Jackson Jambalaya

Jackson's gonna Jackson.

Bus in the hole! That is what she said.

It can and will get worse.

That'll buff out! Don't even need to get out the bondo!

Only in Jackson, MS!! Jacktown is 1 pothole and 1 murder away from being a 3rd world country.

Perception of neglect.

No stupid trite comments from that fool Melvin C. Robinson on this?

Jackson, Mississippi - The gift that keeps on giving!

Need a consultant to study the problem and report back in a few years.

10:49 - ...at a cost of a million dollars.

I get tired of you Madison and Rankin County people always slamming Jackson. Come back and help your state capital instead of making snide remarks from the sidelines. Dig your heels in Jackson and work with us to bring it back.
Live in a neighborhood with big trees like Belhaven and Fondren instead of neighborhoods put up in cow pastures to accommodate all of the white flight.

@11:11 AM - have you tried a comfort dog? Safe space? Teddy bear? Xanax? Group hug? Turn in your man-card?

Isn't this the pot-hole that has its own zip code?

We need to get that guy in Holmes County to move to Jackson to take care of these holes in the road. We GOT to get em fixed!

Did you vote for Lumumba "Jacksonian"?

Kennuf’s coat should be large enough to cover it.

@Jacksonian,

Jackson deserves all the shit it gives. My brother used to live in Fondren when he was going to pharmacy school 3 years ago. In the year he lived on Meadow Heights his house was broken into twice. Once right before before Christmas and all the Christmas presents were stolen. Even had the TV ripped out of the wall off the studs. It's a shame too because the neighborhood pretty nice considering.

The two most important things that must happen before Jackson can even begin to consider a true recovery is crime must be suppressed and roads repaved.

The other thing that's keeping Jackson afloat is northeast Jackson. I dont know how much longer that will last with the country club closed and arguments over what is to replace it. Hopefully they'll try to replicate Renaissance at Colony Park and bring in some upscale business. Lord knows Jackson needs business.

@11:11, did you really just tell us to "dig [our] heels in Jackson" on a post about sinkholes?

We have the money, but our pothole fixer is broke. s/ Jackson Admin.

Let's be adults here: there is no "digging your heels in."

Like businesses, cities die when the world changes around them. You can show up to work every morning at K-Mart thinking, "By golly, I'm just gonna use a big smile and some elbow grease and make this place profitable."

But the market doesn't care. Your K-Mart is going out of business, just like all the other ones.

Jackson is worse than its competitors (Birmingham, Mobile, Little Rock) by a wide margin in every measurable way. People see that, they leave, and the death spiral accelerates.

"Digging your heels in" is like fighting the tide. You only end up drowned.

11:49, No one will spend any money on a quality business development in Jackson. I look for a low income Hud housing project to be build in that large area off of Old Canton road. That is the only money to be invested in North East Jackson.So Jackson is dead, dead and getting deader.

Together now: The wheels on the bus go...oh shit!!!

Hey Jacksonian, you have absolutely no stickin' idea how totally PISSED we are that you have taken over OUR hometown and completely destroyed it. Now you want us to come back and fix it. So, you openly admit your screw ups and you have no idea how to "overcome" your issues.

I recently drove through my old stomping grounds in South Jackson with my son. He began singing the theme song to the T.V. show Monk....It's a jungle out there.

@4:14

That's my gut feeling. I have heard from a source in an architectural firm in Jackson there was talk of the people who did Renaissance were in talks about doing what they already did in Ridgeland. However I am not sanguine about it happening. Also heard about putting in low rent apartments and I cant think of a more surefire way of immediately killing northeast Jackson. Fiancee who lives in the area says she thinks they wont do anything with it for another 10 years knowing Jackson leadership.

Hey Jacksonian......don't get your panties in a wad.

Failed/destroyed cites is just your typical democrat mode of operation. Get to be in power for a couple of decades, ruin everything about what use to be a viable city, then cry and play the race card and blame game on everyone, but yourself.

Look at Atlanta.....democrats took over the city and were ecstatic on having a major "black" city. Well as the city declined the blame game started. Now that whites are moving back and beginning to regain power and renew the city, you're crying the city is becoming too white and blackness is fading....there is just no satisfying you people. Make up your frik'n minds

Use imminent domain to take all residential property west of 55. Convert it to commercial, and hope that the residents end up in Bolton.

I agree completely. Jackson is a dysfunctional hell hole. Yet the last time I noticed there were no fences around the place and still people live there.

What kind of people would do such a thing?