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Some interesting comments in the comments section..
Some interesting comments in the comments section..
Non-Sports: Jackson Dawgs... Article in C-L
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to see what happens with all of the downtown loft apartments like the King Edward and Standard Life apartments. They just started doing stuff like that to attract upper class white people to go back into the city.
I think I kind of have the best of both worlds because I live in Madison, but it's because Madison is my home. I remember when Madison was Sledge's and the Main St. area. We had to go to Ridgeland to the Piggly Wiggly because we didn't have a grocery store. But, I also work in downtown Jackson and I go to church in downtown Jackson.
Everyone that moved out to Madison always seemed to have the same reasons: Cheap land (at that time), lower county taxes, the Jackson City Council was full of idiots, better public schools and it was safer. I think if Jackson the city actually polled people in Madison and Rankin, I think they would see some very obvious trends- and it's not because people are moving because Madison has a brick overpass. Basically, they need to lower their taxes and start replace the city council with a military government****** and increase the police force while cutting out corruption on the force and do things to make Jackson safer. New York City was the safest place I have ever been and had the most impressive police force that I have ever seen. If THEY can do it, a city a tenth of its size can do it. The only police force that I have seen that is worse than Jackson is New Orleans. The JPS is a bad school system that needs to be overhauled. But, at least you can send your kids to one of the myriad of private schools, which isn't different than a lot of parts of the state.
They also need to do things to make people come back to downtown. Farish St. ain't gonna cut it. They need to go ahead and do the river thing that they wanted to do with the Pearl River years ago. They missed the boat with Trustmark Park. They could have put Trustmark Park on Capitol St- which used to be the hub of Jackson life in the 50's- and had it very close to Farish St. You want to get white people downtown? Have a baseball stadium with a lot of swanky restaurants neaby. Believe me, I know white people.
I'll conclude this by saying that if I wasn't from Madison, I would probably live in one of the loft apartments downtown.
I think I kind of have the best of both worlds because I live in Madison, but it's because Madison is my home. I remember when Madison was Sledge's and the Main St. area. We had to go to Ridgeland to the Piggly Wiggly because we didn't have a grocery store. But, I also work in downtown Jackson and I go to church in downtown Jackson.
Everyone that moved out to Madison always seemed to have the same reasons: Cheap land (at that time), lower county taxes, the Jackson City Council was full of idiots, better public schools and it was safer. I think if Jackson the city actually polled people in Madison and Rankin, I think they would see some very obvious trends- and it's not because people are moving because Madison has a brick overpass. Basically, they need to lower their taxes and start replace the city council with a military government****** and increase the police force while cutting out corruption on the force and do things to make Jackson safer. New York City was the safest place I have ever been and had the most impressive police force that I have ever seen. If THEY can do it, a city a tenth of its size can do it. The only police force that I have seen that is worse than Jackson is New Orleans. The JPS is a bad school system that needs to be overhauled. But, at least you can send your kids to one of the myriad of private schools, which isn't different than a lot of parts of the state.
They also need to do things to make people come back to downtown. Farish St. ain't gonna cut it. They need to go ahead and do the river thing that they wanted to do with the Pearl River years ago. They missed the boat with Trustmark Park. They could have put Trustmark Park on Capitol St- which used to be the hub of Jackson life in the 50's- and had it very close to Farish St. You want to get white people downtown? Have a baseball stadium with a lot of swanky restaurants neaby. Believe me, I know white people.
I'll conclude this by saying that if I wasn't from Madison, I would probably live in one of the loft apartments downtown.
I'm sure it's not the only local government in Mississippi that's dominated by theatrical morons, but I never hear people talk about any of the others to such an extent.
CapitolHillRebel said:
The Jackson City Council takes it to a new low. They literally are so incompetent, there is almost no hope. At least in our lifetimes.
just north of County Line when he was developing Dinsmoor ? Still one of the all time classics and he caught enough hell about it he had to eventually take it down. It said if I remember correctly "Last one out turn out the lights". Turns out he was right.
Most of the areas in Jackson are either like Eastover where you have to be upper class, or there are places where a lot of people buy "starter homes" like Fondren, Belhaven, and there aren't really very many middle class type neighborhoods.