Jackson Jambalaya

Guess he'll keep his little BAD ASS at home now.

10:20, you are incorrect. Now he has street cred because he has been shot.

How unfortunate it is that children this young get caught up in such violence, even if he was a bystander...But this is the City of Jackson, which is coming soon to a location near you.

Welcome to the wild, wild, west!

Black lives matter...but to who?

People, pull it together. Legitimate local news is posted here and all you do is showcase your racism? Don't embarrass our community any more.

10:51: It is not racist to ask when BLM and their contacts at CNN, MSNBC, NPR, etc, will raise this to the nation's attention.

But who decides what need is worth posting, and why?

This shooting occurred in a section of Jackson that no readers of this blog would ever frequent, among people you are unlikely to ever meet. It's as useless as posting about murders in Russia or Bosnia, because it will have no impact on your daily life.

So why post it here? What value does it add?

So Pit...I’m not allowed to read about or have concerns about murders in my state, if I don’t frequent the part of town that they occur in?
Got it.
Just want to make sure I’m current and compliant, with the ever changing politically correct mob law.

Pitt might be surprised at how many readers this site has in West Jackson.

But who decides what need is worth posting, and why?

The owner of the business for whatever reason(s) he sees fit.

The product is free so it is extremely easy to choose another venue more suited to your personal taste.

Several years ago I lived on Arbor Hill Drive.
It was a dump then and was still going down hill.
I had the good sense to get the hell out of there and out of Jackson completely.
Really it isn't much different than any other area in Jackson.
Is there a nice spot in a sewer?

Pittpanther is some kind of intrepid moron.

It happened in Jackson, MS.

And just to show how ignorant the comment is: I spent 20 years living in a house about 3 doors down from where this happened.

My question is who gets to decide what Pittpanther tries to post and why? His posts are as useless as posting about hot women in Russia or.. well anywhere, because it will have no impact on his daily life.

So, Pittpanther, why post here? What value does it add?

1:23, I hope you realize if you moved anywhere in Mississippi that you are still in the sewer. This is one of the most backward states in the U.S. Mississippi is at the top of every bad list and the bottom of every good list. OMG, Mississippi passed a law that pretty much said since I'm Baptist and don't agree with the Mormons about caffeine, that I don't have to sell or serve them anything. So don't go thinking that you have moved to some great perfect metropolis. You are still in Mississippi with the rest of us, and that makes you laughable to the citizens of every other state with the exception of maybe Alabama. So get off your high horse and sniff the manure around your new community.

5:29: Yes, HB 1523, now law, remains an embarrassment to us all in this State, and an impediment to our economy. What HR department would risk letting their plant or office move here now if their employees are not all Pentecostals or Baptists?

... and an impediment to our economy ...

Prove it.

7:52. We're still last aren't we?

I think Pitt Panther = KF. Click bait.

Yes KF, if the number of readers of this blog from West Jackson is above zero, I would be surprised. Certainly they're not demonstrated in the comments, which all seem to be from pissed off ex Jackson residents who now live in the burbs, and bemoan the loss of "their" city.

7:52- prove it? It has been proven by the fact that Mississippi is at the bottom of every major economic indicator list, and has been for decades. This, despite all the good ol' Republican pro-business law & policies that have been enacted during that period, including this trash legislation. Prove that the Religious Freedom Bill is an impediment to Mississippi's economy? It's just another law, passed on top of every other terrible law, that an objective business owner looking at states competing for his/her business can observe to see how poorly educated even the best among Mississippians are.

By way of example, consider that Mississippi didn't even take a legitimate swing at the Amazon HQ bid while nearly every other state did, no matter how unlikely. On top of the fact that the state refuses to fund education for its future workforce and has an openly racist state flag that is offensive to 60-70% of its population, I am sure that Jeff Bezos would die of laughter if a state that encodes religious freedoms to discriminate made a play to gain his investment.

I was born in Jackson to a proud Mississippi family and grew up there. I left after graduate school so that I could enjoy economic opportunity in my field. However, the unintended consequence of moving was the discovery that other people in states around the country aren't as generally ignorant, closed-minded and hateful as they are in the "Hospitality State." Now, more than ever, Mississippi is an afterthought at best and a joke at worst.

I hope that you're middle-age or older so that you can enjoy without interruption the ever-shrinking wealth, intellectual diversity, and relevance of Mississippi before it's totally gone. I also hope you don't have children. But If you do and they are young, you're leaving them a kingdom of rust. Congratulations. May God have mercy on your soul.

Bottom line, you can't demonstrate any measurable economic loss from HB 1523.