Ward 6 City Councilman Aaron Banks asked his constituent Ed Coles to stand at a town hall meeting last week at Glory Empowerment Center on Maddox Road.
Read MoreMore than a century before failing infrastructure left Jackson, Mississippi, without running water this summer, thousands of the capital city's residents gathered in a park downtown to celebrate the new water filtration plant that promised to turn the muddy liquid flowing into people’s taps into “clean, pure water.”
Read MoreJackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said Tuesday that the city has had “many, many plans” to fund repairs for its beleaguered drinking water system.
Read MoreJackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said Tuesday the city’s water pressure is seeing improvements thanks to efforts to restore pressure in the system overnight, and that more residents are with water now than yesterday.
Read MoreIn what some may have thought an unusual move, the Mississippi Association of Educators convened a news conference this week to disseminate its recently completed research study and position paper, “Solving the Jackson Water Crisis.”
Read MoreThe treatment chemicals that have been causing repeated boil water notices will continue to be necessary for about a year, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said Monday at a news conference at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant.
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