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JXN Restaurant Week Promotes the City’s Culinary Landscape
Visit Jackson has organized a week-long series of themed events named JXN Restaurant Week to highlight Jackson’s culinary Landscape.
Aliyah Veal
February 22, 2024
Visit Jackson has organized a week-long series of themed events named JXN Restaurant Week to highlight Jackson’s culinary Landscape.
Brad “Kamikaze” Franklin writes that Jacksonians and lawmakers should just name the racist tendencies within the Mississippi Legislature thatHouse Bill 1020 reveals. “We know that you don’t like that Black people are running the capital city (at least not the kind of Black people you prefer), and we know you’re dead set on changing that by whatever means, legislative or otherwise, you can,” he writes.
HR 3339, a current bill in Congress, would create a $5-trillion National Infrastructure Bank to finance projects that federal, state and local governments cannot. This plan would allow Mississippi to receive up to $47 billion over 10 years to cover all infrastructure improvements, including roads, bridges, levees and dams, affordable housing, public transport and more, Alphecca Muttardy writes.
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