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The Winona Board of Alderman hold their regularly scheduled meetings every first and third Tuesday of the month starting at 5 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 29 the Winona Board of Alderman held a Special Called meeting set for 1 p.m. Aldermen Mickey Austin, Chris Herring, Charles Harris, and Mayor Jerry Flowers were present for the special meeting. Alderwomen Linda Purnell and Katrina Bays were absent. During the meeting the Mayor and Board discussed the damage incurred within the City of Winona limits as a result of 2026 Winter Storm Fern. Business moved quickly following the brief discussion, with the entire meeting lasting a mere five minutes in duration.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
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WINONA, Miss. — The Montgomery County Board of Supervisors declared a local state of emergency and approved debris removal and monitoring contracts Tuesday in response to widespread damage from Winter Storm Fern.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
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The North Carrollton Board of Alderman hold their regular meetings on the first Tuesday of the month starting at 6 p.m.
On Jan. 5 the North Carrollton Board of Alderman held their first meeting of 2026. During the meeting a letter was presented for project director and consultant for the Big Sand Creek Recreational Park by Mayor Ken Strachan. The letter Mayor Strachan presented was one of the final documents to be completed before advertising the project.
“I talked with Shane Correro with Willis Engineering and we are waiting on MDOT to give North Carrollton the go ahead to advertise.” Mayor Strachan said.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
Monday, Jan. 26, the Carroll County Board of Supervisors held their regularly scheduled end of the month meeting. All supervisors with the exception of Beat 5 Supervisor Randy Browning were present. During the meeting, the most pressing issue to be discussed was regarding the need for recovery efforts to begin immediately following the Jan. 24 ice storm. In lieu of this, the Board began taking the steps necessary to start the recovery process.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
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North Carrollton Mayor Ken Strachan welcomed Mississippi National Guard Sgt. Walker on Main Street in North Carrollton on Sunday, Feb. 1, as the two entities teamed up to assist their neighbors. The Mississippi National Guard visited Carroll County at the request of Strachan, who also serves as Carroll County Emergency Management Agency director.
By Special to the Winona Times and the Conservative on
2 months ago
Robert St. John says sometimes we’re too hard on Mississippi. We know the flaws. We’ve lived with them. But we can’t see the forest for the pine trees, as they say.
Marco had never seen a pine plantation.
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2 months ago
Below is an opinion column by Barrett Donahoe:
This is not about politics. It is about students. It is about families, and ensuring that every child—regardless of zip code or income—has access to an education that nurtures both the mind and the heart.
By Barrett Donahoe - Magnolia Tribune on
2 months ago
Below is an opinion column by Bobby Harrison:
The effort of Mississippi House leaders and others to expand programs providing public funds to private schools validates the oft-repeated quote that “history may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
Efforts by Mississippi legislators to send public funds to private schools go back to at least the 1960s.
By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today on
2 months ago
There are moments in a republic when the noise of slogans must give way to the quiet insistence of conscience.
This is one of them.
We are told, almost daily, that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pursuing the “worst of the worst.” Instead, the machinery of enforcement has turned its iron attention on those who have committed no crime beyond believing, worshiping, and hoping in the wrong direction.
By Joseph McCain on
2 months ago
“Are we really going to be the Gestapo?” podcaster Joe Rogan asked. “‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?”
Uproar over ICE and Border Patrol aggressive tactics has begun to breach President Donald Trump’s fortress.
“Hate to say it, but they are all lying,” posted lifelong Mississippi Republican Pete Perry on Facebook. “Denial of what we have seen, what has been put in front of us – them and us – and ignored and lied about. We saw it. They saw it. And they know we and everyone else have seen the truth.”
By Bill Crawford on
2 months ago
Over the past few years, Mississippi lawmakers have passed some critical conservative reforms. Last year, Mississippi became the first state in America to legislate to eliminate the income tax in 40 years. In 2022, we implemented flat tax reform. A few years before that, we passed important labor market reforms. In 2024, we reformed school funding to get more money into the classroom.
