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October 2026

  1. October 23Jackson Says Mississippi Home Corporation Will Match $3.1 Million for Homeward JXN. The Agency’s Own Manual Caps Those Grants at $750,000.
  2. October 23Morning Brief: Oct 23 · Jackson Demands $1.3M Back From AT&T; Water Plan Draws Suburban Pushback
  3. October 22MDEQ Issued Traceview’s Air Permit Oct. 14. The $1 Billion Ridgeland Gas Plant Can Now Build.
  4. October 22Morning Brief: Oct 22 · 110-Acre Medical District Study Lands as Cancer Center Breaks Ground
  5. October 21JXN Water’s Transition Plan Hinges on a $120.8 Million Purchase of City Assets. The City Has Not Agreed to Sell.
  6. October 21Morning Brief: Oct 21 · Jackson Asks Judge for Water Hearing; Tourism Tax on Nov. 3 Ballot
  7. October 20UMMC Breaks Ground This Month on a $250 Million Cancer Center. $100 Million of It Is State Money.
  8. October 19Trustmark Sold 34 Branches Sept. 3. Seven Weeks Later, Hinds County Has Recorded No Deed to Any Buyer.
  9. October 18Westland Plaza’s $11.8 Million Sale Closed a Year Before It Was Reported. The Buyer Is Still Unnamed.
  10. October 17Trustmark’s Blue Owl Filing Names No Branch Addresses. Hinds County Has Recorded No Deeds.
  11. October 16Jackson sales tax diversion slips 0.2% to $2,622,651 in September
  12. October 16Flats at Fondren: The Developer’s Own Filing Says April, Not August, and It Never Says $59 Million
  13. October 16Morning Brief: Oct 16 · JXN Water Plan Would Cut City Hall Out of the System
  14. October 15Three Prado Projects, Three Different Stages: What Is Actually Built, Permitted, and Still Paper
  15. October 15Morning Brief: Oct 15 · Data Center Clock Ticks as Paving Bids Open
  16. October 14Jackson’s Oct. 6 Agenda Shows the Casino Land Vote, a $1.3 Million Opioid Grant, and a Chicago Flights Deal
  17. October 14Morning Brief: Oct 14 · Horhn Touts $150M Road Push, Discloses $1.3M Overbilling
  18. October 13Jackson’s Nov. 3 Tourism Tax Vote, Explained: What the Ballot Asks and Who Spends the Money
  19. October 13Morning Brief: Oct 13 · Horhn’s State of the City Lands as the $23M Hole Comes Due
  20. October 12Jackson Adopted the $10-a-Ton Landfill Fee Oct. 6. The Gate It Applies To Is Still Not Fully Open.
  21. October 12Morning Brief: Oct 12 · Cyberattack Knocks 69 Mississippi Government Sites Offline
  22. October 11MDEQ Has Now Answered the Traceview Comments. The Permit Board Votes Oct. 13.
  23. October 10MDA Has $12 Million for New Workforce Housing. Hinds County Is One of Six Places It Can Go, and the Deadline Is Nov. 30.
  24. October 10Morning Brief: Oct 10 · Jackson Sales Tax Diversions Beat Forecast as Ridgeland Surges
  25. October 9Jackson Just Put Three 24-Month Paving Contracts Out to Bid. All Close Oct. 27.
  26. October 9Morning Brief: Oct 9 · Isaias Closes In as Jackson Sales Tax Diversions Beat Forecast
  27. October 9Farish Street Green Is Open. The Wire Found No Public Watering Plan or Upkeep Budget.
  28. October 8Jackson Tabled a $111,000 Option on 93 Pearl River Acres. The Appraisals Behind It Are the Story.
  29. October 8Morning Brief: Oct 8 · Gas Tax Pause Talk Meets a $5.89 Diesel Price
  30. October 7Jackson Just Renewed the 311 Software It Is About to Replace. The ERP Addendum Sets a 2027 Start.
  31. October 7Morning Brief: Oct 7 · Council Tables Pearl River Casino Land Deal
  32. October 6The Museum Trail Is About to Reach Downtown. Here Is What Six Miles of Path Could Mean for Jackson Property, and Why It Is Not Atlanta’s BeltLine.
  33. October 6Entergy’s $1 Billion Ridgeland Power Plant Goes to the Permit Board Oct. 13. The Public Comment Record Is Already 88 Pages.
  34. October 6Morning Brief: Oct 6 · Landfill Fee Hike Lands as Refinery Lands $502M
  35. October 5JRA’s Farish Street Phase II Deadline Is Oct. 30. The 200 and 300 Blocks Are on the Table, and the Asking Prices Are Public.
  36. October 5Morning Brief: Oct 5 · Council’s Tuesday Agenda Packs a Fee Hike, a Settlement, and Chicago Flights
  37. October 4Jackson’s Council Votes Tuesday on a $1 Million Grant to Win Back Chicago Flights, and Sets a Hearing on a New Downtown Tax District
  38. October 4Morning Brief: Oct 4 · City’s ERP Bid Closes Tuesday; Hinds Budget Lands Monday
  39. October 4UMMC’s $250 Million Cancer Center Is Expected to Break Ground This Month. Nothing on the Record Says the Stadium Has to Go First.
  40. October 4The DPS Tower Is Gone. What Happens to the Corner Is Undecided.
  41. October 3A $486,000 Federal Grant Landed in Midtown Last Week. No One Announced It but a Congressman.
  42. October 3Morning Brief: Oct 3 · Rubbish Fees, a $486K Midtown Grant, and a 9.5% Sales Tax Bump
  43. October 2MDA Has a New Director as of Oct. 1. The Agency He Runs Spends $400 Million a Year, and Jackson Metro Is in Line for It.
  44. October 2Morning Brief: Oct 2 · Amazon’s CEO Makes Mississippi His Case for Data Centers
  45. October 1Jackson’s Data Center Ban Expires Jan. 23. The Ordinance That Replaces It Is Still a Draft.
  46. October 1Morning Brief: Oct 1 · Horhn Swaps Out Two Deputies as the $23M Budget Hole Comes Due

