Jackson Jambalaya

https://www.wlbt.com/2024/01/05/fundraising-effort-start-this-year-new-ridgeland-performing-arts-center/

That ain’t no way to run a railroad.

When was the last time this “Esteemed Fire Marshall” entered this building prior to this “Revelation”? After all, that is his job,

The local media seems to refuse to use the "M" word, i.e. mold. They insist on saying "microbes," which can include a number of different types of nasty stuff.

That dog just ain't gonna hunt!

On the positive side, apparently the rats and mice are well fed.

Unsavable , time to cut loses Jax

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I would say burn it down and let the insurance company build, but I am reasonably sure the insurance agent is not associated with any “insurance company”. Maybe the city “auditor” can check this out.

This is inexcusable in any way shape or form. As a former business owner who left Jackson because of other issues, I cannot fathom how the great people who had a vision to make Jackson what it once was and how the current leaders, if that’s what you want to refer them as, have done to this city. Thalia Mara Hall was known WORLD WIDE! How embarrassing this is. We have lost a true gem. I know many of you hate Jackson but if you had known it like someone like I did who grew up in the 70’s and 80’s did, you would stand back and say “what happened and WHY?!!” None of this should have occurred. It is a first class event space and I have recently heard that the Mississippi Museum of Art is having AC issues. If the current administration doesn’t address this then it shows that’s it’s all about hate…the hate of the people who made this once great city what it was and hate for what it stood for. It was the “Crossroads of the South” for a reason. The wealth of people who still live in pockets of this mentally disturbed city cannot continue to fund the deranged antics of the current leaders. 27 years….thats how long it’s been since we have had great leadership. 27 damn years. Enough is enough and it’s time for a change.

One of the many good things about Friday - even Friday the 13th - is that it's Ancient Aliens Day on The History Channel. So, just when I think I've seen all the strangest & stupidest things possible, along comes the city of Jackson saying, "Here, hold my beer."

Burn the mold

You cannot insure a building in this condition with codes that the Fire Marshall just cited and yet they want raises. Could it be that the Mayor won’t allow the Fire Chief to do his job but he is not over the State Fire Marshall. Just think if there had been a fire & lives lost. Who would Mayor Chockwe blame then? He alone is responsible. Melissa Payne can sit down and hush about Stokes! She better CHA as she knows more than she tells at the pressers. Wonder what her paycheck looks like?

@5:50 PM, in that it is a City building (property), it should be routinely inspected by the City Fire Marshal’s (single "L", bad form casting dispersions with improper word use) After all, it’s THEIR job. You know, those guys in JFD uniforms that Lamumbalot used to strong arm $50 from each individual vendor at the Wahabi Shriners gun show a couple of years ago.

" Thalia Mara Hall was known WORLD WIDE!
September 13, 2024 at 7:17 PM"

Slow your roll there high speed

Bravo KF !

"Fire and Mold" sounds like a Game of Thrones episode
from season four or five.

Total and complete executive branch failure.

Thalia Mara is a symbol of the current state of Jackson under the current administration. It’s a crying shame.

It hadn’t been neglected per the mayor

The State Fire Marshal can’t cite proper code much less enforce it. Since when is CAT 5 cable an extension cord btw?

8:33, it sounds like a James Taylor song, “I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen mold…”

@9:43 for the win! I thought something was odd about that photo but I didn’t zoom in.

What a domino effect there could have been. Had those iffy electricals ignited the improperly stored flammable liquids, a fire reaching FLASHPOINT would have ensued (remember, the fire extinguishers were STALE, and were unlikely to have worked, even had the fire been discovered before flashpoint sent flames racing across ceilings, igniting "flame-retardant" surfaces.). Then, the combination of the nonfunctioning fire curtain, and the BLOCKED EXITS, could have caused an unspeakable tragedy. MULTIPLE BLOCKED EXITS? Surely, blocking fire exits in a public auditorium, is more than just a code violation.

Nope. Fire Marshalls don't pull random inspections for no apparent reason.

That is clearly a CAT 6 cable. Not a CAT 5 or CAT 5e cable.

Those “visionary” people who built Jackson were racists and are only worthy of mockery today.

Jackson sits at the bottom of the shithole that is the state of Mississippi.

Chowke's plan is coming together, i.e. destroy Jackistan's infrastructure. It's in the Marxist playbook. It's not about incompetency; it is all planned. Move or quit your bellyaching.

