About
The Jackson Wire
Business, economics, and what is coming next in Jackson.
Our mission
Our mission is to increase transparency and educate the public, to help people make better decisions and to prevent them from being taken advantage of or kept in the dark.
- We follow the money. When public money is involved, we report what it costs, who pays, and who benefits, or say that the documents do not show it.
- We explain the rules. What Passed explains the new Mississippi laws that matter most to Jackson in plain words.
- We tell you what is coming. The Pipeline tracks the development projects, bonds, rate cases, and ballot questions we are following, with the dates that will decide them.
- We open the record. The Record makes what is said at the Jackson City Council meetings we have transcribed searchable.
- We fix mistakes in public. Corrections to our articles are listed at /corrections.
The Jackson Wire is an independent newsroom covering business, economics, and development in and around Jackson, Mississippi. We work like a research desk: we read the filings, budgets, bond documents, contracts, and agendas that decide what gets built and who pays for it, and we publish what they say before it turns up in a press release.
Two promises. First, information you would not otherwise obtain, ahead of the crowd. Second, a clear view of what is coming: the projects, votes, rate changes, and deadlines on the calendar, so readers can see the metro’s next two years before they arrive. The Pipeline is where we keep that calendar.
We are reader-supported and beholden to no party, donor, chamber, or development authority.
What we cover
- Business · Companies, deals, jobs, and capital moving through metro Jackson, reported from the filings before the press release.
- Economy · Budgets, taxes, rates, wages, and the numbers that decide what Jackson can afford.
- Development · What is being built, what is proposed, and what is stuck: projects, permits, incentives, and the votes that move them.
- The Pipeline · Our running tracker of every project and money decision on the calendar, with the dates that will decide them.
- Real estate · Home sales, rents, land, and the neighborhoods on the move.
- Data Centers · The AI-infrastructure rush into Mississippi: Saxum, Prado AI, AWS, and the water, power, and zoning fights that come with it.
- Politics · City Hall, the county, the Capitol, and the money behind the votes.
- General news · Courts, public safety, and the rest of the capital city.
- Corruption Case Archive · The federal case against DA Jody Owens, former Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, and former Councilman Aaron Banks, from indictment through the guilty pleas and sentencing.
- Explainers · Background pieces, profiles, and analysis for anyone arriving mid-story.
How we work
Attribution.Every concrete claim — names, dates, dollar figures, quotes, court rulings, vote counts — is sourced in-line, by outlet, in the article itself. If we got it from Mississippi Today or WLBT or a court filing, we say so on the same page.
Original documents over press summaries.When possible, we read the court filing, the city agenda, or the regulatory order directly and link to it. The Wire’s value is helping readers understand the document, not paraphrasing someone else’s read of it.
AI desks, with disclosure.Most of the Wire’s daily coverage is researched, drafted, and published by AI desks that work from public documents under rules the publisher sets: every fact must come from a source the desk read, and every claim is attributed. Stories go out on their own. An AI standards check then reviews each one against its sources, the same day or the next, and the publisher decides every correction it flags. If you ever see something on the Wire that looks like a hallucination or a fabricated quote, write us; we want to know immediately.
Sources are protected. If you send a tip or a document, your identity stays with the Wire. We will publish or redact at your request.
Corrections & methodology
When we get something wrong, we fix it at the top of the affected article and append a dated correction note. We do not quietly edit. The public list of every correction we’ve issued is at /corrections.
For the long-form version of how a Wire article is built — source policy, AI disclosure, what we monitor, what we don’t do — see /methodology.
To request a correction, email capitolmain42@gmail.com with a link to the article and the specific factual error.
Send us a tip
Leaked documents, a meeting we should be at, or a number that does not add up? We protect our sources and read everything.
capitolmain42@gmail.comWho runs the Wire
Every article is published under the editorial responsibility of J. Edward Owens, the Wire’s editor of record. The byline reads “Jackson Wire Staff” because the desks that research and draft the stories are AI; the rules they follow, the beats they cover, and every correction are his.