Jackson Jambalaya

That money likely bought a few luxury cars, condos on the Gulf, and fact-finding trips to Paris/London/Rome. Right?

Add it to the list of non-existent or non-functioning services referenced on the City of Jackson website. The 3-1-1 app and website haven't worked for years. No way to verify whether a certain pothole, etc. has been called in or check the status other than to call the phone number and hope they answer/add it to the list. The mayor should be too embarrassed to seek another term yet here he is.

Sooooo, what did they really spend the money on??

Well, the city said no expenditures or grants were made out of the federal grant. No reason not to believe them as it has never lied about that sort of thing before. Did it actually receive the money? Checked with MDOT and it did NOT pass through MDOT.

At least Jackson got its Greyhound bus service back. After all, it is the capital city.

Lets be honest. Jackson is not a pedestrian city. There are no sidewalks. Shopping is pretty much defunct. All the service industry jobs are in the surrounding suburbs, who do not want to extend public transit into their locale.

This place is a logistical nightmare - stuff keeps getting spread out away from the city center. There is no development plan in place, that compliments the city and the suburbs.

The sh*t show continues.

The whole plan sounded like something Dr. Blaine and Dr. Kumar cooked up. Typical PhD crap, a lot of yapping and planning but no action.

What is "BRRRRRRRRRRT"? The sound a Glock with a switch makes.

I've been wondering what happened to this. The city doesn't even have decent bus stops for those needing them. The bus stop at the VA hospital is a tiny dirt patch squeezed between the street and landscaping. The bus stop at Northside Drive by Corner Market is a tiny dirt patch squeezed between the street and parking lot. It's as though those forced to use the bus must endure more challenges. Many of the riders are the elderly or people with disabilities. There are no bus shelters for protection from sun or rain.

WTH is a neighborhood node?

Do we have those in MS?

Well- We do have one big DUMMY

My guess is if they did receive the funds, they went straight into the general fund rather than being earmarked for this program. Does anyone really think the City took the time to track whether grant funds were expended properly if they didn't even have a grant writer on staff or a grants department until the last year?

This map from the DOT website shows the status of award recipients. Not sure how often it is updated, but still shows Jackson's planning study as "underway" and links to the COJ website above. Other grant recipients have detailed updates on progress and completion timelines on their websites, but good luck getting that from Jackson.

https://usdot.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/43f17f4747974722bca7f054e3eff743

And people wonder why the state doesn't want to allocate money to this administration...

I wondered if any of this money could have gone towards the bike lanes added on Meadowbrook headed towards Fondren, but an older article said those were funded through a federal FAST Act regional surface transportation block grant with matching funds from the 1% sales tax commission. This looks like a different grant altogether.. https://cmpdd.org/the-jackson-mpo-announces-funding-for-31-metro-area-transportation-projects/

Surely the audits from 2019 forward will show how the money was or wasn't spent. Right? Right?

I'd put my money on this being another example of incompetence. I wouldn't be surprised if they never followed the steps required to receive the money.

@ March 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM - that is a fair point. Thats been the biggest issue with this administration. They've had well over 8 years to get their sh*t together. They do not have room for excuses anymore when there isn't a budget rolled out every year and no audit department to keep a handle on these matters as well.

Clown show.

Time to call in DOGE to get to the bottom of this.

Absolute garbage. Where is DOGE on this

Is a neighborhood node where the dopeboys and their customers meet to do business?

Can you locate the most popular neighborhood nodes by the number of shootings and ambulance calls?

5:35, You savior is not coming to Jackson, Mississippi.

OneLine huh? 😂 Interesting.

Jackson is a shambles well along the way toward becoming a favela, of returning to the jungle. And I’m inclined to think it’s not because of theft of public funds. Such requires planning.

Instead, I think it’s top-down incompetence. Lamumba’s knowledge of organization, of logistics, of planning, of prioritizing — all essential to simply getting something done — is so deficient that he’s incapable of so much as even pulling his thumb out of his ass. Oh, he can jibber jabber. And he’s got the hand motion thing down to lend the appearance of a forceful leader.

But at the end of the week, he is a gum-bumper, an empty suit, an electable pedigree based upon his daddy’s legacy and last name. Antar is a talker, not a doer, and that is not going to change.

Actually, you're wrong. Have you heard of the Museum Trail?

Kingfish at 1:35, yes, it's got to be a Kumar thing. He was so full of crap, talking about the "walkability" of the city. Blocked off and ruined passage down Congress Street on the side of the guv's mansion with wooden structures and a few seats. That was supposedly only the beginning. Never heard another word.

Virgin loved that wooden crap but Mr. Speed, how he hated it. Said people didn't realize how hard he worked to get the street made two way so people could actually look at the capitol as they drove down Congress.