September 2026

  1. September 30Jackson’s Permitting Software Is 15 Years Old. Bids on Its Replacement Are Due Oct. 6, and the City Still Has No Budget.
  2. September 30Morning Brief: Sep 30 · Jackson’s $337M Budget Starts Thursday With a $23M Hole
  3. September 29Jackson’s $1.99 Million Equipment Lease Comes Due Tuesday. The RFP Names Every Machine.
  4. September 29In Utica, a Quiet Land Assembly at a Lake Subdivision the Tax Roll Values at a Few Hundred Dollars a Lot
  5. September 28Record Diesel Is Costing Jackson-Area Truckers 42 Cents a Mile More Than Last Year
  6. September 27Undetermined Is Not Nothing: What the Evidence in Nolan Wells’ Death Actually Shows
  7. September 27Jackson Wants Rate Quotes by Tuesday on a Lease-Purchase Deal It Has Not Priced or Named
  8. September 27Morning Brief: Sep 27 · Diesel Sets a Record; Hinds Closes the Books Wednesday
  9. September 26Jackson Is Shopping for a Lender Again: Lease-Purchase Bids Due Tuesday, and the City Won’t Say What It’s Buying
  10. September 26Jackson sales tax diversion hits $2,612,443 in August, up 9.5% from a year earlier
  11. September 25Follow the Trucks: A $20 Landfill Rate Invites the Whole Metro to Dump in Jackson, and Jackson Pays for It
  12. September 25Jackson Voters Will Decide a Tourism Tax in November. The County Budget Already Books the Money.
  13. September 25Jackson’s Landfill Reopens at $10 a Ton. For Most Loads That Is a Price Cut, and It May Not Cover the Cost.
  14. September 24VA Awards $14.5 Million to Build a New Residential Wing at Jackson’s Veterans Hospital
  15. September 24Morning Brief: Sep 24 · $150M Street Blitz Picks Contractors; Chapel Ridge Owner Ordered to Demolish
  16. September 23Jackson Metro Payrolls Hit a Record 302,100 in August. The State Just Won $8.5 Million to Train for the Jobs Behind It.
  17. September 23Morning Brief: Sep 23 · Landfill Reopens With New Per-Ton Fees as County Bids Out Demolition
  18. September 22Trustmark Sold 34 Branches for $91.7 Million and Leased Them Back. The Rent Is $6.4 Million a Year.
  19. September 21Hinds County’s New Jail Is Behind on Supplies. Supervisors Meet Tuesday With $2.3 Million a Year Already Committed.
  20. September 21Jackson Council Moves to Extend Verizon Leases on Two City-Owned Tower Sites
  21. September 21Morning Brief: Sep 21 · Verizon Tower Deals and Tax Levies Top a Busy Council Week
  22. September 20Jackson Locks In 2027 Employee Benefits, Rewrites Trash Fees and Sells Surplus Land on Tuesday
  23. September 20Morning Brief: Sep 20 · Solid Waste Fees and Debt Collector Land on Tuesday’s Council Agenda
  24. September 19Diesel Hit $6 in Mississippi. Here Is Who Pays First, From the Delta Harvest to Jackson’s Fuel Bill.
  25. September 19Jackson Council to Vote on Hiring a Private Debt Collector to Intercept Unpaid City Bills
