Jackson Jambalaya

They didn't pick up on Monday in Fondren either. They showed up on Tuesday and picked up two cans of regular refuse and left a small can of yard debris. I've heard that Thursdays are for yard debris because "they have more people on the truck on Thursdays". I left it on the street so we'll see.

But they never miss a day in Chowke's gated enclave. However, if they did I am sure that his JPD palace guard would dispose of the trash's trash.

If only there was a company around here that manages waste

on Shock-Way time.

Lumumba was re-elected.
This is what Jackson wanted.
This is what all of you people wanted.
Go watch a Hollywood movie and get over it.

Y'all are just a bunch of rich, dirty, low-down white folk (to quote David L. Archie) up at the CCJ, so y'all deserve to be last.

9:30 AM, if it is in a can they are supposed to pick it up regardless.

It was an equity collection day. When they only have enough resources to complete a partial pickup schedule they screw over the people and neighborhoods actually paying their bills first.

I bet you feel the same way about Biden 9:51

@ 9:51 Ditto ! and he will be re-elected again by 70%. They don't care how bad it gets as long as they are in charge.

I'm surprised it got picked up at all.

Y'all should be used to this by now.

"This is what all of you people wanted." Yes he was elected with 100% of the city voting for him.

Mine was picked up on time, but the crew was using a rented truck.

Environmental racism. Think about it for a minute.

I bet the IT subcontractor got paid, though

Richards’ motto:
The next day is okay.

@9:55
Did David Archie really say that?

Just read where about 56% of water customers in Jackson pay water bill. That is so easy to correct. No pay bill then no water. Simple to cut off water and it not legal to give way public owned water.

Jackson is real bad at picking winners.

But I bet someone IS winning within all these "bad picks".

It's a shame the residents don't demand better leadership.

10:54 I don't live in Jxn, so I am genuinely asking...are the business owners and generational wealth families in NE Jxn actively pursuing a better candidate to support?
In both City Council positions and mayoral, it would make sense to me?

I get that not everyone voted for Chuck, but I don't see what the plan is to prevent this from happening again? And I know there is an abundance of wealth and intelligence in NE Jxn. I know the candidate must be black, but surely there is someone yall can purchase and pull puppet strings on?

I would have no real reason to be privy to such grassroots efforts, but I sure hope the malcontents are not sitting on their hands doing nothing.

Because inaction is a lot like support when it comes to elections.

What's the status of the Mayor issuing a new RFP for a fulltime/long term garbage pickup contract ?

(That's a rhetorical question of course, because he hasn't issued a new RFP and won't until 30 days or less of the present one year contract with Richards about to expire so once again he can strongarm the Council into using Richards again.)

It's the thought that counts though.

11:49 AM...Many times on the Kim Wade show.

3rd World Problems

The media clips from the town hall yesterday were interesting.

Whole lot of fire and anger now that they can yell at outsider. Its hilarious.

And I'd be mad too, most of them have not had to pay for water in 10 years and this white Yankee is telling them the party is over.

My questions is, Why did it take this Henifin character to do that?
How embarrassing that the minority leaders had to be rescued.

Broadmoor was not picked up until Tuesday. Or at least the western part of Broadmoor that I drove through.

I suspect that the RDI crews took some time out Monday to rest during the heat wave. Probably running short-handed, too. Expect more of the same for the rest of summer.

If you live in garbage, 'what difference does it make' if somebody doesn't pick part of it up on time?

I understand the frustration of the garbage pick up and it’s not right. Another issue that angers me is the amount of trash, tires, garbage, lumber, plastic, car parts, insulation along 55 and 20 inside the city limits. This is absolutely embarrassing to drive through and see all of this. Last week I had a very relaxing drive from Starkville on 25 and when I got to Jackson it went downhill quickly and I was ashamed. Needless to say there are more junkyards popping up everywhere now for the purpose of used car and truck parts than I have ever seen. These are huge eyesores and they are what they are. Junkyards. Jackson is lost and it can never come back. Hinds county has the highest tax rate in the State and it has nothing to show for it. Roads not being maintained, right of ways not being cut and I could go on and on.

@6:52 pm, I remember quite a long time ago the late Orly Hood wrote in his Clarion-Error column about a short film someone — can’t remember who ‘twas — had produced about Jackson and what a great place it is. Hood wrote, my memory serves, that it made one “as pleased as punch” to be living in Jackson. This was pre-YouTube, pre-state flag, so few people likely saw the film in the era of dial-up Internet. I know I never saw it. But the way Hood marveled at it, I wonder now how conditions compare to today.