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 Bayou Academy (Cleveland) issued the following letter to parents. 

One of the most popular categories of wines in the last two years is the nearly ubiquitous blended red wine, which is so popular that it has become synonymous with everyday drinking for millions of Americans.

 It is a sad day in the Jackson metro area.  Boondocks announced on Facebook: 

 A disgruntled employee shot out two windows at Sal and Mookies in Jackson this morning.  JPD arrived within three minutes of receiving the emergency call and caught the man before he left the premises. Thankfully, no one was hurt. 

Update: Owner Jeff Good addressed the incident in a Facebook video that is posted below. 

 Some gentlemen at Germantown High School engaged in a little debate recently.  Although the arguements did not reach the heights explored by Cicero, there was no lack of motivation among the participants.

 Marlon Walker said enough is enough and said see ya to the Clarion-Ledger.  The Executive Editor of the "state newspaper" moved to the Marshall Project after only nine months in the job. The Marshall Project announced: 

 Our favorite commie comedian, Jimmy Dore, had a bit of fun with Neil Young.  Can't say the rusted hypocrite didn't deserve it.  Things get a little interesting at 4:30.  Nothing like seeing someone catching hell for his own side. Enjoy. 

JPD caught more alleged carjackers yesterday. Good work. 

The late Dr. Frank Pollard discussed learning from failure in this 1993 sermon.  As a bonus, he took on the Bible-thumpers as well.  If you can't make it to church, enjoy the sermon.  

 Welcome to the looooove boat, M’issippi style!

A woman posted this message on social media today.  Watch your surroundings. 

 Look who popped up in jail today.  Check out their ages.  It's all a game.  Wonder if these suspects are some of the Stones.

 Parents teach their children: You make a mess, you clean it up.

    Twenty years ago, the United States government transformed its naval base at Guantanamo Bay into a legal, moral and foreign-policy disaster. It's time for President Joe Biden to fulfill his promise to complete the task his predecessors didn't have the wisdom or desire to do: close America's gulag.

 Check out what appeared on the agenda for next week's meeting of the Jackson City Council: 

 JPD issued the following statement. 

The list of indictments against the News continues to grow.  A Hinds County grand jury returned a 46-count indictment against Nancy New and her son Zach on January 13.   The charges include bribery, conspiracy, embezzlement, fraud, forgery, and racketeering.  The grand jury indicted the News two years ago for embezzlement, conspiracy, and making fraudulent statements.

 Annie Oeth authored the following essay for UMC. 

When Nolee Jones grows up, she wants to be a registered nurse, perhaps caring for children who started life as she did, with a congenital heart condition.

Nolee, whose heart was mended by surgeons at Children’s of Mississippi, is the state’s 2022 Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Champion. The 8-year-old from Pearl stays healthy by seeing her cardiologist at the Children’s Heart Center at the state’s only children’s hospital. 

 

The EPA issued the following statement.  The press release is rather long so the part applicable to Jackson has been highlighted in red text for the reader's convenience.  

 SNL had quite a bit of fun at the expense of the new New York Mayor although one can argue the Mayor asked for it. Enjoy.

 A brawl broke out at Germantown Middle School last week.  The video posted below shows at least six students engaged in fisticuffs while their shocked classmates watched.

 A former MDE Executive Director just keeps getting in trouble.  A federal grand jury indicted Cerissa Neal in August 2021 for trying to fraudulently obtain a PPP loan.   This is the second time Neal has been indicted for fraud in less than two years. 

 The Mississippi Department of Human Services issued the following statement. 

If you thought the downtown shootout that took place yesterday was bad, check out this little incident from Elysian Fields during afternoon rush hour Monday. 

 This article originally appeared on The Taxpayers Channel website. 

On January 24, UMB Bank filed new papers in the personal bankruptcy case of John Coleman, the president of Express Grain, which is also in bankruptcy.

In these new papers, UMB Bank alleges that Coleman filed numerous falsified reports to UMB Bank indicating repeatedly that EG owned more beans than it actually did, counting beans sold to others as EG's property, for purposes of obtained credit from UMB Bank that it was not entitled to under their loan agreement.

UMB Bank also discloses, for the first time, that the audit report provided to UMB Bank by John Coleman and Express Grain differed substantially from what Horne LLP, the company's auditors, had prepared and provided to Express Grain.

Recipe inspiration comes from many places. In the early days of our first restaurant, I ended up in the kitchen after our opening chef was fired on the first night. The extent of my cooking ability at that time was that I had asked for, and received, and Easy Bake Oven for Christmas.