  26. September 18Jackson Moves to Rewrite Its Solid Waste Disposal Fees, Two Weeks After Passing a Budget
  27. September 18We Read Amazon’s 45-Page Water Contract With Ridgeland. Here Is What It Actually Says About Jackson.
  28. September 17J. Dewayne Thomas, Who Sat in Judgment of Hinds County for Two Decades, Dies at Home in Byram
  29. September 16Jackson Should Say No to Data Centers. Here Is Every Argument for Them, and Why Each One Fails.
  30. September 16Morning Brief: Sep 16 · Data Center Convening Closes as Counties Ask Who Pays
  31. September 15Hinds County Adopts Budget With a 1.5-Mill Increase, and the Jail Is Why
  32. September 15Morning Brief: Sep 15 · Data Center Convening Opens as Jackson’s Own Rules Still Unwritten
  33. September 14Morning Brief: Sep 14 · Data Center Rules Land in Jackson as Regulators, Counties Meet
  34. September 13The Officials Who Actually Vote on Data Centers Meet in Jackson This Week
  35. September 13Morning Brief: Sep 13 · Water Bills Headed Up Again as JXN Water Eyes 10% Hike
  36. September 12Jackson’s Data Center Ban Has a Clock. The Ordinance It Was Meant to Buy Still Doesn’t Exist.
  37. September 12Morning Brief: Sep 12 · Arrest Made in Tasia Fortune Killing as Budget Lands
  38. September 11JPD Calls Tasia Fortune’s Death a Homicide. The Paperwork Comes From a State Office.
  39. September 11Morning Brief: Sep 11 · Council Votes on Budget Today as Reserves Eyed
  40. September 10JXN Water’s Own Math Says Selling the System Saves $1.4M a Year. The Rate Hikes Are the Real Story.
  41. September 10Morning Brief: Sep 10 · Budget Clock Hits Five Days as Millage Stays Flat
  42. September 9Madison County Approves $48M Conference Center Bond After a 3-2 Fight Over the Fine Print
  43. September 8Flat Millage Locks In No Tax Increase as Public Works Cut Looms
  44. September 8Morning Brief: Sep 8 · Council Meets Twice as Budget Deadline Nears
  45. September 7Horhn’s Third Chief of Staff in 14 Months Arrives as His CAO Departs
  46. September 6Homeward JXN Launches This Month With a $3.7 Million Gap and Landlords It Hasn’t Recruited
  47. September 6Morning Brief: Sep 6 · Fifth Circuit Kills Lead-Water Suit; Budget Clock Ticks
  48. September 5Public Works Faces the Deepest Cut in a Budget the Council Must Pass by Sept. 15
  49. September 4A Collapsed Line in Belhaven Gets the City’s Emergency Treatment
  50. September 3Stokes Softens His Water Demands: A Seat at the Table, Not the Keys
  51. September 3Morning Brief: Sep 3 · Council Sets Tax Levy Today; Jazz Great Wilson Dies
  52. September 2Owens’ Federal Law License Hangs on a Deadline That Lands This Week
  53. September 1Jackson’s Data Center Moratorium Is Ticking. The Ordinance Isn’t Drafted.
  54. September 1Morning Brief: Sep 1 · Budget Vote Lands Amid $30M Shortfall

