Jackson faces many of the same issues it did 10 years ago, including youth crime, lack of economic development and failing infrastructure, according to testimony Mayor John Horhn and state officials gave Wednesday to a House committee.
The stuck-in-amber nature of Mississippi’s capital city was highlighted by a moment when Rep. Chris Bell, a Democratic lawmaker from Jackson who sits on the Capital City Revitalization Committee, asked Horhn about a state-funded study on gangs.
The 2016 study, paid for with $500,000 in funding Horhn secured while senator, found in part that Jackson’s gangs were mainly neighborhood cliques of young adult men…