The Jackson Zoo issued the following statement.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Zoo's Giraffe & Leopard die
Ex-Mayor introduces punk to the Board of Education (Updated)
Former Jackson Mayor Tony Yarber caught a punk trying to break into his car. Mr. Yarber introduced our little hoodlum to some child-rearin' on the rear:
Employees + credit cards = trouble?
Purchases at jewelry stores, trips to swanky beach resorts, $1,000 bbq meals, clothes, and steak dinners populate the credit card bills of Canton Municipal Utilities employees. Cleaning bills, coffee, quick trips to fast food joints - no purchase was too small or too trivial for the favored few to pay with a CMU credit card.
Monday, October 30, 2017
Burroughs indicted in death of girlfriend
This article is reprinted with permission of the Laurel Leader Call.
Greg Burroughs will have to answer in a criminal court for the death of 23-year-old Katherine Sinclair, who died from a gunshot to the head in the garage of his half-million-dollar home on the night of June 1.
Police will be escorted at UMMC
The University of Mississippi Medical Center will no longer allow law enforcement officers to enter areas past the emergency room office unless permitted by UMMC police. UMMC police officers must accompany the law enforcement officer to all areas of the hospital he visits. All UMMC police officers were required to sign the order that defined the new policy.
JPS: By the numbers
Check out the employee roster for Jackson Public Schools. JJ obtained them through a public records request and is analyzing them for a post that will be published later this week. However, JJ thought the readers might want to have a sneak peek at the raw data.
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Boil water notice for Ridgewood area
The city of Jackson issued the following boil water notice for the area by Ridgewood Road and East County Line Road.
Bookkeeper indicted in church embezzlement
Broadmoor Baptist Church is not the only church in the Jackson area to suffer from an embarrassing embezzlement of hundreds of thousands of dollars. A Hinds County grand jury indicted a former employee in February for allegedly embezzling slightly more than $250,000 over a period of five years. The indictment states:
RSS tries to bar cameras from trial
Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith wants to ban all cameras from his upcoming trial in Rankin County. The Attorney General is prosecuting the District Attorney on two separate indictments for simple domestic violence, aggravated stalking, and robbery. The two sides are also warring over whether testimony about alleged repeated incidents of domestic violence and drug use can be admitted as well.
"How to be wicked without really trying"
It's time for the Sunday morning sermon. Enjoy the late Dr. Frank Pollard's preaching in this 1987 sermon, Going to hell by default. This is one of his better sermons.
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Bill Crawford: What political donors expect for $$$
Steve Bannon recently met with mega Republican political contributor Bernie Marcus
and heard him complain "for hours about the lack of return on his
investment," reported Politico.com,
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Friday, October 27, 2017
Tic-toc, tic-toc
The city of Jackson has not provided a copy of roof inspection reports for the Eudora Welty Library to JJ.
JJ submitted a public records request to the city of Jackson on October 8. The request asked
Mother lost baby over unpaid court fees
The MacArthur Justice Center in Oxford issued the following statement.
Waffle House robbed but JPD gets 'em.
Update: Suspect is Nicholas Thames. 20 years-old.
JPD issued the following press release.
Thursday, October 26, 2017
MDE to JPS: So?
The Mississippi Department of Education issued the following statement.
GOP elects Lucien Smith Chairman
The Mississippi Republican Party issued the following statement.
The "Radical Mayor & Conservative Governor" work together to form Coalition
*All JPS School Board members resigned. Dr. Fredderick Murray remains as Interim Superintendent.
Governor Phil Bryant and Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba issued the following statement.
Nursing home shooter caught.
Update: Johnson is being held without bond and will have an initial appearance this morning in Ridgeland Municipal Court.
The Ridgeland Police Department issued the following statement and picture.
Medicaid tries to award a nice no-bid contract.
Governor Phil Bryant ordered the Division of Medicaid last June to cancel a $23 million health care information technology contract no-bid contract that it was going to award to Cerner Corporation.
JMAA issues RFP for Hawkins Field projects
The Jackson Municipal Airport Authority issued the following Requests for Proposals.
Wobbling away
The Governor is thinking. WLBT reported that Governor is still looking for a "third way" instead of just approving a MDE takeover of Jackson Public Schools:
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
$332,000 embezzled. (Updated)
Broadmoor Baptist Church issued the following statement.
The past is not dead
The old adage that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it may hold true yet again in Mississippi politics. Speculation ran rampant in Mississippi over who might replace Senator Thad Cochran if his health forced him to resign. Supporters of a certain state senator from Ellisville loudly proclaimed to all that Governor Bryant should appoint him if the Senator indeed resigned. However, they might want to heed what took place in Mississippi politics thirty years ago.
Monitor: Sheriff spends jail money elsewhere even though jail is short-handed.
