On Sept. 2nd, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, along with representatives from FEMA and Congressman Bennie G. Thompson, met with volunteers at the city’s Grove Park community center, located in the heart of the Shady Oaks neighborhood, to distribute water to needy citizens.
Jackson residents generally believe Democratic Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is doing a better job than Republican Gov. Tate Reeves dealing with the city’s failing water system, according to a poll conducted Thursday and Friday.
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As shocking as this story is, the most upsetting to me is this: “Mississippi rejects more than 90% of those who apply for the federal welfare benefit…This year 2,500 children received benefits, state officials said, in a state with 192,000 poor children.”
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The governor of Mississippi urged residents of Jackson, the state’s largest city, not to drink the water there — if they still had access to it — warning that running water would soon be unavailable as the city’s long-struggling treatment plant failed.
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“If you want to understand today’s GOP, Republicans themselves will tell you, look to the states,” Paul Waldman writes in Opinions.
“Or you could look at ... Mississippi, where residents of the state capital and largest city now have no running water.”
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Republican Governor admits he let the Capitol city of his state slide into the 19th century on his watch after decades of neglect by Republicans who run the state of Mississippi.
The FBI questioned NFL hall-of-fame quarterback Brett Favre in connection with a $70 million Mississippi welfare scandal, NBC News reports
The nation's poorest state used welfare money to pay the quarterback for speeches he never made
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What Is Democracy? Black Leaders Meet With Biden Amid Fears Of Political Violence, Voter Suppression
The meeting came just two months ahead of the consequential midterm general elections.
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TROPICS: Wave entering the Caribbean. Doesn't look like much right now, but into early next week it could organize some. Some guidance does take this disturbance into the Gulf by the middle/end of next week. Too soon to know what the final outcome is, but we'll watch it. #BeOn4