Jackson Jambalaya

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As your Lead Pastor and the Church Council of Broadmoor Baptist Church, we need to bring to you a matter of great importance, and great grief.

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 The professional beggars will be out in force downtown today.  One Voice issued the following press release: 

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Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is briefing the media right now.  The press conference is streamed below.

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 Lord Protector Tate Reeves issued the following statement. 

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 Insurance Commish Michael Chaney issued the following statement. 

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A former UMC resident physician won a $6.5 million verdict against his former  for wrongful termination earlier this month in federal court.

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 What happens when Peyton's Place meets Halloween? 

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No one likes a scold and Bill Maher is no different as he defended of all things.  Halloween.  The Real Time host took on Buzzkill, er, make that Buzzfeed and its war on Halloween.   Enjoy the takedown. 

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The sermon is short but the message is long as the late Dr. Frank Pollard preached on escaping the bondage of rebellion in the 1994 sermon posted below. More than a few preachers could learn from him how to say so much in so little time.  Enjoy. 

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State Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney asked the Legislature for help after breaking off mediation efforts between the University of Mississippi Medical Center and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mississippi. Chaney called “horrendous” the complaints his office has gotten from affected patients. “It’s deplorable that the citizens of our state are being used as pawns to settle this dispute,” he said.

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 Why we can't have nice things.  Today was a great day for Jackson but some knuckleheads just could not leave well enough alone.  WLBT reported: 

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 Check out the delivery of the game balls this morning at Memorial Stadium. 

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Propublica originally published this story.  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive their biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Alec MacGillis authored this story. This story is loooong but well worth reading.  Get a Fuentes Maduro.     

Toy Reid has always had a gift for languages — one that would carry him far from what he calls his “very blue-collar” roots in Greenville, South Carolina. In high school, Spanish came easily. At nearby Furman University, where he became the first person in his family to attend college, he studied Japanese. Then, “clueless but curious,” as he puts it, he channeled his fascination with the Dalai Lama into a master’s degree in East Asian philosophy and religion at Harvard. Along the way, he picked up Khmer, the national language of Cambodia, and achieved fluency in Chinese.

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 Mandatory Covid-19 vaccines are back in the news again. I know. Seems like just yesterday science was trying to decide whether to wear masks, how far to distance ourselves from others, and promoting elbow bumps over handshakes. Following the science from the Spring of 2020 on has been a bumpy ride with very mixed results at best. 

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 Governor Tate Reeves issued the following statement. 

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 As Jackson's water system drowned, most reporters covering the story stayed in the shallow end of the pool as they repeated tired narratives requiring little analysis or research. The Clarion-Ledger dove into the deep end  and came up with a damn good story.  Surprised? Yours truly was too until he saw the bylines.  

Gannett's Investigations Editor Emily Le Coz spearheaded team of three reporters.  Ah..., Emily Le Coz, that explains the thoroughness of the article.  She had the downtown beat at the Clarion-Ledger ten years ago and definitely knows where some bodies are buried. The veteran reporter shook off the rust, turned back the clock, and gave a sorely needed lesson in reporting to the Jackson (and national) media.  Article.

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 The Chief Twit took over Twitter yesterday and heads are already rolling.  A video of one experience made it to the internet. Enjoy. 

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Local schools improve!

The Mississippi Department of Education issued the following statement. 

The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has released ACT results for the spring 2022 statewide administration of the ACTto all public high school juniors.

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This post is reprinted with the permission of The Taxpayers Channel (Greenwood).  

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 JPD Sergeant Michael Tarrio was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident near Battlefield Park this afternoon.  He was off-duty.  

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Gameday is HERE!

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 A realtor wants to change the zoning of several properties in the Fondren from R-1 to NMU-1.  The properties are at the intersection of Council Circle and North State Street.  The zoning application is posted below.  The Planning Board will review the application at its 1:30 PM meeting today. 