A Justice Department report states that Hinds County Sheriff Victor Mason is spending money budgeted for the Hinds County detention centers on other departments even though the Raymond detention center is severely short-staffed. The report was submitted to U.S. District Court Judge John Gargiulo in August as part of a consent decree over the operation of the three Hinds County detention centers between the Justice Department and Hinds County.
Broadmoor Baptist suffers embezzlement
An employee of Broadmoor Baptist Church embezzled from the church.
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
They said not a word.
The perfumed princes of Hinds County, oops, I meant the Hinds County Democratic Delegation of the Mississippi Legislature wailed to the heavens while gnashing their teeth in a letter that protested any state takeover of Jackson Public Schools . It is not known if they rent their garments although it is almost a certainty they were covered in ash.
Monday, October 23, 2017
Eudora Welty library flunked leak tests in 2015. Was anything fixed?
The Eudora Welty Library flunked seven of twelve areas of a field test for water leakage in 2015. The Jackson-Hinds Library System hired a Florida company in to determine why the structure was plagued by water leaks. Building Leakage Investigation & Testing (BLIT) reported that the roof membrane did not cover the entire structure, sealant was improperly applied all too often, water damage was causing the mortar to disintegrate, and a host of other problems. The report is posted below.
MDE changes its ways
The Mississippi Department of Education has caught no small amount of grief from this website, the PEER Committee, and the State Auditor over how contracts are passed out to the favored few. Chief Operations Officer Dr. Felicia Gavin announced changes to how MDE does business in the following statement:
If it's not nailed down......
This is one of the more um, interesting burglaries that has taken place in Jackson in a while. JPD issued the following statement and video:
Sunday, October 22, 2017
Food Fight!!!
Apparently you clowns want to have a discussion on last week's blow-up between White House Chief of Staff and former Marine Corps General John Kelly and Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) over a phone call to a Gold Star family. The video of General Kelly's comments are posted below. There were multiple attempts to hijack threads over the weekend so this post is just for you. Have at it in the comments.
College-town bars busted for selling booze to minors
Attorney General Jim Hood issued the following statement.
Learning to have confidence
If you can't make it to church this morning, enjoy this sermon presented by the late Dr. Frank Pollard.
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Huge freeze for Allen Smith's verdicts continues.
Ridgeland attorney Allen Smith, Jr. is suffering worse luck than a Mississippi State kicker in an Egg Bowl. A Los Angeles judge reversed yet another huge talcom powder jury award for Mr. Smith and his clients. Bloomberg reported today:
Bill Crawford: Who is a real conservative?
Lots of political yammer about who’s a real conservative and who’s not.
So, how do you tell?
Friday, October 20, 2017
Flashback Friday
Enjoy this 1970 clip of the LSU-Ole Miss game. It's pretty interesting to watch.
You can't be serious.
Check out the latest rumor about Senator Thad Cochran. Erick Erickson posted this on his website:
Volunteers needed for Boo at the Zoo
Whether you can help set up or take down, greet guests, tell fortunes, assist trick or treaters through the park, help at a candy booth, scare ages 8 and up in the AAZK Haunted House, park cars, run supplies, or just have a special skill when it comes to events, the Jackson Zoo could use someone like you! Contact info for volunteers:
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Phil, this is no time to go wobbly.
"Remember George, this is no time to go wobbly"
What Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said to President George Bush
Governor Phil Bryant is channeling his inner Tito and trying to find a "third way" in handling the takeover of Jackson Public Schools. The AP reported yesterday:
Allen Smith's luck goes cold. Court reverses $72 million verdict.
A Missouri appeals court showed Ridgeland attorney Allen Smith, Jr. another reversal of a huge jury award in his talc powder jihad. Mr. Smith racked up an impressive series of wins in lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson in St. Louis over products liability claims involving talc powder. However, the U.S. Supreme Court threw a huge freeze over his success in one day. Reuters reported in June:
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Haley hustled? Stion closing.
Yet another one of Haley Barbour's green energy projects failed. Stion announced it will close its Hattiesburg plant. Greentech Media reported:
Pearl & Canton rise, Rankin slips, JPS crashes.
Read 'em and weep. Today is the day for tears of joy and gnashing of teeth in Mississippi public schools. The Mississippi Department of Education released its school ratings for the 2016-2017 school year. Pearl and Canton rose, Rankin County slipped, and the rest of the Jackson metro area schools stayed the same as last year.
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: 2017 Mississippi public school ratings
The Mississippi Department of Education issued the following press release.
The Cool Kids are back
The Cool Kids are back this week. Y'all Politics published its list of the "Top 50 Influential People in Mississippi" and even had a fancy shindig for the winners earlier this week. See the list. Not to be outdone, the Clarion-Ledger, actually Jimmie Gates published his list of the top politicos under the age of 35. Since it is hidden behind a paywall, here is the list.
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