My Hattiesburg

Friday News Discussion Roundup

Although the events that have taken place this week are really nothing you didn’t see coming, the fight for a crime-free Hattiesburg has come to a screeching halt. Here are some of the news discussions that have taken place this week. You can just see the progression all the way to the final commentary by Johnny Dupree putting all speculation about Chief Wynn’s resignation to rest. It seems in Hattiesburg, that the buck really does stop at Dupree.

• In an effort to change the council in his favor, Fairley and crew filed a lawsuit against Hattiesburg.
• This was closely followed by the Hattiesburg American calling for the mayor to make a decision on Wynn.
• A letter by a former HPD officer was also published by the Hattiesburg American stating that race was not an issue.
• The next day, WDAM reported that a federal grand jury has re-indicted eight people in a mortgage flipping scheme, with one addition, Kenneth Fairley Jr. Also included is Kenneth Fairley’s brother, Vaston.
• The same day, Jim Cameron shared his viewpoint on this situation. He effectively voiced the opinions of many MH members.
• Kim Bradley opened a lot of people’s eyes to the fact that the Chief Administrative Officer has absolute power over city directors in the absence of the mayor, which is a lot of power given to a non-elected position.
• With all the pressure from the media and citizens of Hattiesburg, this prompted Wynn to call a press conference on Thursday morning in which Dupree informed everyone that Wynn is here to stay.
• This was closely followed-up by a rebuttal to Jim Cameron’s viewpoint in which he reminds everyone that he is the mayor of Hattiesburg.

It’s been a depressing week for the opponents of Chief Wynn. The one hope that the group has left is the lawsuit being brought against Johnny Dupree to submit his department heads. If this is successful, then Wynn will most likely not be approved.

Of course, I don’t want it to seem like everything is bad in Hattiesburg this week. The Independent announced it is ceasing operations of it’s newspaper to move on to bigger and better things with it’s new magazine called South Mississippi Scene.

With July 4th coming up, one of our members has posted all the Independence Day events in and around the Pine Belt. That’s going to wrap it up for this week, thanks for visiting and Happy July 4th!

What’s going on at My Hattiesburg

Interesting conversations that are taking place in our news forums

• Hattiesburg Police respond to a man being beaten
• Police chief calls former officers racist
• $1 Million Cocaine Bust Made in Lamar County
• Should schools ban soft drink sales?
• “Somebody Wanted them Dead”
• Olive Garden Finally Going up…
• City Hall broken into

Additions to the site

• A Hurricanes and Tropical Storms forum has been added to discuss the predicted upcoming busy storm season in the Gulf of Mexico.
• We’ve added a listing of auto dealer web sites that offer their inventory of Hattiesburg used cars on their web sites.

We’re also discussing a holding a football fantasy league contest over in the vBookie forums, if your a huge football fan, you don’t want to miss this one.

Also note that there is a Lamar County burn ban in effect. The link will take you to a current discussion about whether fireworks are included in this ban or not.

Hattiesburg news this week

It’s been an eventful week in Hattiesburg news forum with several new developments taking place. Most of the headline news in Hattiesburg this week had to deal with the continuing Dupree/City Council controversy involving Dupree’s department heads.  Read some of these forum threads for more.

City Council Files Law Suit Against Dupree!

Fire Chief Jim Fiero resigns

Regions Bank and AmSouth to Merge

Delgado Says Citizens of Hattiesburg Used to Controversy

Today’s HA Editorial Wants Everyone to Kiss and Makeup