Jackson Jambalaya

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

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

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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.

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 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. 

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 JPD issued the following statement. 

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 It appears someone got stupid in Pearl. 

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Secretary of State Michael Watson issued the following statement. 

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 Nothing like exercising freedom of speech.  'Murica. 

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"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.   

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 “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.

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

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 Nothing like some good ole fashioned American ingenuity. 

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 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.  

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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.  

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 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.   

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

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

When crypto went mainstream, people who had never owned so much as a share were suddenly holding forth on bitcoin. When Ozempic arrived, people who had never once expressed a view on weight loss were just as eager to share the very same thoughts. Now it is AI’s turn. No conversation about it seems complete until someone has solemnly used the word “hallucination.”

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

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 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.  

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

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 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. 

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 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.   

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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.

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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. 

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

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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: 

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

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 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.

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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.

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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. 

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 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. 

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

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 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. 

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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. 

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

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Governor Tate Reeves issued the following statement. 

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 or the kids might be all right. 

Some kids are just born capitalist pigs.  

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

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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.

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 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.  

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 The Capitol Police issued the following statement yesterday. 

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

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 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.  

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 JPD issued the following statement. 

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 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.  

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 Jackson Jambalaya presents Windsor Ruins as never seen before. Many pictures have been taken of the famous Mississippi landmark but none from above.  JJ recently acquired a Yuneec Typhoon 500 drone with a 4k camera and made  a video of the ruins as the first project.  Photographer Rick Guy shot and edited the footage you see below.   The video is best seen in high definition.  Click on the wheel (settings) on the Youtube frame and select 720.  We hope you enjoy this presentation of Windsor Ruins. 

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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.

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