Jackson Jambalaya

What the????? In Madison??? Must be a misprint.

When does the next plane for the Moon leave. Madison is now lost and Mary is going to have apoplexy.

But, but, they have gates and Mair Mairy! And no apartments! How can this be?

Attn 233PM. It is obvious that you do not live in Madison (TheCity).It is also acutely obvious that you wish you did. I do, and I am deeply appreciative of Mary Hawkins and what she has accomplished in nurturing a small town with one service station to become as widely recognized and RESPECTED towns in Mississippi.

3:09, I hope you can find which house is yours in your box subdivision. God forbid you have to distinguish between Kroger and Home Depot or Lowe’s and Walmart in that brick hellhole.

@3:09 Welcome to JJ Mayor Mary!

At 3:09 an acolyte of the cult of Mary speaks prophetic words in defense of the Brick & Urn adorned kingdom. Ever notice that they all have delusions of grandeur?

3:09: it is obvious (to most) that 2:33 is being sarcastic. It is acutely obvious that you take yourself a little too seriously.

A Drive By in Madison?? Wow.

@3:34 They're not real hard to distinguish if you can read. It says their names right on the front. Reading must be hard for you.

at 3:09 PM
There were actually 2 service stations in Madison when the City Elected Mary (Hawkins) Levins as mayor.

Madison is LOST!

If you Madisonites would stop feeding the trolls you'd be better off.

Everyone with a brain cell knows Madison leaders will handle this. Just as everyone with any sense knows the leaders in Hinds would not even bother to mention such a common occurrence much less prosecute.

Enjoy your effective leadership and maintained infrastructure and ignore the haters. You don't need to defend Madison. They are just trying to get a rise out of you.

This is anomaly in Madison. Sadly, this (shots fired) is a daily event in Jackson.

I hate to see Madison has gone round the bowl and down the hole. It used to be so nice.

They only shot up the house because there aren't any signs to shoot up in Madison...

That cannot happen in Utopia.

Everybody calm down. It was just someone cleaning their gun and aligning the sights...it...um...misfired a few times.

White people and drugs. Or personal conflict. At least the North Bay synthetic stucco (or concrete pineapple) should impede the force of a bullet. And the pontoon boat should allow for a somewhat fast get away. Hopefully no one was hurt. Madison isn’t really much different from Jackson.

@309. I too live in maryville and am old enough to remember when the city only had 3 police and couldn’t afford to fix the roads. I remember that Madison wasn’t for sale until it was. I also remember Queen Mary coming to schools to downplay or deny that a sexual assault occurred at the fountain theater.

How many businesses never moved to maryville because of the stupid sign ordinances or Grecian urns on the tops of buildings. The ones installed at the CVS were the best.

And you can watch her style evolve from train station themed gas stations (the ecol should have held out) and Grecian style urns on the facades. Long live Queen Mary and Mr Queen Mary, the real estate guy that rolled on his partners when Nissan was built.

The reason a drive by happened in Madison is the same reason they happen anywhere:

Society is unwilling to provide the level of punishment that could and would deter the criminal element from this particular behavior.

It's obvious that 3:09 is NOT Mary. There are a couple of typos in there, which Mary would not make. She writes beautifully - even while texting with one hand, as she's walking between conference rooms - while also engaged in at least two conversations with those who're walking with her (she's FAST: even fast walkers have trouble keeping up with her). There are several THOUSAND Madisonians who might have written 3:09. Everybody in Madison (except for a few little druggies whose parents shouldn't have had kids) feels as 3:09 does.

Detractors are more than welcome to keep their scroungy selves out of Madison.

One hears, by the way, that homes to which PoPo are summoned, can be INSPECTED, even at 3:AM, as an adjunct to Police response (generally, responders keep coming, until there's no more room in the street: CANINE SNIFFER UNITS, Fire, Inspectors...), at which point problematic properties get notices on their doors, forbidding entry. This is why Madison's number of problem children (of all ages) is dwindling. They move to Jackson (as they have been, for decades). Maybe certain posters here, are among those who've been encouraged to relocate?

"Madison (TheCity)...RESPECTED towns in Mississippi."

Yeah, it's not quite the ugliest gal in the cheapest Alcorn County whorehouse.

Mayor Mary is going to have to tighten things up. She’s going to loose that “Top Ten Best Cities to Live in “ designation!

That neighborhood has cameras. Are the suspects locked up with $1,000,000 bond?

The Madison is doomed!

The second @5:36 is the winner today! I'm still laughing out loud.

Breaking: The perp's GPS went wonky and thought that it was in W. Jackson, not Madison.

I used to think dying of boredom was the only hazard in Madison.

3:34 with the win

Madison has pineapples. There’s still that to brag about.

Madison is so 1990’s. That train has departed. Young affluents are going to Oxford, Ocean Springs and the other 49 states.

Y’all act like crime won’t go where the spoils are. What are the gangs going to reap in Jackson in 2024?

I bet those who called 911 to report the shooting didn't have to call over and over for a half hour trying to get the police on the phone.

