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General News
Morning Brief: Sep 13 · Water Bills Headed Up Again as JXN Water Eyes 10% Hike
September 13, 2026 · 3 min read
JXN Water plans another rate hike in 2027: A 30-page financial management plan filed in U.S. District Court in August puts a 10% water rate increase on the table for spring 2027, the Clarion-Ledger reported. That follows…
Economy
JXN Water’s Own Math Says Selling the System Saves $1.4M a Year. The Rate Hikes Are the Real Story.
September 10, 2026 · 4 min read
The most consequential number in JXN Water’s August financial plan is not the 10 percent rate increase it wants next spring. It is $120.8 million, the amount the plan says it would take to retire all outstanding debt on…
General News
Morning Brief: Aug 5 · JTRAN Strike Drags Into Week Four; JXN Water Collections Top $8.3M
August 5, 2026 · 3 min read
JXN Water collections top $8.3M a month: Monthly collections averaged $8.3 million in the second quarter of 2026, interim third-party manager Ted Henifin reported, a roughly 116 percent increase since the utility took…
General News
Stokes Softens His Water Demands: A Seat at the Table, Not the Keys
September 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Horhn said the city and JXN Water have selected the same engineering firm to help build the transition plan. Whatever structure emerges goes to Wingate for approval. Only the judge can decide who runs Jackson’s water and…
Economy
JXN Water Files Plan Calling for Another 10% Rate Hike Next Spring
August 23, 2026 · 3 min read
…something called “acquisition financing,” which would occur if a new JXN Water entity buys the system’s assets from the city and allows Jackson to pay off its existing water and sewer debt.
Politics
Horhn Says No Lake Hico Data Center in the Works as Federal Judge Questions Water Impact
July 21, 2026 · 3 min read
…concern about what a potential data center project could mean for JXN Water, the federally mandated water system that has been under court supervision since 2022. The judge’s remarks suggest the project could face legal…
Development
We Read Amazon’s 45-Page Water Contract With Ridgeland. Here Is What It Actually Says About Jackson.
September 18, 2026 · 8 min read
Now the Jackson part, which the contract states plainly. Wastewater generated by the project, the agreement says, will be discharged into a new city gravity sewer main and conveyed to the interceptor system operated by…
Politics
Wingate Freezes the State’s Water Takeover Before It Can Start
June 7, 2026 · 3 min read
…failing systems. That manager, Ted Henifin, and his organization, JXN Water, have run day-to-day operations since. “When a federal court takes control of property through a receivership, it draws to itself the sole power…
General News
A Mississippi Commissioner Wants to Let SNAP Benefits Pay Water Bills
August 31, 2026 · 2 min read
The timing matters. JXN Water filed a plan calling for another 10 percent rate hike next spring, a story The Wire covered last week. That would come on top of the increases already layered in since the federal takeover…
Development
Jackson’s Own Consultant Warned Data Centers Strain a Water System Under Federal Control
August 18, 2026 · 4 min read
Water is the crux. The consultants wrote that water is one of the most consequential issues for data centers and the one most directly connected to Jackson’s vulnerabilities. They cautioned that introducing a high-demand…
Real Estate
Homeward JXN Launches This Month With a $3.7 Million Gap and Landlords It Hasn’t Recruited
September 6, 2026 · 4 min read
Homeward JXN is set to begin this month, and the math behind it is not settled. The program aims to move 300 chronically homeless people into rent-free housing over 24 months, plus provide rapid response for another…
Politics
Jackson Should Say No to Data Centers. Here Is Every Argument for Them, and Why Each One Fails.
