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Remembering the service and sacrifice of September 11
By KEN STRACHAN - Columnist
Thu,09/04/25-5:09PM , 309 Reads
I was 27 on September 11, 2001. A few months earlier I had just begun my first term as mayor of North Carrollton and President George W. Bush was in his first term. Here, twenty-four years later, I’m serving my fourth term as mayor and President Bush has now retired. Oh, there have been many times I have referred back to that day.
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Hurricane Katrina twenty years later
By KEN STRACHAN - Columnist
Thu,08/28/25-3:15PM , 392 Reads
It’s been twenty years tomorrow since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005.
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Celebrating Labor Day
By KEN STRACHAN - Columnist
Thu,08/21/25-5:29PM , 200 Reads
In 1981, during his first Labor Day, the 40th President Ronald Reagan said, “We built this great Nation, built it to surpass the highest standards ever imagined, through the hard work of our people. I would match the American worker against any in the world.
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Election night traditions
By KEN STRACHAN - Columnist
Thu,08/14/25-4:14PM , 356 Reads
I got the call last week about a special meeting of the Mississippi Republican Party State Central Committee for this Friday via Zoom. The purpose is to certify the candidates elected in the August 5, 2025, Republican primary special elections for certain legislative districts here in the Magnolia State.
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