 Local TV stations, cable providers, and companies selling satellite or dish technologies – not to mention the major television news and entertainment networks – are increasingly staggering under the rise of competition from new and potent digital news and entertainment competitors.

 JPD issued the following statement. 

 The husband of former Miss Mississippi Christine Kozlowski Hand was murdered last weekned.  WSFA reported:

 The SNL crew was actually funny last weekend as they nailed some of our favorite ESPN loudmouths. 

 This week, after spending time vacationing in the disease-ridden hellscape known as Florida, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., came down with COVID-19. It was a tragic blow to the irrepressible Instagram star, who was forced to quarantine. But then, like an extraordinarily inaniloquent phoenix rising from the ashes of the dread omicron variant, she returned to her web audience with a message for the ages. 

There was a drive-by shooting that took place in downtown Jackson. A man in another vehicle shot up an Infiniti vehicle near High Street, wounding the male driver and female passenger. The Infinit came to a stop at the intersection of Capitol and Lamar streets. Witnesses said there were bullet holes in the windshield.  Pictures of the crime scene and victim are posted below.  More information will be posted when available.

 OSHA will withdraw the vaccine mandate tomorrow.

 Frank Corder authored this column on Y'all Politics.  It is reprinted with the site's permission.

The issue of whether a state elected official should be able to draw on their retirement and receive a state salary as required by law has raised its head once again.

 The Jackson City Council will discuss yet again the garbage contract.  The agenda states: 

Apparently a legislator thinks a law doesn't apply to him or her.  

 I renamed it the "unhappy hour," even though the thought was appreciated.

    The hotel put out two wines at 4 p.m. in its lobby, a white and a red. A sign invited guests to help themselves. Ignoring that the wine wasn't exciting, I nonetheless poured two glasses and we sat on a couch.

    Then I noticed what most other hotel guests never would have: the smells. 

 The Mississippi Hospitality & Restaurant Association issued the following press release. 

UMC issued the following statement. 

 110 Delta farmers have had enough and asked a bankruptcy judge to dissolve Express Grain Friday.  The Greenwood grain elevator is currently in chapter 11 bankruptcy.   The farmers shipped their harvests to Express Grain last fall but were never paid for their crops. 

 The city of Jackson issued the following statement. 

 The Black Caucus of the Mississippi Senate walked out during the voter over a bill that supposedly banned Mississippi schools from teaching critical race theory.  Was the walkout justified? Check out SB #2113.  It is posted below.

 The city of Jackson issued the following statement. 

 If you overslept and missed church, enjoy this 1993 sermon presented by the late Dr. Frank Pollard of First Baptist Church (Jackson). 

It seemed appropriate to honor Meatloaf's passing in this fashion.

 Once upon a time the late Orley Hood was just a sports writer. Back in 1976 when he would head to Delta State to cover basketball, I would drive over from Charleston where I was a weekly newspaper editor to enjoy his company and watch the games. When there was room, he would let me sit by him at the scorer’s table where I would sort of keep unofficial stats.

Brace yourself for some new terms: negative vaccine efficacy and immune fatigue. Yes, both terms are very relevant to the latest COVID data. 

The Lumumba administration still has not produced the 2020 comprehensive annual financial report even though it was due June 30.  

 Don't drive through Brookside, Alabama if you want to avoid getting a ticket or having your vehicle towed.  The town has become a poster child for tickets traps.  How bad is Brookside? Brookside is so bad that even the Sheriff and District Attorney said it goes too far.  The Birmingham News reported: 

 "We know where they are," Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said in March 2003 about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. "They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." We found nothing. Rumsfeld knew nothing. A year after the invasion, most voters believed the Bush administration had lied America into war. 

 Well, well, well, this video is pretty interesting.   The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks August 2020 Board meeting included a discussion of the quarantine  of high-fence enclosures for deer. What is interesting is the enclosures belonged to Brett Favre and Flowood Mayor Gary Rhoads. Check it out. 

 The Ridgeland Police Department issued the following statement. 

 The Justice Department issued the following statement. 

Rankin County issued the following statement. 

 The Primos family sold the restaurants.  WLBT reports:

 A Raymond homeowner was wounded during an attempted robbery today.  WJTV reported:

Express Grain submitted phony audits to state. 

