Jackson Jambalaya

Southaven’s Mayor, Darren Musselwhite, is right.

Last week he told his aldermen that the data center development coming to his north Mississippi city carries national security implications. He called it patriotic. He pointed out that it will bring millions of dollars into the community, and he said it will rank among the most significant economic developments in DeSoto County’s history.

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 Did a Reservoir Patrol officer get out of line on a traffic stop? WLBT reported last night: 

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 Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey issued the following statements. 

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Someone got stupid in the Nolan Wells case.  A federal grand jury indicted Edward James Porter for interstate transmission of threatening communications.  In other words, Porter allegedly made death threats against the friends of Nolan Wells and their families.  

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D.A. to Mayor: "It's only four criminals."   

JJ published this post on April 11, 2015.  The video was one for the books as the District Attorney and Clinton Mayor went to war, face to face, in the Mayor's officer.  Good tv.  Get the popcorn and beer. 

Clinton Mayor Phil Fisher held a press conference this afternoon to discuss crimes allegedly committed by "career criminals" and their treatment by the Hinds County criminal justice system.  District Attorney Robert Schuler Smith showed up unannounced and was visibly angry at the press conference.  What started as a press conference turned into a showdown at the Clinton Corral. 

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 The Mississippi Insurance Department issued the following statement. 

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Remember when a Hinds County grand jury indicted Spencer Pittman for allegedly torching the Beth Israel Congregation? Well, it appears the case kind of, sort of, fell through the cracks.  

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The fight over Leigh Bridge's $2 million Sleepy Hollow home heated up in federal court yesterday. The National Credit Union Administration Board wants to have a trustee appointed over the home.  However, Bridges and her husband Chad said hell no in responses filed yesterday.   

The $2 million home with the Steinway

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 The city of Jackson issued the following statement. 

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Louisiana scored a major coup in the economic development wars.  Elon Musk announced SpaceX will build a spaceport in Vermillion Parish.  Why Vermillion Parish? Two words: Polar orbit. 

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It appears the last clawback lawsuit in the Lamar Adams case is finally wrapped up.  SEC Receiver ALysson Mills asked U.S. District Court Judge to approve a $6.5 million settlement agreement with the UPS Store and other defendants in a motion filed on August 20.  

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 Marvin Sanders issued the following statement. 

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It's late August so you know what that means. 

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The hemorrhaging from the Leigh Bridges scandal continues at the Jackson Area Federal Credit Union as it reported a $103 million loss in its July 31 call report.   

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Attorney General Lynn Fitch issued the following statement.

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Check out what has Skyhook and his crew of knuckleheads up in a tizzy: 

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WATERCOLOR, Fla.— The Florida Panhandle has known a lot of different versions of me over the past 60 years. It knew me as a little boy whose father had just died, as a young man who had lost his way, as a newly sober waiter dreaming of owning a restaurant, as a husband and father bringing his own family to the beach, and now as a man waiting for the next addition.

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The Supreme Court has been asked to weigh in on the question of whether the federal Census Bureau relied too heavily on “imputation” – a statistical method used to insert missing individuals into official population counts – in achieving results in the 2020 Census that resulted in undercounts in six states, including Mississippi.

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 Accused Beth Israel arsonist Spencer Pittman will undergo a psychiatric examination to see if he is mentally competent to stand trial. 

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 The Mississippi Department of Transportation issued the following statement. 

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 The late Dolly Parton came to Jackson a few times early in her career. Check out her promotions. 

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 We just lost a national treasure.  Dolly Parton passed away.  She was 80 years old. Dolly's nephew announced her death in a video posted on social media today.  

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 Hinds County District Attorney Brad McCullouch issued the following statement. 

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 Chad & Leigh Bridges split!

Justice is coming soon for Leigh Bridges. National Credit Union Administration Board Alysson Mills stated in a flurry of motions filed Friday that she expects Leigh will soon plead guilty to federal charges for fraud and embezzlement.  Bridges was the President of the Jackson Area Federal Credit Union but was terminated for allegedly embezzling tens of millions of dollars.  NCAUB filed a clawback lawsuit against Bridges and her husband Chad in U.S. District Court in May. 

