Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Peggy lectures Harvey...again

The Clarion-Ledger and Mayor Harvey Johnson has been preaching to us for years Hinds County needs to do more for Jackson. Never mind Jackson's budget is over $300 million while the Hinds budget is under $60 million. Supervisor Peggy Hobson-Calhoun throws it right back at Jackson in this video recorded at the Monday meeting of the Board of Supervisors:



Harvey, you should have never tried to kill the Byram-Clinton corridor project. They are now pointing out some things you don't want to hear, don't want to hear because they are actually true.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Jackson is a parasite on the whole metro area. The notion that the rest of the metro can't succeed without that shithole is a fable.

Anonymous said...

She has not clue what she is talking about.People pay taxes directly to Hinds country for certain services such a courts and jails that are not a city function.

Anonymous said...

The point is that costs spent on Jackson FAR EXCEED the tax receipts paid by Jackson.

Anonymous said...

I love the use of the word "fair" by those who want to tell you how you should spend your money to support either side in this rathole.

Anonymous said...

This is the only place I've ever lived where county supervisors have such power and do more than act as adjuncts to the city they serve. No where else is there competition but rather cooperation.

That anyone would seriously believe in this century that a county survives when a city fails would be laughable if it weren't so dysfunctionally stupid.

Anonymous said...

Word is another mugging went down outside of the "The Green Room" Pool Hall last night.
A white couple was held-up at gunpoint by two Black teenagers .

Naturally, no local media report. But the incident was verified with Law Enforcement.

If someone wishes to gamble their life on Bounds Street in Jackson, MS on a Tuesday night,
...they are braver than most.

I almost forgot, Jackson is very safe, it's only perception.

Shadowfax said...

@7:35; you obviously didn't move here from Birmingham, Detroit or New Orleans.

Anonymous said...

Well, I guess you shouldn't leave your home 9:28 pm.

I've been a victim of crime three times in 70 years. Once in Madison County and twice in other states. Once pros broke into my car and stole things out of the trunk and I didn't even know they'd done it until I had a chance to open the trunk. The police told me that was why they were having such a problem catching them...they even locked the cars back up after checking for valuables. They got the entire parking lot.

And, no, none of the crimes made the news.

Whether it's Jackson or New Orleans or Atlanta or NYC or Chicago or Columbia , SC or Dallas or Provo, Utah ...there is crime. There are areas less safe than others ...oh, like outside of clubs where people go to drink.

Pick up a copy of MUG SHOTS for our area.

You see the ring that broke into my car, the woman who stole my purse and the people who stole all my tools and equipment Madison were all white...as was the drunk driver that hit me here in MS.

Really...don't leave your house...people with unrealistic expectations are never safe.

Anonymous said...

I live in the city of Jackson and I pay county taxes as well as city taxes.

We need A ( as in ONE) county manager. He or she should be a qualified administrator who runs for office. He or she should have qualified people to handle different divisions.

This supervisor system is antiquated ( to put it kindly) and dysfunctional...too many chiefs and not enough indians.

Anonymous said...

Can the Landmark building be converted into the new City of Jackson jail? Understand the property is available for a song. A new jail downtown would bring a substantial amount of badly needed ancillary business + sales tax dollars to the BID and dramatically reduces transportation costs between the jail and the circuit court. A short light rail line using special cars could be built to run at key intervals coinciding with the court schedule to reduce transportation costs further. Prisoners could be used to pick up trash, sweep streets, clean up litter debris left behind by bar patrons and as valets at special Convention Center events. It would be the Jackson Justice Corridor. Would also reduce economic hardship on the families of those jailed who can't buy fuel to travel to Raymond. Released prisoners could walk home and enjoy a latte + roadside taco along the way to their redeemed productive lives. Let's study this. A new jail downtown has win-win-win written all over it.

Anonymous said...

And it would be so convenient to that new Residential Re-Entry Center planned for Belhaven.



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