August 2026

  1. August 31A Mississippi Commissioner Wants to Let SNAP Benefits Pay Water Bills
  2. August 30A Closed South Jackson School Reopens as a ‘Resilience Hub’
  3. August 29After $23 Million Renovation, Jackson Hands the Planetarium to the Art Museum
  4. August 28Fifth Fire in Nine Months at Chapel Ridge Apartments. All ‘Human Involvement,’ Chief Says.
  5. August 27Jackson Puts a Tourism Tax Hike on the November Ballot. First Since 1983.
  6. August 26Jackson Council Schedules Another Budget Hearing for Thursday, a Day After the Vote
  7. August 24NCUA Says Former JAFCU CEO Likely to Plead Guilty as $95M Case Drags On
  8. August 23JXN Water Files Plan Calling for Another 10% Rate Hike Next Spring
  9. August 22Prime Left. Kiffin Left. Mississippi Stayed.
  10. August 22Jackson’s Budget Heads to a Vote Tuesday. The Council Has Met on It Three Times in One Week.
  11. August 21JTRAN Strike Ends After 38 Days. The New Contract Lets MV Hire More Non-CDL Drivers.
  12. August 21Morning Brief: Aug 21 · Flats at Fondren Breaks Ground; Council Meets Today
  13. August 20Jackson’s ‘Flat’ Budget Is 16.8% Smaller. Council Members Say Even the New Numbers Look Too High.
  14. August 19Jackson Has Five Years Left on a $4 Million Library Grant. No Site Has Been Chosen.
  15. August 19Morning Brief: Aug 19 · Prado Conservatory Clears Rezoning; Budget Talks Resume
  16. August 18Jackson’s Own Consultant Warned Data Centers Strain a Water System Under Federal Control
  17. August 17A 621-Vote Candidate Is Suing Jackson Over Its Public-Comment Rules
  18. August 17Morning Brief: Aug 17 · Library Donation Offer Tests Budget; Zoning Council Meets Today
  19. August 16Owens Gets 30 Days to Save His Federal Law License. State Court Called His Resignation Proof of Guilt.
  20. August 15Flats at Fondren Will Rent at Double Jackson’s Median. The Plan It Cites Calls for Mixed-Income Housing.
  21. August 15Morning Brief: Aug 15 · JPD Chief Warns $5M Cut Hits Staffing
  22. August 14Jackson’s Fire Chief Wants $1.7 Million to Hire 25 Firefighters. The Rating Bureau Wanted 104 on Duty.
  23. August 14Morning Brief: Aug 14 · Public Safety Budget Day Lands as Hearings Continue
  24. August 13Jackson’s Data Center Ban Takes Effect Thursday. Two Days Earlier, the Council Asked Where to Put Them.
  25. August 13Morning Brief: Aug 13 · Public Safety Budgets on the Table Today
  26. August 12Mississippi’s Redistricting Hearings Open With No Maps to Show. Advocates Call That the Point.
  27. August 12Morning Brief: Aug 12 · Council Eyes Data Center Sites as Ban Looms
  28. August 11Jackson’s Flat Budget Assumes $37.5 Million in Property Tax It Hasn’t Collected in Three Years
  29. August 11Morning Brief: Aug 11 · Budget Hearings Enter Day Two
  30. August 10Stokes Wants Code Enforcement Under JPD. The Police Chief Says No.
  31. August 10Morning Brief: Aug 10 · Budget Hearings Open Amid Deficit Fight
  32. August 9West Jackson’s Westland Plaza Changes Hands for $11.8 Million, a Bet Priced for Vacancy
  33. August 9Morning Brief: Aug 9 · Person of Interest Held in Fortune Death; Budget Hearings Open Monday
  34. August 8Jackson Council Refuses to Declare a $36 Million Deficit, Betting on Spending Restraint
  35. August 8Morning Brief: Aug 8 · Budget Hearings Open Monday Amid $36M Deficit Fight
  36. August 7Morning Brief: Aug 7 · Budget Hearings Open Monday; State to Raze Virginia College
  37. August 6Morning Brief: Aug 6 · Homicides Projected Near 92; JTRAN Talks Stall
  38. August 5A $28 Million Bet on North Jackson, Financed With $1.3 Million the City Doesn’t Have to Pay
  39. August 5Morning Brief: Aug 5 · JTRAN Strike Drags Into Week Four; JXN Water Collections Top $8.3M
  40. August 4Mississippi’s Infant Mortality Rate Hits a Decade High. Hinds County Is Worse Than the State.
  41. August 4Morning Brief: Aug 4 · Heat Index Nears 110; PSC Data Center Docket Looms
  42. August 3Flats at Fondren: A $55 Million Bet That Jackson Rents Can Reach $2,100
  43. August 3Morning Brief: Aug 3 · Hinds Board Meets on Millage; JPS Year Underway
  44. August 2Jody Owens Permanently Disbarred by Mississippi Supreme Court, Effective Immediately
  45. August 1JTRAN Strike Enters Third Week as Federal Mediation in Pearl Ends Without a Deal
  46. August 1Morning Brief: Aug 1 · Wells Autopsy Sealed; Council Pulls Budget Amendment

