It appears Richard's Disposal wasn't exactly telling the truth when it ran behind on garbage collection two weeks ago. The Northside Sun reported last week:
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The performance of Richard's Disposal over the last ten days should come as no surprise to anyone who followed the company in New Orleans Actually, please allow me to re-write that sentence. The non-performance of Richard's Disposal over the last ten days should come as no surprise to anyone who followed the company in New Orleans.
Devastating storms rolled through the Jackson metro area over the last ten days. Richard's Disposal ran one to two days late in picking up the garbage. The New Orleans company of course, blamed the storms. Richard's Disposal might have been able to get away with that excuse except there was one problem. Waste Management serves Hinds County, Madison County, Pearl, Ridgeland, Clinton, Madison, and the other burbs. Waste Management picked up the garbage without missing a beat even though it serves roughly the same amount of customers as Richard's Disposal.
Storms rolled through again Wednesday night, knocking out power to many yet again. The city of Jackson issued a press release yesterday:
Due to recent storms, trash pickup will be delayed today. Strong winds caused a temporary power outage at the Waste Management transfer station. This is preventing the transfer of trash collections. Crews are currently working to restore power and Richard’s Disposal will resume service as soon as possible. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience.The transfer station did indeed lose power. However, Waste Management continued to pick up the garbage without missing a beat. Waste Management service areas such as Pearl, Clinton, Madison, Hinds County, and Madison County suffered no problems with their garbage collection yesterday. One official said the transfer station lost power but the company continued to accept garbage.
Richard's Disposal earned a less than stellar reputation in New Orleans after Hurricane Ida struck the Crescent City. The company's performance never recovered to pre-hurricane levels even months later. New Orleans residents would not be surprised to learn that Jacksonians are suffering the same fate.
Thus while the city and company can whine all day about storms and power outages, the bottom line is Waste Management managed to pick up the garbage when it was supposed to pick up the garbage while another company repeatedly makes excuses and that my friends, is the bottom line.
Surprise, surprise.
33 comments:
Anything Lumumba is promoting should be an immediate red flag.
Damn KF, for years you have claimed to be one that provides NEWS and information to your readers.
The City of Jackson lying is not news. It happens with absolute regularity. The fact that the Mayor would put out an absolutely false statement, especially about his personal cash-cow utility service - Richards Garbage - shouldn't come as a shock.
Am glad to see that the Northside Sun bothered to check into this and report it as well, though.
Reminding all of us about the blatenness of hizzonner's blabbering is also good for a late afternoon drink!
The majority of voters in Jackson who need to read this, won’t. In fact, most won’t read more words than a tweet this entire week. These are people who’s’ attention span wouldn’t last the entirety of the evening news if it weren’t for commercials.
The solution is very easy. Just bag your garbage and transport it to Pearl, Brandon, Raymond, Ridgeland, Madison, Canton, Clinton,
They will pick it up.
How many punctuation marks do we need to put at the end of “Lumumba is a lying piece of scum?” He will prevaricate, fabricate, equivocate, and tergivostate on any issue at any time. That is his playbook. He thinks he’s the greatest thing ever while simultaneously knowing he is incompetent and hasn’t done jackshit. He’s Narcissus and Machiavelli rolled into one, thinking nobody is on to him because he’s the smartest person in every room.
I have a mental image of him as a man who needs a mirror at every turn, every corner, every step so he can revel in his reflection and preen at his grandeur. In other words, he’s little more than empty and despicable.
Anything that comes out of New Orleans should be a red flag.
Remember Bob Miller?
Very interesting information, By the way, are there any houses for sale in Northeast Jackson?
Lamumba is about to hand out some amberlamps contracts, surely he’ll do a good job with that, RIGHT?
But as long as Richard's awarded that fat "IT contract" to Chokwe's buddies, who cares?!? It's all a grift folks. Everything you see is about the Lumumba family and friends lining their pockets. The saddest part is the people hurt the most are the most oblivious to it all.
The question is: why did the city lie? At this point it’s a rhetorical question. Everyone knows the answer.
The real question is where is the FBI and US Attorneys office? Why are they holding fire while an obviously corrupt administration in the state capital pilferers the taxpayers?
Are there any houses for sale which have water and sewage?
They did not pick up all of the garbage, they failed to pick up the Mayor of Jackson.