With all those houses in Madison looking alike, it’s a wonder he shot up the right house. Or did he?

Sorry this happened.
Thankful no one was injured or hurt.

MPD and those assisting will get the folks and maybe we will see that mugshot(s) soon.

Folks. I doubt we are looking at gangs etc.but drugs are sold even in Madison county. Let’s wait and see.

The only reason they’re in trouble is because they didn’t have any red bricks to blend in.

KF for the win. 35 comments but the blog owner had to state the obvious.

One thing’s for sure, if the perps are caught there won’t be any leftist Democrat “Catch and Release,” let’s use high crime as a tactic to keep non-Democrat voters from moving in and changing the balance of power…via idiot woke judges HS.

RE: Mary, like her or not, the incredible job she’s done is undeniable and Madison is the place to be…for now. As Sid Salter pointed out in (albeit subliminally) 38% of Mississippi’s vote can be counted on to vote Democrat. So, it only takes a few more Sid Salters to get that 13% (only 22% of the 59%) and Mississippi flips to Democrat control. And, one only has to look at the other Democrat controlled states and cities to fully understand how this ends.

Attn 5:21 pm. I know a group of “businessmen” around Jackson who got an early notice of the coming of the Nissan plant and the location. They bought the property across the interstate before it was publicized, knowing it would multiply in value. Well that has been a long time, and the unimproved property has has a “for sale” sign that has been there since the plant was built.

Y'all like to bust on Madison/Mary for the red brick facades, but, love it or hate it, it's keeping Madison from looking like the hellscape that the Pearl business district became when it was no longer the "in" place to be. I've lived in Flowood since the only commercial development past Airport Rd was the Castlewoods Winn Dixie. Lacking rigorous building codes like those in Madison, I expect that Flowood is less than 20 years from looking like Pearl.

8:37 You say "Y'all" like to bust..." when it seems that it's just one little insecure person posting here over and over trying to make a case.

Same hurt every time Madison is spoken.

I live in Madison. All the Madison hate is truly a badge of honor. It means you are jealous. Go back to your shanties and keep wishing you could afford the honor of living in brick town. Yes, we are laughing at you.

As for the shooting, it happens everywhere. The only reason it is reported is because how rare it is in Madison. There were probably 15 shootings and 2 dead in the slums last night... but, honestly, who cares? Definitely not Chockwe.

Unlike Jackson, the Madison police will do their job and find shooter, the shooter will be held on a high enough bond to not be released, and he will be sentenced and convicted to where he won't do this again. In the meantime, in Chocktown, the same bully has probably already been released from last night's shooting spree and is planning his next.

The "ticky tacky" homes referred to by snot nose supra sell start at 1 million. Always love when the Northeast Jerkson brigade tries to throw shade at the Hick Couture folks of Bricktown/Madison. Do you honestly know what folks with real money (and taste) think of us, and especially, you?? The gauche fake stucco folks in Madison are only exceeded in delusion by the geezer brigade of NEJ cowering in their 60's hovels.

Folks, you are white trash, going to a 3rd tier public univ. or splurging on Tulane. Maybe Vandy if you got an SAT tutor. Get real. Hilare.

No one is jealous of a WalMart with tinted cinderblocks, nor your leased Range Rover or Alabama made Bubba Benz. Hicks all, in comparison to the rest of the nation.

3:49 Bravo... slow clap...

"Bubba Benz" Bwa, ha, ha.

Right you are, 9AM! In fact, there are so many unnoticed murdered bodies in Jackson, out in the weeds by "Lowhead Dam", and on "Lounging Lawns" all over Jackson (I hear the Eudora Welty Library is being replaced with a Lounging Lawn, aka Vacant Lot), that whole flocks of buzzards exist to eat them. Jackson's a great place to be a buzzard.

One such flock used to roost on top of the Laundry Room at the old Courthouse Racquette Club (It's just across the Pearl - a buzzard can be there, in no time). The Laundry Room was where certain female staff conducted rendezvous with various pumped-up men. "It was real creepy, with those buzzards screechin' and scratchin' on the roof."

"The "ticky tacky" homes referred to by snot nose supra sell start at 1 million. Always love when the Northeast Jerkson brigade tries to throw shade at the Hick Couture folks of Bricktown/Madison. Do you honestly know what folks with real money (and taste) think of us, and especially, you?? The gauche fake stucco folks in Madison are only exceeded in delusion by the geezer brigade of NEJ cowering in their 60's hovels.

Folks, you are white trash, going to a 3rd tier public univ. or splurging on Tulane. Maybe Vandy if you got an SAT tutor. Get real. Hilare.

No one is jealous of a WalMart with tinted cinderblocks, nor your leased Range Rover or Alabama made Bubba Benz. Hicks all, in comparison to the rest of the nation."

Well, except for a little around the edges, that pretty much covers the situation. And it is a shame that didn't have to be this way. Compare Huntsville, Nashville, etc. Even central Alabama "hick towns" like the Guntersville/Albertville/Boaz area.