July 2026

  1. July 31Stokes Moves to Abolish Planning Department, Fold Code Enforcement Into Police
  2. July 30Council Rejects Budget Amendment as Jackson’s Deficit Hits $36 Million
  3. July 29A Block of Empty Apartments on Capitol Street: Owner Pitches JSU Housing After Power Shutoff
  4. July 29Morning Brief: Jul 29 · Hinds County Weighs Millage Hike; Council OKs $24M in Road Work
  5. July 28A $100 Million Development Is Rising in Ridgeland. One Man Is Behind It, and Behind Jackson’s AI Campus Too.
  6. July 27Records Show Jackson Courted No-Bid Vendor 66 Days Before ‘Emergency’ Declaration
  7. July 26Jackson City Council Elects New President After Months of Data Center Turmoil
  8. July 24Madison County Approves $48 Million Conference Center in Ridgeland, Despite Lone Dissent Over Taxpayer Risk
  9. July 21Horhn Says No Lake Hico Data Center in the Works as Federal Judge Questions Water Impact
  10. July 20Vicksburg Residents Protest $3 Billion AWS Data Center Planned Near Elementary School
  11. July 19Interim DA McCullouch Asks State Auditor to Review Owens’ Office
  12. July 18Records Show Horhn Administration Quietly Planned Lake Hico Data Center Hub for Months
  13. July 17Jackson Passes State’s First Data Center Moratorium, 5-2, After Months of Debate
  14. July 17Morning Brief: Jul 17 · Youth Court Overhaul Heads to Reeves; JTRAN Strike Enters Day 5
  15. July 16Banks Rejected a Better Plea Deal. He Would Not Cooperate.
  16. July 15Archie Asks Supreme Court to Speed Up Election Appeal as Governor Leaves District 2 in Limbo
  17. July 15Morning Brief: Jul 15 · Council Passes Data Center Moratorium; JTRAN Strike Enters Day 3
  18. July 14Jackson Seeks $300 Million From DOJ’s Model Cities Initiative, One of Its Largest Federal Grants Ever
  19. July 14Morning Brief: Jul 14 · Council Votes on Data Center Moratorium; JTRAN Strike Enters Day 2
  20. July 13Morning Brief: Jul 13 · JTRAN Strike Begins; Council to Vote on Data Center Moratorium Tuesday
  21. July 12Mississippi Youth Court Law Expired July 1. A Temporary Order Expires This Month. No Permanent Fix Has Passed.
  22. July 12Morning Brief: Jul 12 · JTRAN Strike Set for Monday; Data Center Moratorium Vote Looms Tuesday
  23. July 11JTRAN Workers to Strike Monday After 72-Hour Notice, Leaving Jackson Without Buses
  24. July 11Morning Brief: Jul 11 · Data Center Moratorium Heads to Tuesday Vote; Hinds Election in Limbo
  25. July 10Data Center Moratorium Heads to a Vote. The Council Is Split.
  26. July 10Morning Brief: Jul 10 · Data Center Moratorium Heads to Council Vote; Hinds Special Election Tuesday
  27. July 9What Lumumba Gave Up: Plea Agreement Shows Full Scope of Waivers as Probation Work Begins
  28. July 9Morning Brief: Jul 9 · Data Center Moratorium Heads to Council Vote; CAO Resigns
  29. July 8Residents Packed Two Meetings Monday. They Did Not Ask for a Moratorium. They Asked for a Ban.
  30. July 7Jackson Edges Closer to a Data Center Moratorium After Two Meetings in One Day
  31. July 6Five Guilty Pleas, Five Sentences Coming. What Each Person Faces, and When.
  32. July 6The Bar Moves on Owens’s License. Now Every Conviction He Won Is a Question.
  33. July 6Banks Pleads Guilty. The Jackson Bribery Case Ends Five for Five, With No Trial.
  34. July 6Chokwe Antar Lumumba Pleads Guilty. The Trial Jackson Braced For Dies a Week Early.
  35. July 6Jackson’s Top Administrator Resigns, Leaving a Gap at City Hall
  36. July 6Morning Brief: Jul 6 · Data Center Double-Header Tonight; Fourth Arrest in Triple Homicide
  37. July 5Jackson Council to Vote on Data Center Moratorium at Monday Hearing
  38. July 5New York Spent the Week Rationing Electricity. Jackson Is About to Decide How Much of Its Grid to Sell.
  39. July 5Morning Brief: Jul 5 · Stolen JPD Rifle Used in Triple Homicide; Data Center Hearing Set for Monday
  40. July 5Half of Jackson Believes the Mayor Was Set Up. Here Is the Strongest Version of That Argument.
  41. July 4One Defense Got Harder and One Got Cleaner. Lumumba and Banks After the Owens Plea.
  42. July 4The World Cup Is Within a Day’s Drive of Jackson. Here Is What’s Left, and Who Is Carrying Africa’s Hopes.
  43. July 4Jackson’s Data Center Fight Moves to July 14. Here Is What the Council Is Writing.
  44. July 4Morning Brief: Jul 4 · Airport Trial Lands With Judge; Data Center Fight Heats Up
  45. July 4The Airport Trial Is Over. Judge Reeves Will Decide Who Controls Jackson’s Airport.
  46. July 3Jackson’s Data Center Fight Comes to a Head on July 14
  47. July 2Four Days in July Will Decide Who Runs Jackson
  48. July 1Jody Owens Is Out. Who Runs the Hinds County DA’s Office Now?

