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Water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi developed during failures in oversight, watchdog says. Associated Press. August 16, 2024 at 9:44 AM. ... In Other News. Entertainment. Entertainment. People.
Funds earmarked for repairs at Jackson’s main water treatment plant that failed in August. JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Mississippi officials on Friday approved the city of Jackson’s request for $35 ...
More on Jackson water crisis:Jackson, MS Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba welcomes state assistance during water crisis Jackson Public Schools The city of Jackson has indicated the water shortage will ...
When the water stopped running at her restaurant in Jackson, Mississippi, on Monday afternoon, Tanya Burns was preparing for a private event set to begin about one hour later. "How do you host ...
A public health crisis in and around the city of Jackson, Mississippi, began in late August 2022 after the Pearl River flooded due to severe storms in the state. [1] The flooding caused the O. B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, the city's largest water treatment facility, which was already running on backup pumps due to failures the month prior, to stop the treatment of drinking water indefinitely.
Image: A line of cars snakes past several city blocks as workers with the Mississippi Rapid Response coalition hand out bottled water to Jackson, Miss., residents on Dec. 27, 2022.
Mississippi Today is a nonprofit online newsroom headquartered in Ridgeland, Mississippi. Launched in 2016, it was founded by former Netscape president Jim Barksdale and his wife Donna, alongside former NBC chairman Andrew Lack , to address the decline in local news coverage in Mississippi.
Historically, both newspapers, The Clarion-Ledger and the Jackson Daily News, were openly and unashamedly racist, supporting white supremacy. In 1890, after Mississippi Democrats adopted a new state constitution designed to disenfranchise black voters by making voter registration and voting more difficult, The Clarion-Ledger applauded the move, stating: