For years, Mississippi’s capital city has battled a reputation as a place of blight, corruption and high crime.
Now, Jackson officials say they have enlisted help to upgrade public perception of the state’s biggest city. A local advertising firm, Fahrenheit Creative Group, has been hired in a $45,000 contract, to create better vibes for Jackson.
City Council President Tony Yarber tells the Clarion-Ledger that he’s frustrated by the negative perceptions.
Critics argue the perceptions are based in realties: crime is a serious problem in many areas of Jackson, boarded-up homes can be found in even more affluent neighborhoods and politics is widely seen as more theater than a serious exercise in good-government.
via Jackson hires firm to help improve city’s image | Hattiesburg American | hattiesburgamerican.com.
They could start by telling Bryant and the anti-choice legislators to support women’s rights instead of tying to deny them access to legal health care to which they are legally entitled. The government efforts to shut down the Jackson Women’s Health clinic make ya’ll a sad and tragic laughingstock, nationwide.
Critics are right. Jackson has made national and even international news over that mess with the clinic, and the rest of the shenanigans our reps and senators were pulling. I even read a German article about it, and the comments pretty much all were wondering what the heck was wrong with us. The world will take us a lot more seriously if our “supporting life” includes the folks who are already breathing, and we won’t reduce our infant mortality rates as long as we’re fighting tooth and nail against expanding healthcare.
It’s only newsworthy because the liberals are trying toast a negative light on Mississippi. We aren’t the first state to make these safety reforms. From my understanding, the abortion clinic’s entire legal strategy is based upon Tate Reeve’s statement that the legislation would make abortion a thing of the past in Mississippi. I have a serious distrust of that man, especially on social issues.