Jackson Jambalaya

Will the city go along with it?

OH Lawd! Another thread that will evolve into six new ones about, what else....Jackson's Whitecapping Boo Boo.

Shout out to Chokwe and Sister R!

Did it with and without you!

Kenneth's head probably bout to asspode!

NAACP and ACLU to the rescue!

OK - let's see who's drafted to the team.

Tate, do something about the liquor!

Now here comes Horhn's biggest test. Play nice with the State and get the damn system leased to the Authority pronto. Or bite the hand by playing hardball and watch future legislative largesse vanish into thin air.

Lease it and get rid of the debt.

SPLC to the rescue in 3, 2, 1. Right?

Creates opportunity to offload at least some of the associated debt but the City, seething with resentment, may be blind to that opportunity.

Horhns biggest test yet!!! He failed on police chief big time. He needs to wise up and be glad the state stepped in on water issue. Move on John move on. Too many other issues to get bogged down on this one. The taxpayers don’t want the city in charge of the water, the freeloaders on the other hand prob do. Move on!

Fully fund the zoo by the citizens of our state is the next step, paving the streets should be after that. Its not going to stop, Jackson is inhabited and run by idiots that are supported by state government.

I heard an explosion in W. Jackistan. Was that Kennef's head?

Why the fuck should the rest of the state subsidize a failing zoo?

This disenfranchises all of the people that marched so their children could choose to live in a city ridden with corruption, crime, and a lack of basic utilities. The state has no right to take away the people’s determination to live in third world squalor.

7:41 - We could never get that lucky.

Well on the bright side if the state takes over the water system Jackson can take its 2% sells tax and do other things with it. And when the state digs up the street for water line repairs, the state has to repave that section. And what about solving the problems with illegal water hook ups, I don’t think the bill writers really thought about all these things , they were to preoccupied trying to take from Jackson

Just a reminder that some reps were coward enough to vote PRESENT, Jackson!

Mayor Horhn has already shown he's too weak to make the unpopular decisions. I haven't seen any difference between Horhn and the awful Mayor Lumumba.

Free the water!!

Now take over schools

This action does not affect the 2% sales tax, which will continue to be earmarked for use toward the water system. The only difference is now you will (hopefuly) have people who know how to make decisions, put workable plans in place, make sure competent and skilled people are actually out there making improvements and that is what the 2% tax was intended for...not for arguing, stalling, and filing lawsuits (the modus operandi for Jackson leaders).

8:59. The State doesn't want Jxn's Water. The only person who wanted the water system was Antar, and that might be a clue as to why there's a new law that makes no one happy.

11:07 what 2% sales tax goes toward the water system?

KF: You know anything about 2% sales
taxes going toward water?

Sista Rukia raising the race card in 3, 2, 1...

Wrong, both of you -- 8:59 am and 11:07 am.

First, its a 1% sales tax, not 2%. Second, this does not have the state 'take over the water system' - and the state will not be diggin up streets or making water line repairs; its a regional water authority similar to the one on the MS Gulf Coast created following the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Third, the 1% is not being used for water system repairs and will not be in the future; it is being used for street improvements, replacing bridges, and some drainage system improvements. And, the 'people' making the decisions about the 1% are those who know how to make decisions and put workable plans in place; granted, they are not all officials of the city and have not been stalling or filing lawsuits.

The only correct statement between the two of you was that this legislation does not affect the [1]% additional sales tax.

One down and four more to go. Takeover JPS, airport, bonfire for blighted neighborhood and dead trees. Close the damn zoo!

2:12 mayor stalling with paving streets
with the 1% money for months .

Maybe so, but this water authority still doesn't have anything to do with 1% dollars. Or the non-existent 2% ones either. And, the state still won't control Jackson's water and sewer.