The City of Jackson is finally paying its bills, at least some of them. Twice the issue has been brought up by members of the ...

The City of Jackson faces a debt of roughly $6.4 million in water bills due to a major water leak at the Jackson Zoological ...

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba has filed three campaign finance reports after failing to do so for the last three years. His last report was filed in 2021, though state law requires them to be ...

Mayor John Horhn is scrapping "The Pulse at Farish Street" — a project unveiled in January under former Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba's administration.

He decisively defeated incumbent Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba by more than 12,000 votes. Lumumba received only 25.25% of the vote, or 6,246 votes as of 10:30 p.m. with all 80 precincts reporting.

The freeze follows two recent hires by Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, including former Hinds County District 2 Supervisor David Archie.

Here’s how Lumumba and Horhn have made their final preparations — and what their message is to Jackson voters ahead of the runoff. Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba Since the April 1 primary, Lumumba ...

MAYOR CHOKWE ANTAR LUMUMBA: Absolutely. So, I moved to Jackson in 1988. I fondly, or not fondly, distinctly remember in 1989 when we had a winter freeze that debilitated our water system.

The mayor also has the authority to remove department directors. While new faces are starting to clock in at City Hall, a few department heads from former Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba’s administration ...

“The question is of those candidates, how many of them align somewhat or close to Lumumba’s ideology relative to Horhn?” Orey said. An even bigger challenge for the mayor’s campaign and his opponent ...

Incumbent Chokwe Antar Lumumba filed qualifying papers at the very last minute on Friday and will face 13 opponents in the Democratic primary. There are also three Republicans and five independents ...