Again, these things don't happen overnight. It was built in 1968. It's 56 years old (for the math challenged) and the budgets for maintenance during that time were either inadequate OR the maintenance poorly done or the design and construction was not as good as it should have been OR corners were cut. IF you build a building for public use, you have to have the best materials and make the long term maintenance/ repairs easily accessible. Haas who designed some buildings was especially good at sustainability, but he was expensive.
The state needs to come up with the money rather than let neglect continue to damage it. Having an auditorium like that in Mississippi's capitol city is good for the entire state so we don't come across as rednecks who don't keep up their property and do cheap instead quality!

"Human waste products along balcony outside the building"???

"...so we don't come across as rednecks who don't keep up their property and do cheap instead quality!" That horse has already left the barn years ago. Using state money for repairs is exactly what the Marxist Mayor wants as long as he doesn't give up control of his little socialist empire.

I come from a city in another state smaller than Jackson. It has an auditorium/theater that is over 100 years old. It is closed for a month each year for inspection, maintenance and repair. The citizens who do that sort of work do charge only their wholesale cost for materials and full cost for time and labor. It's called pride in one's community and state and determination to leave behind better than what you found. My father actually didn't even charge labor but paid his guys out of his own pocket.
This is the only place I've ever lived where the citizens seem to dislike each other . I hear bad things about the "delta " and the "coast" and then meet someone from those places who hate Jackson and central Mississippi, particularly the women long before white flight. I don't understand why some of the volunteer and service organizations are segregated here. Smart and hardworking and successful and generous isn't usually limited to one race. I think this keeps Mississippi at the bottom of things. You just won't work together for everyone to do better.

Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain
La-di-da-di-di
La-di-da-di-da
The Thalia Mora was once the rage, uh-huh
History has turned a page, uh-huh
The running things down is the current thing, uh-huh
Lumdumba is the new born king uh-huh

Whoa, 8:15, get your facts straight. The state HAS ponied up the money. $2 million in 2022, city still has $400,000 of it, $1.5 million in 2023 - city didn't submit proper MOU until end of July, money is coming if it hasn't arrived already, $1 million this year but it will take a little while for it to get to city. The state chipped in $1 million on the restoration 10 years ago. So the state has provided $5 million over three years and a million a decade ago.

@8:40AM Divide and conquer is the goal of the leftists/progressives.

Sister Rukia needs to organize a protest against the defective air conditioning units at Thalia Mara Hall, the public libraries, the Planetarium, etc. After all, the citizens are paying for upkeep and DEMAND JUSTICE!

8:15, as KF said, you need to get your facts straight. There’s absolutely no reason to think the design or construction Of TMH was deficient, or any “corners cut”. There’s never been any complaints about its adequacy as a venue and it’s never had to shut down until the current administration took over. The libraries, roads, water, sewer, zoo, traffic signals, etc. - can you not see a pattern?!?

Scrappers got the fire hose for the fittings.

Not BabyChok's plan. There's more than a dusty old Marxist Playbook in-play, here. There is ONGOING central control, from far outside Mississippi. And if you think that moving is going to do any good, please pause to consider what's happening to previously-ideal places like Maine and New Hampshire.

Agreed.

Another great example of the dysfunction that is Jackson. A person would think having a venue like Thalia Mara would invoke a sense of pride. What Thalia Mara does for the people in power is remind them of the "racists" who built it. How do you fix that? What message is the current administration trying to send?

It takes a lot of brass to steal a fire hose.

State should simply condemn the building, it will take $20M to fix all that's wrong. Why throw new money after old. Use remaining funds for demolition, build a "State of the Art" Performing Arts Center in Ridgeland. Magee is a competent leader/thinker/manager, he could assemble a team of investors and build a better located, new and world class Performing Arts Center faster than Jackson can fix Thalia Mara Hall.

Chowke is why successful people can't have nice things in Jackistan.

11:43, If you want to know about the Lumumbas, you can start with the Malcolm X grassroots movement and their dream of the Republic of New Afrika, which began in Detroit.

They are Black Nationalists, with their own agenda.

@ 11:43, please elaborate on your statement. If you are correct and I’m assuming you are, we need to know what outside faction is controlling this. The pattern is is set and we have seen that what was implemented by the older citizens of jackson so if what you are saying is true we need to delve into that quagmire.

It's true, Mr. Rayner. Facts are your friend.

International Ballet Competition. Of all the places it could have been held, it took place here. I’m just a blue collar guy but I can attest that we need culture. It may not be your thing and I never attended it but it was a positive impact.