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 This post was first published on August 21, 2018.  It is a perfect example of how former Mayor Harvey Johnson wrecked Jackson finances with time-delayed fuses.  Mr. Bingham is serving four months in federal prison for defrauding Rolling Fork on a bond deal. 

Harvey Johnson's ticking time bomb finally blew up.  Mayor Johnson loved to brag how he was able to balance his budget without raising taxes or laying off any employees despite enduring the Great Recession.  Unfortunately for Mayor Lumumba and Jackson itself, Mr. Johnson did so with crazy bond deals that paid a great deal of cash up front - and stuck later administrations with the bill.

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AgCommish Andrew Gipson issued the following statement. 

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 A Hinds County grand jury indicted Byram resident Corey Mathis in July for his fourth DUI since 2016. Mathis was already free on bond for misdemeanor domestic violence charges when indicted.  

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 The Mississippi Department of Public Safety issued the following statement. 

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 Malcolm White issued the following statement. 

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Elon Musk is supposed to close the Twitter deal Friday.  Twitter stakeholders, er make that employees, sent him a list of demands.  Demands, not requests.  Check out the list.  You can't make this up.  

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 Madison-Rankin District Attorney Bubba Bramlett issued the following statement. 

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 The Mississippi State Department of Health issued the following statement. 

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PETROGNANO, TUSCANY— A few months after my wife and I started dating she wanted me to meet her grandmother. We set out on the road from Hattiesburg to north Louisiana, and I asked, “Where are we going?”

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Former Mayor Harvey Johnson and NAACP President Derrick Johnson left out a few facts in their EPA civil rights complaint against the state of Mississippi.  They complained in the complaint the Health Department issued only three low-interest loans to Jackson in 25 years, a clear example of the state starving Jackson of money it needed to fix its water system, right? There is just one problem.  Jackson never got more money because Jackson never asked for more money.  Jackson asked for three loans and Jackson got three loans but such details mean little when one is engaged in a smear. 

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All of the nation’s top election prognosticators – FiveThirtyEight.com’s Nate Silver, University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato, Charlie Cook, and Real Clear Politics – are offering projections and hedging bets over whether Republicans or Democrats will control the House and Senate after the 2022 midterm elections.

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 State Auditor Shad White issued the following statement. 

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 Greyhound may be gone but is not forgotten as it apparently left behind some unpaid rent at Union Station.  The Jackson Redevelopment Authority sued Greyhound and its parent company, Flix North for over $600,000 in unpaid rent and other damages in U.S. District Court today. 

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 Good news!  The telescope at St. Joseph High School in Madison is back in action for an evening session tonight. 

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Check out the entertainment offerings on High Street. 

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 Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is holding his weekly press conference.   The briefing is streamed below.

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 A town hall will be held tonight to discuss the Jackson water crisis.  The flyer is posted below. 

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Mississippi schoolchildren learned less as they stayed out of the classroom during the pandemic.  The Mississippi Department of Education released the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress in 2022 this morning.  The scores of Mississippi's fourth and eighth graders fell across the board from 2019 to 2022. 

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 The SEC teams go to therapy this week....

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 It's 3 PM on a Sunday afternoon and you know what that means.....

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 Give some props to Coach Prime.  Gameday, yes, that Gameday, is coming to Jackson Saturday.

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 The city of Jackson said it's going to pick its own management firm to operate the city's water treatment plants.  WLBT reported: 

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 Sometimes the right words came from the wrong lips.  The late Dr. Frank Pollard discussed the founding of the Church or as he put it, The Adventures of Antioch Paul.    He went from the comforts of privilege to the crudity of jail for a higher purpose.  Enjoy the 1994 sermon. 

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 The major roadblock to Medicaid expansion in the Mississippi Legislature is Speaker of the House Philip Gunn.  

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 Coach Prime had a few things to say about Jackson yesterday.

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“The first to plead his case seems just, until another comes and examines him.” Proverbs 18:17 As midterm elections get closer, debates between candidates become more important, and what passes as news coverage today will sway even more voters to the right or to the left.

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 Senator Roger Wicker issued the following statement. 

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