Delinquent Water Customers Seeing Turn-offs As City Copes With DeficitsThis week the City of Jackson started making good on recent warnings with water shut-offs for approximately 20,000 customers who are late paying their water bills, many resulting from problems with the Siemens contract to improve billing for customers.
'Landowners' Tort Reform Bill Would Mean 'Safe Zones' for Crime, Critics SayMississippi senators delighted the business community last week when they passed a bill to cut down on lawsuits against property owners, but strong opposition remains among law enforcement, advocates for victims of domestic violence and lawyers.
Fetal Heartbeat Ban 'A Direct Challenge to Roe,' Activists WarnAbortion-rights activists are warning that Mississippi's fetal-heartbeat bills, and others like them, are part of an effort to instigate a U.S. Supreme Court case that could overturn constitutional protections for reproductive rights.
OPINION: Ralph Northam: No Second ChanceToday, if a politician is confronted with evidence of their racism, they simply apologize or attempt to deflect blame in order to stay in office, despite having demonstrated that they don't view all of their constituents as fully human or …
Behind the Badge: Two JPD Officers Who Shot Multiple People in JacksonAfter about a year of asking, the Jackson Free Press learned the names, current status and in eight out of nine cases, the details of officer-involved shootings since Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba took office in July 2017, promising transparency and …
#MSLeg: Broadband, Abortion, Prison ReformOn Jan. 31, legislators in the Mississippi House Education Committee advanced to the House floor a bill designed to help prepare schools for the worst: the possibility of gun violence.
EDITORIAL: Mayor Must Repair City's Transparency Related to Policing, CrimeAfter asking for more than a year, the Jackson Free Press finally received the names and current status of Jackson police officers who shot people in the capital city since Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba became mayor in July 2017.