The $2 million home with the Steinway

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 Damn. Mild-mannered sportscaster Sean McDonough pulled no punches when he talked about Ole Miss on The Brandon Walker Show yesterday.  Watch for yourself. 

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 An explorer from Pearl decided to on a a field trip at where else but the closed down Siwell Middle School. What did he find in the ruins of this civilization? 

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 Governor Tate Reeves issued the following statement. 

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JXN Water announced some good news and some bad news Friday.  The good news: The collection rate is standing tall and proud at 85% and operating revenue exceeded operating expenses for the first time since 2020.  The bad news is the utility is going to ask for a 10% rate hike in 2027.  

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It is joked you can't tell the players without a program.  What if it is impossible to update the program? 

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 The pathological liar known as Nancy Grace is at it again in the Nolan Wells case.   Russ Latino called her out on social media today: 

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 Golden but leaden, beautiful but corrupt.  A soothing voice he has but it is filled with deception as he seeks to lead many astray.  No cartoon character is the Devil but he is rather a force to be reckoned with in this world as he seeks to enslave and betray.  The late Dr. Frank Pollard spent a few minutes preaching about the old enemy in the 1998 sermon posted below.  See what he had to say.  Enjoy. 

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 Of the nation’s 4,640 colleges, universities, and certificate programs eligible for federal grants and loans, 1,930 or 42% could be at risk for failing to properly submit student outcomes data. Of 43 eligible in Mississippi, 16 or 37% may be at risk.

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 To build or not build a new library in downtown Jackson, tis a question debated by the Jackson City Council earlier this week.  WLBT reported Monday: 

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Two things can be true at once. Foreign entities have seeded the opposition to data center growth in the United States. China, in particular, through its control of TikTok and other influence outlets, has relentlessly worked to stop the American AI advantage against China. Also, at this point, much of the opposition is organic, bipartisan, and growing. Americans are deeply opposed to data centers. They are wrong and shortsighted, but my view is the minority view.

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 The American military and Ukraine recently engaged in war games featuring drones.  Simply put, we got our asses smoked.   The Wall Street Journal reported: 

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 Sometimes it’s good to review where we came from to appreciate where we are today. This past spring one of my students came into class shaking her head and complaining how bad things had become. I asked her what was going on, and she said gas prices were way too high. She was right, of course, but considering the context of where we were ten years earlier, things weren’t as bad as they seemed. 

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 Is this a surprise to anyone? 

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 There are certain modern hypocrisies I notice all the time.

People who complain about capitalism while living in the wealthiest capitalist countries on earth. Progressive activists in America who lament the lack of respect for individual freedom — seemingly unaware of how much of the rest of the world actually lives. People who use a smartphone to post about how much they hate Big Tech.

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 The field is set for the Hinds County District Attorney Election.  Read and weep. 

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 Hinds County Assistant District Attorney Gwendolyn Agho issued the following statement. 

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 Hinds County District Attorney Bradley McCullouch issued the following statement yesterday. 

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 Tired of taking the same casseroles to your church's covered dish suppers?  Check out ZeroBear PolyBear's recipe for Ruben Casserole.   Get out of your comfort zone and try something new.  The recipe is posted below in a downloadable format. 

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 The Mississippi Supreme Court upheld the conviction and sentence of Carly Gregg. 

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 This is why ambulances won't respond to a call without police escort.  

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 756 phone calls. 158 hours.  Breach of a suppression order.  Such describes the communications between disgraced paralegal Darra Woolman and Mississippi Today's star reporter, Anna Wolfe.  The phone logs arose in the latest showdown between former Governor Phil Bryant and the digital newspaper in Madison County Circuit Court last week.  

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Rep. Celeste Hurst stopped by the Empower Podcast this week to talk about something politicians generally aren't very good at admitting: sometimes helping people actually makes things worse.

Hurst has spent years doing ministry in South Jackson, opening her home to children and families in crisis, and learning firsthand that writing a check is a whole lot easier than actually helping someone change his/her life.

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 Yours truly will be subbing for KIM Waaaaaade on WYAB today at 4:07.  The show will be blessed with some right-wing royalty as The American Spectator's Scott McKay will be the guest.  Tune in on 103.9 or stream online at WYAB.com. 

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