackson much, do you?

More deflection by city government. Jackson is a homeless magnet because of all of the free stuff - clothes, showers, food, etc. etc. There are web sites where the low-lifes can find the best cities for free stuff. Build it and they will come.

Maybe Foote will let them stay in one of his spare bedrooms. Put up or shut up!

Well...now the mentally ill and early stage alcoholics and drug addicts can't easily be involuntarily committed without racking up legal expenses. These are the people who have run out of money and family financial support or lacked both. Some have left their hometowns for fear of being institutionalized and their families don't know where they are. They have no one to supervised taking the medications they may need. Some states have closed mental institutions and the ones that remain are revolving doors.

5:37
The masonry backdropping the snoozing hobo on the bench is indeed a glaring, tasteless abomination (I have always found it offensive) and 18" X 18" blue-gray-green quartzite paving, a dull ochre stucco with old brick walls would soften the mess there now. However the wino is perfectly attired for his time and place. Perhaps do like Paris and teach him to play an accordion to get tips to live on. Zydeco is my preference.

I thought that was Ex-Mayor Lumumba for a moment. My apologies to the homeless community.

Every US local government needs to study up on FDR's public works project. Fix the potholes in Jackson while empowering people to lift themselves up.

Yet people still can’t comprehend that simple concept. Stop providing services for them and they will leave. Especially addicts, they never go without their drug of choice. Somehow, they always got money for that stuff but depend on handouts for everything else.

The Democratic Party has now gone completely upside down! It’s amazing to me that these city council members are all voting to enact or uphold laws against the homeless people, but do not have the common sense to see that the members of their party (yes, the radical left) are screaming out against laws already in effect to keep illegals (yes, homeless) from entering across our borders and trying to keep the ones already here. As the saying goes, they are completely bass-backwards and have lost their way!!

Good luck with the notion of fining people for transporting others to our capital city. People are bumming rides to Jackson every day.

As to 5:18's copy and paste which speaks to 'inversion of values' - Whose values? Yours, mine, the writing prowess of (your friend) artificial intelligence?