Express Grain Terminals, LLC continued Mississippi's grand literary history of creative writing as it submitted rather creative financial statements to the Mississippi Department of Agriculture & Commerce when it renewed its grain warehouse licenses.  Phony logos were used, losses were understated by $20 million, and warnings of impending doom were just plain erased.  Both the accurate and fraudulent audits are posted below.  

 A Hinds County grand jury returned an additional 46-count indictment against Nancy New and her son, Zachary.  There is no record of a new indictment against the News.  However, Hinds County Circuit Judge Faye Peterson stated in her order of continuance issued yesterday: 

 Yet another shootout took place in Jackson this afternoon.  

State Auditor Shad White issued the following statement. 

 Thomas showed up yet again on the KIM Waaaaaaaade radio show.  You know what that means.  Enjoy. 

 The Express Grain fiasco continues to mushroom as the company reported additional debt in the bankruptcy case.  The Taxpayers Channel reported: 

My 45-year working career has been varied and full. The first official paying job I held (after three years of mowing lawns) was in the summer of my 15th year when I worked as a janitor at my school stripping and waxing floors. That fall I started working full time as a disc jockey at a radio station. I also spun records at frat parties, high school dances, and in a local discotheque. After flunking out of college I started working in restaurants and fell in love with the industry. I loved it so much that I took a job managing one restaurant during the day and waiting tables at another at night. I couldn’t get enough.

 Watching the administration of President Joe Biden and his Democratic colleagues on Capitol Hill navigate the current round of economic woes, one struggles not to recall the tenure of another U.S. president who had the misfortune to govern during one of the most trying economic periods in the nation’s history.

 Needless to say, Stephen A. was funny yesterday.  Well, funny to the whole country unless you live in Dallas, right, Howard? 

 This week, the incoming New York City Mayor Eric Adams -- the supposed rational corrective to uber-radical outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio -- announced that he would allow legislation to proceed allowing local voting for 800,000 noncitizens. The same week, the legislature in California took up a bill that would establish single-payer health care in the state, paying for the increase in costs by essentially doubling taxes.

Update (1:43 PM): The City Council rejects the garbage contract on a 4-2 vote.  Only Grizzell and Lee voted for the administration's recommendation.  Stokes abstained. It should be noted the contract was not provided to the public and was dropped on the City Council at the last minute.  

Watch the Jackson City Council discussion over the proposed garbage contract.  How many times will the Mayor raise his voice? Will Stokes storm out of the room? Will people have to buy a 200 gallon garbage can? How does this all connect to Frank Melton and the Two Lakes Plan? Tune in below to find out.

 What seems to be missing from the "News section" in the Sunday edition of the Clarion-Ledger? 

 This is sad to see but it had to happen. 

 Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba recommends Richard's Disposal of New Orleans gets the new garbage contract.  The agenda for today's meeting of the City Council states: 

 Hinds County District 2 Supervisor David L. Archie accused Sheriff Tyree Jones of interfering with the Board of Supervisors and warned him to stay in his lane.  Mr. Archie claims he is the President of the Board as does District 3 Supervisor Credell Calhoun. 

 The Jackson Municipal Airport Authority issued the following statement. 

 How Dr. King saved Star Trek.  Everyone else is honoring Dr. King with the usual videos, speeches, and memorials.  Well, JJ is going to honor Dr. King for another act he did.  Yes. Dr. King once saved Star Trek. Watch the video below.

 This post appeared on a Facebook page oriented to our local politics.  What set him off is State Senator Angela Hill sponsored a bill to get rid of Certificate of Need laws, a worthy endeavor.  Just read the screed.

 There is a prowler in the Heatherwood area.  A resident posted these messages and picture on social media. 

 The Clarion-Ledger will cease its Saturday edition.  The state newspaper reported: 

 I dunno how we missed this Super Bowl commercial from two years ago but since it's Bill Murray, it can't get old. 

 The late Dr. Frank Pollard preached on dealing with the past in the 1993 sermon posted below.  If you were snowed in, enjoy the substitute sermon. 

 Here’s a word for you – semiquincentennial. 

What’s that mean? 

 The city of Jackson issued the following statement. 

We’re entering the third year of COVID, a worldwide pandemic, a health emergency that has spun off multitudes of other emergencies many of which have been purely political. We have masked up, social distanced, washed hands, quarantined inside, and locked down all in the name of a health emergency going into its third year. 

It appears the Colemans went on a golf cart-buying spree just before Express Grain filed bankruptcy.  Express Grain asked the bankruptcy court's permission to sell 15 brand spanking-new golf carts and a truck yesterday.  The motion and invoices are posted below.

