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The Vaiden Board of Alderman holds their monthly meetings on the first Monday of the month starting at 6 p.m. at the Vaiden City Hall building.
Monday, Feb. 2 the Vaiden Board of Alderman held their regularly scheduled monthly meeting. Much business was discussed in the roughly hour and a half duration of the meeting. The main topic of discussion during the meeting was regarding the town’s recovery efforts and damage resulting from Winter Storm Fern. The Board also heard concerns from community members in reference to the town’s water system and recent outages resulting from the storm. The details on these issues are as follows.
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Carroll County will be celebrating America’s 250th birthday all year with events scattered around the county. Representing some of the planned events are (from left) Pam Lee, Carrollton Pilgrimage Board; Snooky Lee, Antiquities Society; Cathy Whitfield, DAR Third Arrow Chapter; Betty Downs, Cherokee Rose Garden Club; and Kenny Downs, Cotesworth Center. The banner has been purchased by the Antiquities Society to be used at celebration events in the county. Watch The Conservative, the Visit Carroll Facebook page and VisitCarroll.org for event details as they are announced.
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Pictured from left: Cathy Youngblood, Kathy Sewell, Dusti Kelly, FNP-C, Dr. Joseph Roberts, MD, Angelia Edwards, and Sandy Pigg.
The town of North Carrollton welcomed Dusti Youngblood Kelly, FNP-C, at the clinic located at 502 George St., on Wednesday.
The clinic, which opened Feb. 11, will operate Wednesdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. An open house was held on Saturday, Feb 7.
"We appreciate them being here to provide healthcare needs for this area. This has always been a great location here in town, and we welcome Dusti and her staff," Mayor Ken Strachan said.
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Spartan Composites specializes in advanced composite matting used in the infrastructure, oil and gas, defense and utility sectors. Their Lee County operations will create 45 jobs.
The Mississippi Development Authority announced Tuesday that Spartan Composites, an advanced composite access mat manufacturer, is locating operations in Saltillo and creating 45 jobs with a corporate investment of $49 million.
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The vast majority of states across the U.S. now allow some form of high school NIL.
A bill that would have allowed Mississippi high school student-athletes to accept Name, Image and Likeness, or NIL, money or benefits quietly died in the House of Representatives last week.
Legislation filed by State Rep. Jeffery Harness (D) titled the “Mississippi High School Student-Athlete NIL Protection Act” died the House Judiciary A Committee on deadline day.
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Below is an opinion column by Samuel Gonzalez, Harry Williams, Thomas Waller, & JD Woodward:
Educational freedom is not about rejecting public education. It is about honoring the American belief that individuals flourish when given choice, responsibility, and opportunity.
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Both bills aim to provide Mississippi’s students with valuable lessons in money management and how their government operates.
The Mississippi Senate passed two education bills late last week that aim to increase young people’s knowledge of finances and civics.
The J.P. Wilemon Jr. Financial Literacy Act, also known as SB 2483, would require all high school students to complete a half Carnegie unit course on financial literacy in order to graduate.
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“This is the only game in town, this is the only vehicle for PBM reform,” State Rep. Hank Zuber stated while explaining the bill to the House. “The Senate, for whatever reason, does not have a bill.”
The Mississippi House of Representatives passed a Pharmacy Benefit Manager reform bill on the floor last week.
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Before near-record crop yields were harvested by U.S. farmers, the seed, plants and soil had received major scientific attention in laboratories located on an obscure country road in rural Washington County, Mississippi.
In the hamlet of Stoneville, one mile west of the town of Leland, research by federal and state agricultural scientists has provided the spark for successful farming and a leading-edge mechanization of harvest across the U.S. farm belt, and in nations that are major competition for our farm commodities on the world market.
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Young Americans for Liberty at Ole Miss advocates for one core principle above all others: individualism.
While many think of civil liberties in terms of speech, privacy or economic autonomy, one of the most overlooked liberties is the freedom of parents to direct their children’s education.
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Below is a political opinion column by Kimberly Ross:
For all its faults, this country’s troubles still demand seriousness and restraint, not reckless talk of collapse.
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It didn’t take long for the bickering to start after the Senate Education Committee on Feb. 3 unanimously killed House Bill 2, the wide-ranging school choice proposal, with only two minutes of consideration.
Gov. Tate Reeves said he’s never been more disappointed in elected officials than he was in Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann and Sen. Dennis DeBar, R-Leakesville, the chairman of the Education Committee. The governor claimed the two worked closely with Democrats to kill the school choice bill, and accused them of hiding their efforts from conservatives.
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One of the strange things about mass media is that you deal in masses of people. Every week we have multiple obituaries in our newspapers. Each of the deceased leaves behind a wake in the water of humanity, touching other lives in innumerable and profound ways.
Our God creates so many people and yet each person is unique and precious. It is mind boggling, but that’s simply the way it is. Our job at the newspaper is to chronicle their passing. We cannot begin to fully express the magnitude of their journey.
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The governor would be tasked with appointing both the CIO and the executive director of the new agency.
The Senate Government Structure Committee advanced two bills last week aimed at increasing the state’s cybersecurity against hackers.
The committee passed amended versions of SB 2625 and SB 2636, after unanimously voting to add reverse repealers to the measures to allow further work on the bills.
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The move is part of the company’s $1 billion investment in its U.S. manufacturing operations. The Rankin County site will create roughly 300 new jobs.
The Mississippi Development Authority announced Tuesday that Siemens Energy is investing up to $300 million and creating up to 300 new advanced manufacturing jobs through an expansion in Rankin County.
The move is part of the company’s $1 billion investment in its U.S. manufacturing operations.
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An adopted amendment to the bill added the ability for the public to remove members through a recall vote.
A bill that would require all school boards members to be elected in the state of Mississippi passed out of the House Education committee on Thursday. It was also amended to include a recall process for board members if the electorate decides the process is needed.
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Below is a religion column by Matt Friedeman:
Life is hard here. And yet the Christian leaders are largely ebullient and eager to see what God might do through their ministries in the challenge that is Lagos.
Getting off the plane a week ago in Lagos, Nigeria, I was benevolently assaulted with… Africa.
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Below is an opinion column by Nathan Sanders:
Employers considering long-term investments care deeply about whether a state can produce capable workers year after year. Education policies that improve attainment help answer that question.
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