![]() MICHAEL GUEST, a white Republican who represents part of Jackson, and his Black Democratic challenger, SHUWASKI YOUNG, who noted on Twitter that Guest voted last year against the bipartisan infrastructure bill that included $55 billion for water systems. On the campaign trail, a spat erupted between Rep. Each has held separate news conferences throughout the crisis, and Jackson’s city council president told CNN on Wednesday night that he wasn’t sure the two men had directly spoken. The situation has been compounded by apparent tensions between Lumumba, a Black Democrat, and the Mississippi state government headed by Gov. And as Hannah puts it, “Jackson’s water system has repeatedly landed on the federal government’s radar, from fault-finding inspections to consent decrees and as a focus of the Biden administration’s environmental justice push.” Our Hannah Northey reports that officials have “pinned Jackson’s current water woes on a combination of flooding, shifting chemistry, long-standing infrastructure problems and staffing shortages, but they offered few details on when conditions would improve.”Įven before the flooding, the city was already under a boil-water notice after the state health department found issues in one of the city’s water treatment plants. On Wednesday, Biden called Jackson Mayor CHOKWE ANTAR LUMUMBA and offered help just hours after declaring a federal emergency, allowing agencies to surge resources into the stricken city. As with Hurricanes Katrina and Harvey, as well as the water crisis in Flint, Mich., majority-Black communities are left bearing the brunt of the dysfunction - not just during a crisis, but for years before and after. There’s no clear end in sight to the crisis in Jackson, Miss., which was sparked by record rainfall that flooded the Pearl River but is rooted in much more persistent issues of public disinvestment, political neglect and racial inequity. | Brad Vest/Getty ImagesĬRISIS IN MISSISSIPPI - While Washington chews on headlines about President JOE BIDEN’s pre-midterm road blitz and former President DONALD TRUMP’s legal jeopardy, an American city of more than 150,000 people is struggling to deliver clean drinking water to its residents. I take that to heart when I write because I write something I can always be proud of no matter how small or trivial.A man helps hand out cases of bottled water at a distribution site in Jackson, Miss., on Wednesday, Aug. My favorite quote is one by Cyril Connolly "Better to write for yourself and have no public then write for the public and have no self." I have always wanted to be an author when I grow up and if I were to tell you all the titles of the books on my bedside right now… there would be too many. When I am happiest is when I am in a small space alone with my laptop to write or read on. I am a messy person and the title of a book about me would be called A Peek in the Mind of a Spaz and a Serial Procrastinator. ![]() If not I would throw a tantrum and refuse to get dressed. When I was little my favorite outfits were the dresses you wore to Sunday on special days with the frills and lace, Mary Jane's, and the white socks with the frills at the end. My family is a mix of peace loving hippies, non-strict carefree parenting, over-mommying and punk rock 90's grunge with guns and liberal values thrown in. My name is Gigi, and it’s not my real name, just a nickname.
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