September 16, 2026 · 8 min read
…all in this city. Jackson is not a place with spare golf courses of water. This is the city whose treatment plant failed in the summer of 2022 and left 150,000 people without safe drinking water; whose system was taken…
General News
Morning Brief: Sep 16 · Data Center Convening Closes as Counties Ask Who Pays
September 16, 2026 · 3 min read
JXN Water plan pairs 10% rate hike with a sale proposal: A 30-page financial management plan JXN Water filed in federal court in August calls for a 10% rate increase in spring 2027, following the roughly 12% hike that…
General News
Morning Brief: Aug 7 · Budget Hearings Open Monday; State to Raze Virginia College
August 7, 2026 · 3 min read
PSC swaps water aid for charity: The Mississippi Public Service Commission voted Tuesday to replace a resolution calling for a permanent federal water assistance program with one urging churches, businesses and neighbors…
General News
Morning Brief: Jul 15 · Council Passes Data Center Moratorium; JTRAN Strike Enters Day 3
July 15, 2026 · 3 min read
Extreme heat persists as JXN Water reaches compliance milestone: The National Weather Service has Jackson under a heat advisory through midweek, with heat indices expected to reach 105 to 110 degrees. The dangerous…
General News
Morning Brief: Jul 6 · Data Center Double-Header Tonight; Fourth Arrest in Triple Homicide
July 6, 2026 · 3 min read
JXN Water hits federal lead standard for first time: The court-appointed utility reached full compliance with the federal Lead and Copper Rule in 2026, the first time Jackson’s water system has met that standard in…
General News
Morning Brief: Oct 4 · City’s ERP Bid Closes Tuesday; Hinds Budget Lands Monday
October 4, 2026 · 3 min read
JXN Water signals another rate hike in 2027: A 30-page financial management plan JXN Water filed in August in U.S. District Court outlines a 10% rate increase planned for spring 2027, the Clarion Ledger reported,…
General News
Morning Brief: Sep 1 · Budget Vote Lands Amid $30M Shortfall
September 1, 2026 · 3 min read
Water governance fight takes shape: The council’s August 25 resolution seeking a seat at the table for Jackson’s post-JXN Water transition is now the city’s clearest position on the system’s future, and Mayor John Horhn…
General News
Morning Brief: Aug 21 · Flats at Fondren Breaks Ground; Council Meets Today
August 21, 2026 · 3 min read
Tap tests show system improved: The Clarion Ledger’s 2026 water testing across 16 Jackson sites found no E. coli in any sample, a marked improvement from the 2022 crisis, though one sample tested positive for total…
General News
Morning Brief: Aug 11 · Budget Hearings Enter Day Two
August 11, 2026 · 3 min read
JXN Water rate hike now on bills: Jackson water customers have been paying roughly 11.7 percent more on their bills since March, when federal Judge Henry Wingate approved the rate adjustment sought by interim manager Ted…
General News
Morning Brief: Aug 10 · Budget Hearings Open Amid Deficit Fight
August 10, 2026 · 3 min read
JXN Water seeks outside-city rate hike: JXN Water’s Q2 report, filed July 31, shows local revenue now covers operating expenses but still leaves an average monthly shortfall of $665,172.54 against debt service. The…
General News
Morning Brief: Aug 9 · Person of Interest Held in Fortune Death; Budget Hearings Open Monday
August 9, 2026 · 3 min read
JXN Water hosts quarterly meeting, seeks pipeline bids: JXN Water holds its quarterly community meeting Saturday at its Summit Office on Greymont Avenue, offering the latest water quality report and a priority projects…
General News
Morning Brief: Aug 8 · Budget Hearings Open Monday Amid $36M Deficit Fight
August 8, 2026 · 3 min read
JXN Water holds quarterly meeting today: The court-appointed water utility hosts its quarterly community meeting Saturday at 8 a.m. at the Summit Office on Greymont Avenue, with breakfast, coffee, the latest water…
General News
Morning Brief: Jul 10 · Data Center Moratorium Heads to Council Vote; Hinds Special Election Tuesday
July 10, 2026 · 3 min read
New water tests show improvement, lingering concerns: The Clarion Ledger tested tap water from 16 sites across Jackson nearly four years after the 2022 water crisis and found no widespread contamination, but results…
General News