$100 bet half-Mayor Mythomaniac's comments yesterday regarding document shredding contained numerous falsehoods. Can't get anyone to answer damn 911 calls but sure as hell documents get shredded on schedule.
The real question is where is the FBI and US Attorneys office? Why are they holding fire while an obviously corrupt administration in the state capital pilferers the taxpayers?
YES!! *THIS* is the question!! The stench of corruption is overwhelming and yet...!
nothing.
Just like Chappaquiddick. Just like the Clintons, and now the Bidens, skating despite clear evidence of Pay-to-Play... "donations".
We get what we vote for.
Or more accurately, what they (someone?) voted for. Because I live here but I never voted for that crap and never will. And neither have the people I know.
In Eastover, FOUR. Four houses on the market.
So, why would Richards lie about the power outage? To what end? What was to be gained by lying? What was the real reason their trash pick-up was delayed?
Know what this is?
https://www.jacksonms.gov/documents/waste-disposal-services-city-project-no-rfp2023-05/
Bennie ain’t about to allow the Feds to look into his boy….
@8:55 interesting- my favorite part is the reminder to reach out to the city with inquiries on potential subcontractors. i’m sure the mayor would LOVE to refer applicants to a certain “IT” company…
Still waiting on a refund for the month with zero pick up.
Im conservative all day, but I can see the parallels in the blind voter obsession between Trump and Chuck.
People pick a political god now and staunchly refuse to acknowledge ANY imperfection in the god of their choosing.
Chuck or Trump: "I'm going to burn an occupied orphanage to the ground"
The die hard zealots: "I don't care. I am still voting for him."
I have no real hope for society on a State or Federal level.
Ms Martin should use this as proof to Wingate that this administration should be trusted to handle all of the contract going forward.
They are really good at this.
@6:41 pm, Your mayor, he is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man. You need to lighten up some.
Cannot fathom living in a city (and paying for the unreliable service) that gives this much thought to trash pickup.
Where I live, we simply pay a monthly fee, put it out and it is picked up.
Serious question, Why do you guys put up with this? Why aren't there grassroots organizers picketing Chuck? Why do the citizens just put up with it?
I don't understand.
Y'all got hood-winked. When Chowke announced that the collection site was closed due to a power outage, his lips were moving. When that happens he is lying; 100% of the time.
It could be possible that the workers experienced power outage. Things happen Life happens. At the end of the day power outages and weather affect any services we have every day. Stop pointing the finger at an issue that's not the mayor's fault.. the city council has more control. They are the ones that make the decision, not him. This has nothing to do with him
Sort of off the subject, but why hasn't the award-winning (as we are constantly reminded) Clarion Ledger jumped on this? I guess they couldn't send a reporter all the way from Hattiesburg. Northside Sun is to to be commended for making a simple email inquiry and breaking this story.
... the city council has more control. They are the ones that make the decision, not him.
What is truly sad is that you believe that.
Northside Sun broke the story? Did you read the whole post?
As for blaming the Mayor, he is the one who brought Richard's into all this. No one made him put out a press release that did not tell the truth. This website verified and reported that day that no other cities were having such problems and WM was accepting garbage at the transfer station despite the power being out.
For some strange reason, RD couldn't get it together. Same problems it had in New Orleans after storms and hurricanes. WM didn't miss a lick while RD made excuses.
The half-Mayor is totally incompetent. Now he's blaming AT&T for E911 calls going unanswered. Only a matter of time before he blames the volcano for something that has gone wrong.
Northside Sun is to to be commended for making a simple email inquiry and breaking this story.
Except that they didn't. Catch up.
It seems Richards' business model is underbid, overcommit, underdeliver and wait for a weather event or something else to put the blame on for falling behind. It says it all that WM had no issues with continuing to fulfill their commitments.
How long after the Mayor forces the city council to approve a long-term contract will Richards pull what they did in NOLA and claim they aren't being paid enough to remain competitive with the other garbage providers in terms of staffing and then ask the city for more money?
https://www.nola.com/news/politics/richards-disposal-gets-5-million-legal-settlement/article_bc2b1e16-eb5e-11ed-adfc-4f7816a64716.html
Thie pic of the RDI trunk half swallowed by a sink hole on the news was amusing.
I will grant them, THAT seems like a valid excuse for a delay in pick up.
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