No, Darryl, because I don't see factual errors in her, but I do in yours.

*It's been a sad day for years for parents who send their children to public schools. Failing districts, like JPS, have consistently demonstrated the inability to "fix the problem(s)" despite ever increasing amounts of money being thrown down the hole.*

Darryl, are you positive you factchecked everything in this statement before posting?

And Lena, the organizational chart is a good idea. And we sure do love to do an infographic. I'll put it on the story list.

Lena, I agree with you. The best thing that could happen right now is that the organizers of Celebrate Jackson, starting with city marketing director Anthony Dean, admit that Celebrate Jackson was not planned or executed well -- and tell us where all the money went (when we get the proposals and budget we will post it here). Then tell us how they're going to fix it without getting another $100,000. There are many people around Jackson who could help an effort like this work without spending all that money. They need to build alliances.

As for Team Jackson: Again, the rollout seems to be rocky. There are people involved who are declaring that it is "non-business," but Duane O'Neill says it's the public-relations arm of the Greater Jackson Chamber's Vision 2022 plan. That doesn't sound like a bad idea (although why in the world you'd need two sets of 10 committees boggles my mind), but why doesn't everyone involved have correct talking points about what it is?! Going around saying that it's "non-business" when it's clearly primarily a business organization started and run by two business organizations just makes it look like they're hiding something (that it's a business organization). We're for good business efforts; if you're going to do it, own it, and don't pretend it's a group of anyone and everyone (especially if you have to be a member to attend the luncheons).

Both of these groups need some fixes and fast if they are going to be effective. In the kind of Jackson most of us want to live in, the members of the groups would put aside their political differences and work together. I won't hold my breath, though, especially not during city election season.

Darryl, you make some good points. But I know you know that our suburbs aren't exactly immune to buffoonery (and perhaps a bit of corruption) in its elected offices. We're going to have fun when we have enough resources to cover *those* city and county governments as well.

Lower expectations if you will, but the writer did not provide a brisket recipe. It wasn't cut. The food editor said one word was cut off in print; we apologize for that. Despite our best efforts at being topnotch at all times, our hard-working staff members do occasionally make an error.

And we apologize that the Mike Chaney photo went up yesterday reversed out like this and stayed that way this long. Our photographer is fixing it now.

BTW, they're not all Jacksonians. We should have called them Mississippians, but that got lost in the holiday shuffle. Apologies.

It's hard to express what this says about the media that reported Hosemann's spin on this devastating poll without question.

It's one thing for some people to want to own weapons; it is truly mind-boggling that they think they can force it on others. This ain't that country, folks. We have the freedom to not arms ourselves, and we also have the right to call for these "gun-free zones" a minority of y'all like to wig out about. Sorry.