 One of my complaints about mainstream media is that they recruit reporters from inside the establishment: Ivy League colleges, expensive graduate journalism programs, rival outlets with similar hiring practices. Some staffs develop admirable levels of gender and racial diversity. But they all come from the same elite class. Rich kids believe in the system and they accept its basic assumptions. 

 It is said one can tell much about a person by how he treats animals.  The same adage applies to the city of Jackson.  The Best  Friends organization inspected the Jackson animal shelter on June 29, 2021.  No words can adequately describe the squalor and neglect discovered at the shelter.  Vet care is forgotten, poorly-trained employees abuse animals through neglect and incompetence, and animals suffer while the city turns a blind eye. The reports major findings are posted below.

 Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba issued the following statement. 

 There will apparently be no more episodes of the David L. Archie Show at the Hinds County Board of Supervisors.  

The Biden Administration's vaccine mandate for private employers is dead although it remains in place for healthcare facilities who participate in Medicare and Medicaid.  The Wall Street Journal reported: 

 The Greater Belhaven Neighborhood Foundation issued the following statement to its members. 

This post seemed appropriate given a current subject that is under discussion at the Capitol right now.  

 Commissioner of Agriculture & Commerce Andrew Gipson issued the following statement. 

 Posted below is the second part of the interview with Bo Bounds on The Jambalaya with the Kingfish.  We discuss the local scene, Y'all Lifestyle, and of course, sports.

 The Justice Department issued the following statement. 

 When I was a child there were several absolutes growing up in my mother’s home. There were the obvious good-manner requirements of saying, “Yes ma’am,” “No ma’am,” “Please,” and “Thank you,” along with the typical mom demand to, “Make sure and wash behind your ears. Brush your teeth,” and, “Make sure and use soap when you’re taking a bath. Don’t just sit and play in that water!”

 The folks at SEC Shorts show how to be happy when one loses hope.  

 As the 2022 regular session of the Mississippi Legislature moves forward, the question of the future of medical marijuana in the Magnolia State remains in limbo. Lawmakers appear in agreement on a plan to move forward on the issue, but Gov. Tate Reeves has other ideas.

 UMC issued the following statement. 

 TRAFFORD, Pennsylvania -- For the first couple of weeks in December, a tiny, bare tulip tree, common in Appalachia, grows on the trail that hugs Turtle Creek and the eye of passersby. Decorated with cheerful homemade Christmas ornaments, it brought smiles to the faces of cyclists, runners and walkers who saw it every day.

 Metalheads unite!!!  Megadeath and Lamb of God are coming to the Brandon Ampitheatre in April. 

 Express Grain warned its employees the company will probably shut down in the near future.  The Taxpayers Channel reported: 

The Jackson City Council will discuss the garbage contract tomorrow. The scoring is posted below. Notice anything?

It's Champagne season -- a line you might think indicates that this article is being published two weeks too late.

 Lieutenant Governor Delbert Hosemann issued the following statement. 

 Palmetto State Armory has a sweet deal on the SAR9 through the end of the week.  The price does not include a $30 rebate. 

 Chauncy Reed walks free on the streets of Jackson as a proud graduate of the Hinds County Catch & Release program.  Readers might remember Mr. Reed tried to kill a Jackson police officer in May 2018 but he was never indicted.  To make matters worse, a grand jury indicted Reed for another shooting and a separate case of drug dealing but he got a nice little plea deal that made him eligible for parole in a couple of years and paroled he was.

 Check out New Year's Eve at Hawkins Field. 

 Don Rickles and Clint Eastwood in front of a camera.  What could possibly happen?

 Raw sewage took over Eubanks Creek this morning.  Pearl Riverkeeper posted on Facebook:

 Who else but the late Dr. Frank Pollard could combing the writings of Robert Frost and Dr. Suess into a meaningful part of a sermon?  If you slept through the rain this morning, enjoy the remedial sermon. 

 Listening to Gov. Tate Reeves and House Speaker Philip Gunn the top issue for Mississippi’s future is eliminating the personal income tax.

 Want to take a ride with the Blue Angels?

Political righteousness, or “I ain’t stupid!” has been around since the beginning. “And the serpent said to the woman, ‘You surely shall not die! For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’” Who would ever have thought a talking serpent would lie? 

 UMC issued the following statement. 

 WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTO POSTED BELOW! NSFW!!!

