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The meeting comes one week after the City of Jackson announced JTRAN bus services was to be temporarily shut-down after workers with the ATU, or Amalgamated Transit Union, local 1208 went on strike.
The 2025 mayoral election in Jackson, Mississippi will take place on June 3, 2025, alongside other Jackson municipal races. Primary elections will take place on May 6. Incumbent Democratic mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is eligible to run for re-election to a third term in office.
More details about the City of Jackson's plan to fight an order to return Smith-Wills Stadium to the state came to light during a Tuesday meeting of the Jackson City Council, with some members ...
Jackson is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi.Along with Raymond, Jackson is one of two county seats for Hinds County.The city had a population of 153,701 at the 2020 census, a significant decline from 173,514, or 11.42%, since the 2010 census, representing the largest decline in population during the decade of any major U.S. city. [4]
During the American Civil War, the building was used as a hospital and was left standing by Federal troops despite heavy damage inflicted on other buildings throughout Jackson. [3] Speculation was that General Sherman , a Freemason , spared the building because it housed a Masonic Lodge , though a more likely reason is that it housed an army ...
After a 6-0 vote ordering the demolition of the Hotel O, Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes smiled and said: "Thank god," he told reporters after the Jackson City Council's Tuesday meeting.
The Jackson City Council will convene on Monday to order a special election for the now vacant Ward 2 council seat. Announced Friday afternoon, it is the first step in the process to hold a ...
Charles Tillman (born 1932/1933) [1] is an American politician who served on the Jackson, Mississippi City council for twelve years and as acting mayor after the death of Chokwe Lumumba, becoming the 5th consecutive African-American mayor of the city.