June 2026

  1. June 30The Owens Plea Agreement Is Public. Here Is What It Actually Says.
  2. June 30The Best Lawyer in the Room Just Pled Out. Now Lumumba and Banks Are on Their Own.
  3. June 30The DA Who Brokered the Bribes Just Pleaded Guilty. Trial Starts in Two Weeks Without Him.
  4. June 29Jody Owens Pleaded Guilty. What October 15 Looks Like.
  5. June 27Aaron Banks to Feds: You Can’t Bundle My Bribes. Pick ONE.
  6. June 20Jackson Wants Volunteers to Hunt Blight. Finding It Was Never the Problem.
  7. June 20Morning Brief: Jun 20 — Smith Appeal Clouds July 14 Vote; City Centre Sale Collapses
  8. June 19Jackson’s Bus Drivers Voted to Strike. The Real Fight Is Over Shrinking JTRAN.
  9. June 19Morning Brief: Jun 19 — Bus Drivers Eye July Strike; Hinds Election in Limbo
  10. June 16Pretrial Conference Done. Anonymous-Jury Briefing Ordered. Defense Gets Two Extra Strikes.
  11. June 16Morning Brief: Jun 16 — Data Center Vote Nears; Hinds County Election Do-Over
  12. June 16Want to Watch the Jackson Bribery Trial? Here’s How.
  13. June 15Jackson Can’t Keep Its Own Water On. Now They Want to Sell It to a Server Farm.
  14. June 15The Owens Trial Starts July 13. Here’s What Each Side Will Say.
  15. June 15Five Owens Experts in the Crosshairs. A Sealed Withdrawal. Jurors Already Cut.
  16. June 15Morning Brief: Jun 15 — Airport Takeover Trial Opens; Supervisor Vows Appeal
  17. June 15The Loudest Data Center Fight Is in Jackson. The Bigger One Just Got a Green Light by Silence.
  18. June 14The Government Stops Fighting Over the Jury. Trial Still Lands July 13.
  19. June 13Jackson Held a Data Center Forum. The Real Decisions Come June 22 and 24.
  20. June 13The Venue Fight Is Over: Owens, Lumumba and Banks Go to Trial in Jackson
  21. June 10A Judge Threw Out the 2023 Vote. Hinds County District 2 Does It Over July 14.
  22. June 7Meet the DC Lawyer at the Center of Jody Owens’s Defense
  23. June 7Wingate Freezes the State’s Water Takeover Before It Can Start
  24. June 7Jackson Corruption Case Hits the Recording Fight as Trial Date Closes In

May 2026

  1. May 28What the Charge Sheet Tells You About Who Did What
  2. May 28The City Everyone Wrote Off Is Suddenly the Metro’s Top Real Estate Story
  3. May 25Plea Deadline May 29th: Will Banks Plead?
  4. May 25State Street Group Bets on the Office-to-Apartment Playbook Again, This Time in Northeast Jackson
  5. May 25The Lot
  6. May 25The Mayor Who Made One Phone Call
  7. May 25Judge Lets Owens Take His Fight to a Jury
  8. May 25One Investor Just Bought the Heart of Downtown Jackson, and He’s Just Getting Started
  9. May 25Data Centers Are Coming to Metro Jackson, and the Debate Is Heating Up
  10. May 25One Courtroom, Three Defendants, and a Trial That Isn’t What It Looks Like
  11. May 25The Jackson Bribery Case: A Timeline
  12. May 25Republicans Built Bennie Thompson’s “Super-Democratic” District. Now They Want to Burn It Down.