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 by Donna Ladd
May 26, 2009
Mayor Frank Melton told the Jackson Free Press in February that he was concerned enough about the costs of lawsuits to him personally that he had set up a blind trust to protect his personal fortune.
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 Also see: Full JFP Melton Blog/Archive/Trial
Former mayoral bodyguard Michael Recio has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for his role in the 2006 demolition of a Ridgeway Street duplex, according to WAPT and a federal attorney with knowledge of the case. Recio was the last remaining…
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by Ward Schaefer
May 13, 2009
Also see: Full JFP Melton Blog/Archive/Trial
The civil rights trial of Jackson police officer Michael Recio will proceed next week, despite requests by federal prosecutors for a postponement after the death of Mayor Frank Melton. Prosecutors…
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May 12, 2009
WAPT will offer a live video stream of the noon memorial for late Jackson Mayor Frank Melton at Thalia Mara Hall.
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May 8, 2009
Mayor Frank Melton's memorial service is scheduled for noon Tuesday, May 12, at Thalia Mara Hall. On Monday, his body will lie in state at City Hall from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Melton's graveside service will take place at the Houston Memorial Gardens…
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 Full JFP Melton Blog and Archive
May 7, 2009
The Associated Press is reporting that Jackson Mayor Frank Melton has died. Shortly before polls closed Tuesday evening around 7 p.m., the mayor went into cardiac arrest at his…
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 by Donna Ladd
May 6, 2009
In an emergency meeting held at 4 p.m. today, the Jackson City Council voted 5-to-1 to appoint Ward 2 Councilman Leslie McLemore as interim mayor after Mayor Frank Melton succumbed to cardiac arrest just as the primary polls closed Tuesday…
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Verbatim:
NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE
TYPE OF MEETING SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING
CALLED BY Councilman McLemore
PLACE Council Chambers
SUBJECT 1- Emergency Meeting of the City Council (Acting Mayor)
TIME AND DATE Wednesday, May…
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 by Donna Ladd and Ward Schaefer
May 5, 2009
The JFP's Full Archive of Frank Melton Coverage
The JFP's 2009 City Election Coverage
UPDATE 12:10 P.M.: City spokeswoman Goldia Revies has released the following statement: "Mayor Frank E. Melton is…
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May 5, 2009—WAPT and other sources are reporting that Mayor Frank Melton is en route to St. Dominic in an ambulance. May be in cardiac arrest; "unresponsive," according to scanners and sources.
Update: Sources are telling WAPT that he was in full cardiac arrest when the ambulance…
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May 4, 2009
Burglars broke into the State Street campaign headquarters for incumbent Jackson Mayor Frank Melton early Saturday morning, reports WAPT, stealing a computer and a TV.
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by Ward Schaefer
May 1, 2009
A federal judge has denied the latest attempt to separate the civil rights trial of Mayor Frank Melton and his former bodyguard Michael Recio. In an order (PDF) filed today, Judge Dan Jordan ruled that Recio’s attorney Cynthia Stewart…
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by Ward Schaefer
April 28, 2009
Also see: Full JFP Melton Blog/Archive/Trial
A federal judge will hear arguments today on whether to hold separate trials for Mayor Frank Melton and his former police bodyguard Michael Recio. Melton and Recio are under federal…
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 by Adam Lynch
April 22, 2009
The city is forking out big money for illegal business closings, but not nearly as much as it could be. Deputy City Attorney Pieter Teuwissen told City Council Monday afternoon that the city had managed to talk down damages regarding…
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by Ward Schaefer
April 15, 2009
The federal government will take up the burden of Michael Recio’s mounting legal expenses. Cynthia Stewart, Recio’s attorney, requested that the court appoint her as a public defender, and yesterday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda Anderson granted her request. Recio is…
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Ridgeway Duplex #10
Damage to a duplex on Ridgeway Street in Jackson after Mayor Frank E. Melton and associates allegedly entered the building with sledgehammers and other tools.
(Photo by Adam Lynch.)
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Read Adam Lynch's breaking story that first revealed Mayor Frank Melton's Aug. 26 alleged rampage on Ridgeway Street in Jackson—the accusations that led to felony indictions of Melton and his bodyguards two weeks later on Sept. 15. Adam's story first appeared the afternoon of Sept. 1, 2006. You can…
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JFP Editor Donna Ladd writes about Mayor Frank Melton's shenanigans for Reason Magazine. The piece starts:
Last September, my newspaper reported that on August 26, 2006, Jackson, Mississippi Mayor Frank Melton had taken an entourage of police officers and teenagers (some with criminal records) to a…
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by Donna Ladd
May 13, 2009
Mayor Frank Melton and I disagreed on many things, especially the way he ran the city and his style of “crime-fighting,” but we met in the middle on a few things.
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by Adam Lynch
June 24, 2009
During a June 16 City Council meeting, the council voted—without issue or debate—to pay the late Mayor Frank Melton’s $37,500 attorney fee in connection with his federal trial for demolishing a home on Ridgeway Street. Stokes, who was a witness…
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 by Donna Ladd
April 29, 2009
It’s déjà vu all over again. Four years ago this week, I was writing a column calling for—no, begging—Jacksonians not to vote for Frank Melton as mayor in the Democratic primary. I had spent several months researching, reporting, following, tracking,…
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Jul 03, 2009Sarah Palin to Step Down as First-term Governor
Tom Head: I don't know that I'd put any credence in this, but BradBlog is bringing out rumors of a federal embezzlement indictment--that would indeed center on the "house Todd built ...
Jul 03, 2009
Mississippi No. 1 in Obesity, Again
Lady Havoc: Yep. And probably half these kids will be diagnosed with diabetes before they graduate high school.
Jeff, please be careful with this. Our daughter, who is 10 and is in no way ...
Jul 03, 2009
Bold ‘New’ City
L.W.: Thanks for the WAPT link because I missed the report. There is a tinge of doom and gloom in the report, but I still have hope. The economy is cyclical, so the recession will not last forever. There will be a ...
Jul 03, 2009
Sarah Palin to Step Down as First-term Governor
L.W.: Is it the house her husband built himself? [...with a little help from his contractor friend (who was coincidentally awarded the Wasilla sports complex project)...]
Have been ...
Jul 03, 2009
Sarah Palin to Step Down as First-term Governor
Macedonian: I wonder if her resignation has anything to do with this 7/1 post at The Atlantic which IMHO pretty much nails it!!!
"The Core Of Palin's Appeal
A reader writes:
Part of ...
Jul 03, 2009
Sarah Palin to Step Down as First-term Governor
BubbaT: Heard some political type on NPR talking eariler that she has done the same thing before. When she lost her bid for Lt. Gov. in 2002 she was appointed to the cushy job as ...
Jul 03, 2009
'I Just Have to Type My Thoughts Out'
ladd:
Test. YMP is in the house. Almost.
Jul 03, 2009
Bold ‘New’ City
NewJackson: thanks pop for your response, i do have a story my grandmother used to live on pearl street back in the late 80's when i was a little boy right beside the blues lounge where the marker is now. As a little ...
Jul 03, 2009
Sarah Palin to Step Down as First-term Governor
pjiv: Is it the house her husband built himself? [...with a little help from his contractor friend (who was coincidentally awarded the Wasilla sports complex project)...]
Have been ...
Jul 03, 2009
[Editor's Note] Death of Affirmative Action?
baquan2000: Goldenea - you had me at hello! You had me at Hello!
Say it again! "Why should fixing something be equal, when breaking it was not!"
Hello!!!!! Ding ding ding ding, someone ...