Morning Brief: Jul 9 · Data Center Moratorium Heads to Council Vote; CAO Resigns
July 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Clarion Ledger water tests show improvement, lingering pipe concerns: Four years after Jackson’s water crisis, the Clarion Ledger retested tap water at 16 sites across the city and found no E. coli in any sample, a…
General News
Morning Brief: Jun 19 — Bus Drivers Eye July Strike; Hinds Election in Limbo
June 19, 2026 · 3 min read
4,100 water customers still on 1980s rates: About 4,100 JXN Water customers living more than a mile outside Jackson are still paying water rates set more than 40 years ago, a gap city leaders want closed. The City…
General News
Morning Brief: Oct 6 · Landfill Fee Hike Lands as Refinery Lands $502M
October 6, 2026 · 3 min read
JXN Water agrees to take $200,000 of $423,000: A receiver filed a motion Friday to settle JXN Water’s suit against Blossom Apartments LLC, saying the utility will accept $200,000 of the more than $423,000 in back…
General News
Morning Brief: Sep 11 · Council Votes on Budget Today as Reserves Eyed
September 11, 2026 · 3 min read
JXN Water eyes 10 percent hike, sale: JXN Water’s August financial management plan, filed in U.S. District Court, calls for a 10 percent rate increase in spring 2027, followed by 9 percent in 2028 and 8 percent in 2029,…
General News
Morning Brief: Aug 13 · Public Safety Budgets on the Table Today
August 13, 2026 · 3 min read
Water tests show system gains, pipe caveats: The Clarion Ledger’s follow-up testing of Jackson tap water at 16 sites, nearly four years after the 2022 crisis, found no E. coli in any sample and just one total coliform…
General News
A Collapsed Line in Belhaven Gets the City’s Emergency Treatment
September 4, 2026 · 3 min read
The JXN Water quarterly reports filed with the federal court catalogue the scale of the problem. In a single quarter this year the utility logged sanitary sewer overflows caused by collapsed pipes and defective…
General News
Morning Brief: Aug 6 · Homicides Projected Near 92; JTRAN Talks Stall
August 6, 2026 · 3 min read
JXN Water hosts quarterly meeting Saturday: The utility will hold its quarterly community meeting Aug. 8 at the Summit Office on Greymont Avenue, with breakfast and coffee provided and customer care representatives on…
General News
Morning Brief: Jul 5 · Stolen JPD Rifle Used in Triple Homicide; Data Center Hearing Set for Monday
July 5, 2026 · 3 min read
…at 9.69 inches. The heavy rainfall contributed to multiple boil-water notices in early July, including advisories on Tiki Lane, Dalton Street, Old Canton Road and Linden Place affecting roughly 100 connections combined.…
General News
Morning Brief: Jun 16 — Data Center Vote Nears; Hinds County Election Do-Over
June 16, 2026 · 3 min read
4,100 water customers, 1980s rates: About 4,100 JXN Water customers who live more than a mile outside Jackson have paid essentially the same rates they did 40 years ago, WLBT reported. In May, the City Council…
General News
Morning Brief: Sep 15 · Data Center Convening Opens as Jackson’s Own Rules Still Unwritten
September 15, 2026 · 3 min read
Water plan floats selling the system: JXN Water’s 30-page financial management plan, filed in August in federal court, calls for a 10% rate increase in spring 2027, following the roughly 12% hike that took effect in…
General News
Morning Brief: Sep 3 · Council Sets Tax Levy Today; Jazz Great Wilson Dies
September 3, 2026 · 3 min read
JXN Water seeks 10% hike in 2027: JXN Water interim manager Ted Henifin filed a financial management plan with the U.S. District Court calling for another 10 percent rate increase in spring 2027, on top of the roughly 12…
General News
Morning Brief: Aug 17 · Library Donation Offer Tests Budget; Zoning Council Meets Today
August 17, 2026 · 2 min read
JXN Water collections top $8.3M a month: JXN Water’s monthly collections averaged $8.3 million in the second quarter of 2026, a roughly 116% increase since the utility took over billing in late 2023, interim manager Ted…
General News
Morning Brief: Aug 15 · JPD Chief Warns $5M Cut Hits Staffing
August 15, 2026 · 2 min read
JXN Water collections top $8.3M a month: JXN Water’s monthly collections averaged $8.3 million in the second quarter of 2026, a roughly 116% increase from the first three months after the utility took over billing in…