Bingo, again…again?

The Ferriday town council — or at least, three of the members of the town council — have called a meeting to discuss the introduction of an electronic bingo ordinance for Thursday night. Supposedly, they wanted to move the venue to the Arcade Theater to accomodate the expected large number of people in attendance, but DA candidate Andy Magoun will be having a campaign rally there, so the meeting will be at the Ferriday Town Hall as usual.

It’s interesting that three of the members want to revisit the issue so soon after the last public hearing, which was more like a public flaying of the guys who proposed the idea by everyone from ministers to a woman who said she would rather pick cotton on her knees than see bingo in town. What will be more interesting is what they actually do during the meeting — after all, three council members is enough to pass an ordinance.

Edit: After a lot of hemming and hawing and a good deal of public outrage at the meeting, none of the town council members could bring themselves to introduce the motion that would have allowed bingo in. Not only was the meeting a waste of time, but it effectively killed bingo indefinitely.

Keeping an eye on the road (builders)

The city of Natchez recently awarded a road paving bid to Blain company, the same company that the Concordia Parish Police Jury has pending litigation against right now. About a year ago, Blain surfaced some roads for the police jury, but the roads started to crack, buckle and otherwise go to crap just about as soon as the asphalt cooled. The jury sued them, a matter that is still in litigation, and  Blain has recently counter-sued the the police jury.

Meanwhile, Natchez city engineer David Gardner said things are go, and that the city had hired an engineer to keep an eye on things. (see here) 

But Blain and the police jury agree on one thing. Both of their suits name engineer Bryant Hammett, who the jury hired to inspect the roads during construction and sign off on them once they were completed, as a defendent.