With that being said all recyclers in the area should be held accountable for the materials they accept. It’s just not being done. They are just as complicit as the actual thieves

And they along with Benni Thompson who is a member is responsible for the murder of a Jackson Police officer and the shooting of an FBI agent in 1970

While correcting the poster's spelling of marshal, you used the word dispersions instead of aspersions. Did you really mean to do that?

Or there is a book by GRRM called Fire and Blood ;-)

Please elaborate on 'volunteer and service organizations' being segregated in Mississippi. First, identify those organizations and then explain your comment.

For fun, the state fire marshall should go inspect Jackson City Hall. No telling what might be found there.

@3:58, I see what you did there. Quite clever.

"@ 11:43, please elaborate on your statement. If you are correct and I’m assuming you are, we need to know what outside faction is controlling this."

But, @3:58, if @11:43 calls a faction out, names names, such posts are deleted and never appear. Some factions, in other words, are protected.

So when @11:43's reply calling out the faction doesn't appear, it appears that @11:43 cravenly does not answer and you, @3:58, have shown him up to be the bigoted clown.

That's the way it works now when we have "freedom of speech" here in the Greatest Country Ever In God's Creation.

It's actually a serious issue.

Did the City of Jackson ignore fire inspections in all assembly occupancies?

Or did the City of Jackson ignore at least one fire inspection in City owned assembly occupancy because it was owned by the CIty?

Hopefully the state fire marshall will get enough complaints to help determine how bad this problem is.

The City's casualty and liability insurers can't be very happy about this issue.

Acute insight! ...although 3:58 is only clever if he/she/it originated that gambit, and is not an "operative" or AI, following a template crafted by others, for the purpose of stifling Internet discourse.

Who, among those crafting templates, would know under what constraints and threats blog owners operate, since 2020? (and know how to exploit those constraints) There is an old saying, which I know in a language not readily translatable: "The oppressor ONE IS NOT ALLOWED TO NAME, is the ultimate oppressor."

Pardon the question, but I dont know. I always thought fire marshals inspected buildings on a routine basis. Is that not the case?

The good news is these violations are easily fixable. Might have to wait on a new fire curtain but installation shouldn't take too long once it arrives. Hell, most of these violations probably can be taken care of in a day or two.

The bad news about the fire code violations: This stuff kills people.

The fire extinguisher good through 2006 either hadn't been noticed on what should have been an at least once a year inspection schedule, or it had been noticed and no one cared enough to do anything for some reason.

Also the fire alarm panel with multiple system trouble codes showing indicates a significant management failure. Trouble codes on the panel require immediate attention from qualified persons.

Exits obstructed? Should never happen.

Again,these things should be able to be individually fixed quickly, but every one of these fire safety violations has been committed by either people who don't know, or don't care.

Every one of these fire safety regulations has a pile of dead bodies behind it.

They could have copied and pasted the violations list from MEMA's daily action report on O.B. Curtis.

The city of Jackson is in shambles but aooarebtly the State Fire Marshal is too. Those are not sump pump rooms. Clowns

The letter is hardly enforceable anyways… a good lawyer would see that those are the wrong code violations attached to the report.
The codes may have a pile of dead bodies behind them- they should have never left the building before the exits were unobstructed and extension cords removed before they left the building.

Is this a workforce issue like anything in Mississippi? There is no one competent to maintain Thalia Mara?

What does the Jackson Kush Plan manifesto say about this topic?

If it's not there, then it's just more getting in the way of Jackson's greatness!

Yes, I'm sure it is a workforce issue, like everything in Mississippi. Beginning in the early '50s two generations of my uncles individually fled Mississippi, for what is now the Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion. Their composite life story consistently describes the relief of not being dragged-down, anymore, by incompetent do-nothing Mississippi labor. In Mississippi, they were struggling one-man operations. Once escaped, their efforts blossomed into INDUSTRIES - each doing those things on-his-own.

So, yes, something as simple as routine maintenance and replacements, can become impossible, once Mississippi Labor is factored-in.

The true horror, though, is that these Jackson Do-nothings are being hired by Ridgeland and Madison, as wide swaths of dead vegetation are revealing. They're too lazy to cut down weeds, and are just riding around spraying... even along the edge of the pond in Strawberry Park....

Since the mayor doesn’t provide any updates - there is a new chiller sitting on by Thalia Mara and JCI is on site getting it ready to install. Getting it piped in and controls connected and startup will take a little time, but A/C should be back on soon. It’s a bit more complicated and time consuming than setting a new house unit.

Also no one has cleaned up the human shit off the balcony. And the fountains out front are not operational. Algae is growing on the water.