I'm a pretty big Virgi Lindsay fan. Tonight she was gracious enough to come talk to an Elseworks and Midtown Business Association meeting at CS's. Growing up in Jackson, there were about six guys who could tell you everything that was happening anywhere in the city. If you didn't go to church with them, your momma went to high school with them, or they were one of our cousins, and if all that failed, you could go to Dutch Bar or Geroge Street and find one of them to explain whatever you were interested in.
That hasn't been true in a while. Jackson is a very complicated city now. Our water system is under federal receivership, our sewers are under a consent decree with the EPA, policing has been mostly taken over by the state, and the Mayor and the City Council are in a suit with each other that neither side can talk about until there's a hearing.
It used to be that everybody trusted the Mayor, but nobody trusted the City Council. Today, that situation has flipped. Virgi is part of why. Her credibility is pretty high, and you could tell it by how the gathering responded to her. She made me feel better about a number of issues; there is improvement on the horizon, and we just have to dig it out of some of the crap left over from the past few years.
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