Note that my date on this changed again. The breaking news cycle is out of control, and I keep getting distracted. Almost there, though. Keep an eye out!

Give us a little bit, all, and we will factcheck all this, whichever way it falls.

Here's a [website for the service.][1] It looks like dozens of cities in the U.S. and Canada have used the service. On the surface, pardon the pun, it looks like a smart use of technology to keep us from wasting money.

[1]: http://roadmatrix.stantec.com/Customers…

I assume this is the origination of the Kush part, but I'm not sure. Anyone who knows, feel free to chime in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of…

We didn't endorse Mr. Lumumba, Darryl, and I certainly didn't vote to. Here is a blog post I just put up:

[Chokwe Lumumba Talks about the 'Jackson-Kush' Plan on 'Solidarity' Site][1]

[1]: http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/weblogs…

Wonderful, Rick, thank you. I'm still amazed that The Clarion-Ledger and the Gannett corporation didn't do everything in its power to squeeze every possible word out of you guys. They just didn't know how they good they had it.

Cheers to both of you.

AndGoodbye, you inspired me with your comment about not enough context to our statement about Lee in the endorsement to go back and add links to the story as well as the audio of the endorsement interviews of all the candidates. The audio for Lee is the first part, which was about the Mississippi Products lawsuits; our multimedia editor is processing Lee's second part about everything else now, as well as Bluntson's. I'll add those shortly.

We allotted an hour and a half for each endorsement interview and came pretty close to that on all of them. I think Mr. Lee went longer due to the timing of the default judgments revelations and the need to devote a chunk of time to it.

Thanks for the inspiration to provide more information on this thread.

Crazy that Leland Speed donated big chunks to both Jonathan Lee and Frank Bluntson. Hedging bets? ;-)

AndGoodbye, if you have story tips and sources, feel free to send them to [email protected]. Anything without evidence is rumor in the journalism world. And perhaps you'd sit down for an interview about your accusations? That would be helpful as well.

Sarahmina, I actually like Lumumba a lot as a person and admire the struggle he has endured. I do believe he could be polarizing as a mayor and did not vote to endorse him as a result. I make no apologies for that.