Mayoral Candidate Regina Quinn Praises 'Hal's St. Paddy's Parade'
We just received this press release, verbatim, expressing sympathy for the death of Hal White. I post it below without further comment: PRESS ALERT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 29, 2013 Jackson suffered a major loss yesterday in the passing of Hal White, a business owner and a founder to the ...
Mayoral Debate Streamed Live April 30
The League of Women Voters of the Jackson Area is partnering with The Clarion-Ledger, WAPT-Channel 16, and the Mississippi College School of Law for a Jackson mayoral candidate debate. Stephanie Maxwell from WAPT and Sam Hall from the C-L will moderate. Because of the time and space constraints of live ...
Quinn Campaign Fires Back On New Crime Stats
In a response to a release from the city yesterday citing decreasing crime numbers you can read about here, the campaign to elect Regina Quinn put out this press release Thursday afternoon: "Today the Jackson Police Department released statistics stating that overall crime is down 16.2%. As of December 2012, ...
Mayoral Candidate Chokwe Lumumba's Campaign Finance Report
The Committee to Elect Chokwe Lumumba, Jackson mayoral candidate Chokwe Lumumba's political action committee, shared its first campaign finance report with the Jackson Free Press this morning. The report, which you can see here, was filed almost two full months late. But it is just the fourth report filed by ...
DOR Not Coming to Downtown Jackson
The Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration, which oversees the operation of state buildings, has recommended the former Worldcom Building in Clinton as the permanent home for the Department of Revenue, now housed in what's practically a shed, also in Clinton. Downtown Jackson had been a front-runner for agency HQ, ...
Jackson City Council Passes $12 Million Bond For Repaving Roads
In what could be seen as a win for Jackson Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr., the Jackson City Council voted this afternoon to approve his proposed $12 million bond to repave major thoroughfares throughout the city. The city council voted 3-1 in favor of the measure, with Ward 2 Councilman and ...
Women For Progress: Why Women Should Run
The progressive group Women For Progress held their bi-annual meeting at the Old Capitol Inn Friday, and the guest list looked like a who's who of women running for municipal office in Jackson. Most notably, mayoral candidate Regina Quinn and city council candidates June Hardwick (Ward 7) and Fran Bridges ...
Update: Secretary of State Validates Quinn Campaign's Incorporation
The office of Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann's office has responded to a request by the JFP to clarify the legal status of a campaign for municipal office being incorporated as a non-profit organization. In response to the question "Can a campaign set up as a unincorporated nonprofit corporation?" the ...
Musgrove Declares Himself a LGBT Ally
First there was Bill Clinton. Then there was Barack Obama. Then came Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Now there's former Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove. OK, maybe not in that exact order, but all of these elected officials eventually evolved to become–for lack of a ...
My First Encounter with Chokwe Lumumba
Ha. I was just doing research on mayoral candidates and found this piece I wrote about now-mayoral candidate Chokwe Lumumba when the JFP was all of about two weeks old. My (white) photographer Jaro Vacek and I showed up to cover this meeting and were not treated very well. It ...
Regina Quinn's 2012 campaign finance report
The campaign to elect Regina Quinn mayor of Jackson has sent over a copy of the campaign finance report it plans to file for 2012. You can read it here. Quinn's biggest supporter is her husband John May Jr., who gave $25,966 over a six month period. The report does ...
Update: Secretary of State's Office Looking Into Quinn's Campaign Financial Setup
As we noted in Tuesday's story on campaign finance reform, mayoral candidate Regina Quinn did not file a campaign finance report by the Jan. 31, 2013 deadline. This means one of two things -- either she is either in violation of Mississippi sunshine laws regarding campaign finance transparency, or she ...
What are your questions for mayoral candidates? Help us with interviews!
Here at the JFP, we are going into the final push of the city election season before the primaries on May 7. We are still finishing mayoral candidates' JFP interviews (with the goal of doing one for each of them!) and we will be doing additional endorsement interviews with the ...
Death Penalty Repeal Assured in Maryland
On March 15, the Maryland House of Delegates decisively passed (82-56) a bill that would replace the death penalty with life without parole.
Voter ID in Tennessee Reveals Shortfalls
Many people don't have the photo IDs required under the new laws.