One of our local nomads decided to engage in some um, burlesque vaudeville at the intersection of Lakeland Drive and I-55 recently. 

 Student loans, long a nonissue that ruined countless lives, have finally become a political flashpoint in the conflict between progressive and moderate Democrats. Yielding to lefties' pressure after Sen. Joe Manchin torpedoed Build Back Better, President Joe Biden has extended former President Donald Trump's pandemic relief to 43 million federal borrowers by pausing payments another three months, to May 1. 

 Lane Kiffin would be proud.  What are the analytics on this play? 

 The Mississippi Department of Human Services issued the following statement. 

 Someone didn't think this ad all the way through before approving it.  

 This year, Jan. 6 will be commemorated with all the ballyhoo and rigamarole Democrats and their media allies can muster. CNN plans an entire special around the anniversary, titled "Live from the Capitol: January 6th, One Year Later"; the show will feature the "heroes who protected our democracy in the face of an insurrection," and will include interviews with such luminaries as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and January 6 Committee Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are also expected to commemorate Jan. 6 with special remarks, and Pelosi has organized a bevy of events in memory of the riot.

 Can you stand some good news about the Optimus Prime variant of the Covid-19 virus?

State Auditor Shad White issued the following statement. 

 Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey issued the following statement. 

 UMB Bank and Express Grain are trying to stop Agriculture Commissioner Andy Gipson's investigation of the failed grain operator.  The Commissioner said Express Grain obtained its license to operate through fraud and asked the bankruptcy court's permission to investigate.  The grain elevator and its lender in turn asked the Court to block any investigation or revocation of the Express Grain license even if fraud took place.

The Mississippi Department of Education issued the following statement. 

The Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life dumped $3.7 million in grants to  Circuit Clerks and Election Commissions in 31 Mississippi counties in 2020.  The organization states its mission is to "increase civic participation by modernizing the engagement between local governments and the people they serve.  

Every day of my life I wear a small button on my shirt, jacket, or vest— sometimes all three— that reads, “Eat Local.”

 When retired federal prosecutor James B. Tucker died on Dec. 28 at the age of 82, the cause of justice and the rule of law in Mississippi lost a mighty warrior. Tucker was a trusted, impeccable source for me in the 1980s when I covered a copious number of public corruption trials in the U.S. District Court of Southern Mississippi.

 Leftenent Governor Dilbert Hosemann issued the following statement. 

Hooray!!!! Marshand gets to stick his snout into yet another gummint trough. WLBT reported tonight:

 Governor Tate Reeves issued the following statement. 

 A total meltdown took place at the Hinds County Board of Supervisors meeting today as Sheriff Tyree Jones was forced to clear the room.  

 Too many National Football League players are testing positive for COVID-19 and messing up the  betting odds.  And lineups for fantasy football leagues – including our Family Feud League.  So, the NFL is moving test goal posts to reduce the number of flagged players who have to sit out games.  Bad for business to mess with bookies.  And TV schedules and audiences.

 It's never a good idea to blow off the Coach. 

 By any measure, Ezra Pound was a controversial figure, but it was one of his poems that joined forces with the current inclement weather as I hunkered down in my den to suggest you spend this cold period visiting a wine country area.

 It's the first Monday of the month and you know what that means.  It's time for the David L. Archie Show live from the Hinds County Courthouse.  Today's episode: The Two Presidents Society.  Episode synopsis: What happens when two men both claim to be President of the Hinds County Board of Supervisors? 

 The folks at SEC Shorts didn't disappoint this morning.  

 Ridgeland Police Chief John Neal aired a few thoughts about parenting and crime last night on Facebook.  At least the good Chief acknowledges there is a link between the lack of parenting and crime, unlike a certain Mayor in Jackson who seems to be silent on the subject.  Chief Neal opined: 

 Uncovered emails reveal Dr. Anthony Fauci and NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins teamed up to smear scientists who disagreed with their Covid-19 edicts last year.  None were too credentialed to escape Fauci's fury as he sought vengeance against those who dared question "The Science."  

 Jackson has the highest homicide rate among major American cities.   WLBT reported yesterday: 

 Hung over and missed church because of the Sugar Bowl? No problem.  Pour yourself some scripture and enjoy this 1993 sermon presented by the late Dr. Frank Pollard.  

 You probably missed Pope Francis’s chiding Christmas message to his senior clerics where he urged them to cast off prideful armor and embrace humility.

 Just another day in a field.....