Jackson Jambalaya

Someone needs to use their allotted time to play a highlight film from Aug '22 as a reminder. The city of Jackson can't run a hot dog stand, much less a complicated water system. These people are so delusional

Make it stop!

A broken record.

A National Embarrassment. Everything about the wannabe city is a disaster.

I really think these morons in city government really do believe that they are capable of governing. Might make a good comedy to film what they do or don’t, why, and the consequences.

City water, well managed should provide income to a city. The council is right to protect a source of revenue so taxes can be kept down. Do understand that getting federal dollars that were needed for repairs to the system after DECADES of Neglect is because ALL politicians favor doing improvements with our tax dollars that can be SEEN. The system was badly damaged in floods, particularly '79. Can we get past white /black political nonsense and get to common sense and facts. A lot of our tax money is going to Flowood. Tate's neighborhood will never look as elegant as CCJ or Eastover. You will not be able to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear and most of the Flowood " improvements" are kind of tacky really, You can't move or rebuild or make more than a cheap looking copies of historic buildings.

What a disappointment for some of you to learn that " smart" isn't exclusive to one race and neither is stupidity! I'd far rather have a well educated black person who attended a first rate college than some redneck white boy from a low rated one.

Bullshit. The revenue generated should stay with the water system as it does the airport. It should be used to pay bonds, maintenance, and make improvements. Any money left over should be saved. The system is so far behind, especially with replacing the aged pipes throughout the city, it would be a long time before there will be any surplus. Period. Not to mention, in this town anyway, the politicians will see too much temptation in using any water surplus funds to fund their pet projects and line their pockets instead of planning for the future.

Maybe you remember Dale Danks imposing a $5 per month surcharge to pay for OBC and make improvements. Ditto used that against him and of course got rid of it. Think we couldn't have used those funds over the years? Just one example of how water system funding has been politicized over the years.

Just to be clear on a point, being “smart” and “educated” are sometimes two different things. Being educated doesn’t always equate to smart.

This just sounds like cope.

I don't think most posters are old enough to remember the surcharge. I know I'm not. I only know because of this blog.

Why don't the Jackson citizens just go ahead and admit they just want the government to give them more money? Maybe bribe a few more politicians?

This could have been different, had the city council fought this hard to fix the water system in the first place.

Obviously you know nothing about city governance, so next time why don't you stay to the side and let the adults talk.

City water did not, does not, and cannot, legally provide income to Jackson. The water/sewer enterprise fund was a separate entity (just as the Jackson Airport Authority is BTW but that's another discussion for another day) and was required to maintain rates adequate to provide necessary funds to operate properly and develop a reserve fund to be used in cases of emergencies or major improvements. The water system, when properly run (prior to 2014) did receive adequate revenue to run properly and fund a reserve - but it did not then, and should not now, be a source of revenue to the city.

And there is no substantiation for your 'decades of neglect' that you claim - other than repeated rhetoric from those that know nothing or care little about the truth. The treatment plant was built in 1991 and expanded in 2007 - hard to find "Decades" during that time period of major expansion of the system.

The system was not severly damaged in the 1979 flood; of course the current treatment facility (O B Curtis) was not even in existence then, only the Fewell plant which did not flood.

Your obvious political rant needs to be flowered with some facts and accept reality. As stated above, next time either bother to get some facts and truth, or stay to the side before you enter your political rant.

April 28, 2026 at 10:27 AM, what does your racist post have to do with the article?

Every reasonable person is sick of the race card being played simply because we recognize that Jackson has poor leadership. I think Mayor McGee of Ridgeland is lousy too. As for Gerald Steen, he is at the Lumumba level of destructiveness. Now that I have criticized two white guys, does this make me racist against white people?

Oh yeah, I forgot that one of the main pillars of DEI is that racism is only possible in whites, which is an extremely racist statement itself.

10:23 You're clearly a very naive person. Anyone who posts the question "Can we get past white /black political nonsense and get to common sense and facts [sic]." has no real understanding of how things operate in Jackson, Mississippi. In Jackson, black/white distinctions are the ONLY issues that matter, and that will NEVER change. Jackson is past that tipping point, such that those issues are now the reason for Jackson's very existence.

That must be it. People have forgotten going without water for close to a month and the endless boil water alerts. The water went off of a moth sneezed in the wrong direction. I thought no one could be this stupid, but here we are.