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The former director of planning and development will serve as the new Public Works director.

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba attributed the city's water shortage to a lack of maintenance over the last few decades.

It’s now been 28 days since Jackson’s boil water alert was issued on July 29, 2022. There is no end in sight. This has been one of the most colossal municipal government failures in the history of our country.

Jackson, Mississippi is under a boil water advisory due to high levels of turbidity. Residents have been advised to boil their water before usage.

tag Early in 2020, the city of Jackson received a Leadership in Community Resilience grant from NLC to design and activate its Heat Preparedness Plan. Through a series of targeted interviews, surveys, and focus groups with frontline residents, the team set out to better understand how Jackson’s most at-risk residents perceive the dangers of extreme heat, and how they typically prepare for these often-life-threatening events. Although it is now winter across much of the US and the worst of the summer heat has subsided, it is easy to forget that 2020 was a record-breaking year for extreme hea...