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Jack Mazurack never mentions controversial developer Gene Phillips in this story today about TCI’s plans for downtown Jackson, helped along by City Council yesterday. And then there is this:

Danks is an attorney for Small and TCI MS, the Mississippi company created for the development project.

Danks said TCI MS has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Jackson Redevelopment Authority, which lays out the project’s scope and purpose. A more formal development agreement must be signed before Small’s architects finalize designs and locations of each building.

JRA, a quasi-governmental agency that assembles and sells land for economic development, likely will sell the two blocks it owns sometime in September.

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Why don’t you ever write pieces on the current/upcoming trials regarding The Beef Plant and Brown/The MS Dem. Party in Noxubee? How about the Dems accidently getting us the uber racist Voter ID? You question the C-L and WLBT on everything but delete or don’t directly answer the posts that question your journalistic tactics. I do like the way you always revert the Beef Plant to Haley Barbour whenever you do mention it. That’s AWESOME!!!!


Dave, when we do answer you, you don’t like the answers. Thus, going forward, I am not going to feed the troll.


I think Jack is scared of the texas mafia!


I guess Hampton is scared to mention Gene Phillips too. Do they write these editorials before or after happy hour? I’m leaning towards the latter…

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