It is thanks to these flagship conservative reforms that Mississippi has enjoyed more economic growth in the past five years than over the previous fifteen combined.
By Douglas Carswell - Mississippi Center for Public Policy on
2 months ago
Spin the truth, spin the youth,
confound the status quo
so they worry, fear and
Not understand
Do you trust your propaganda?
Those who owned the news
knew they could abuse
manipulate disenfranchised discord weaponized with indignant terrified urgency
Do you trust your propaganda?
The personally wounded, entitled,
idealistic, masters of displaced liability
and lacking self accountability
Do you trust your propaganda?
It is us against them, them against us
By Suzannah McGowan on
2 months ago
Dear Editor:
With all due respect to the one or more state leaders who believe antifa (anTEEfuh) and basement dwelling keyboard warriors are the problem in Minneapolis, they are not. It is clearly the Gestapo like tactics of ICE.
Those leaders are glad we don't have that going on in Mississippi. I am, too, but I know why. They do, too. It is not because we don't have quite a few undocumented residents and a large city with a Democratic mayor. The difference is we have a Trumpublican leadership. Minnesota does not.
By Glynn Kegley on
2 months ago
Steve Jent, the exec director of Century Club Charities, announced recently that the Wayne-Sanderson Farms PGA golf tournament will no longer be held this year. So, after having a PGA professional golf tournament in Mississippi for 58 years we will have no sponsor, and therefore no tournament. Last year Century Club Charities, which organizes the tournament, gave $1 million to Blair Batson Children's Hospital, and $700m to several other charities.
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2 months ago
Louisiana’s U.S. Senator John Kennedy has written a national best-seller, “How to Test Negative for Stupid And Why Washington Never Will.” The preposterous conceit that drives the book is that everybody, or almost everybody, in the nation’s capital is stupid, with the exception of Senator Kennedy.
By Luther Munford on
2 months ago
Mississippi has been without a ballot initiative process since the 2021 state Supreme Court decision on Medical Marijuana Initiative 65 invalidated the process outlined in the state constitution.
A measure to restore Mississippi’s ballot initiative process was moved out of the Senate Elections Committee this week to restart the negotiation process between the two chambers.
By Frank Corder - Magnolia Tribune on
2 months ago
An Occupational Licensure Board Consolidation Study Committee could soon look at ways to streamline state government if lawmakers agree to the proposed measure.
The committee responsible for streamlining Mississippi government approved the creation of a study committee to examine consolidating scores of state licensure boards into one department.
By Daniel Tyson - Magnolia Tribune on
2 months ago
The bill would also revise the state retirement system’s new Tier 5, cap superintendent salaries, and increase pay for school attendance officers, among other provisions outlined in the measure.
A bill that aims to address the ongoing teacher shortage in the state and proposes to address problems with the state’s retirement system under the new Tier 5 system passed out of the Mississippi House Education and Appropriations Committees on Tuesday.
By Jeremy Pittari - Magnolia Tribune on
2 months ago
Below is a political opinion column by Corey DeAngelis:
Mississippi families can’t wait another year while politicians dither. And the Senate Republicans who sided with the radical left to block this education freedom must be held accountable at the ballot box.
Parents and students in Mississippi deserve better than the status quo that’s failing them. This week, the Mississippi Senate Education Committee killed the House’s universal school choice bill on a voice vote Tuesday, after it had already passed out of the House.
By Corey DeAngelis - Magnolia Tribune on
2 months ago
January state collections came in just under half-a-million dollars above revenue estimates.
Mississippi revenues continue to exceed legislative estimates seven months into the current fiscal year. This is welcome news for lawmakers as they continue to make headway toward setting a new state budget this session.
The Legislative Budget Office on Wednesday shared that the January state revenue report showed collections came in at $451,213, or 0.08% above the revised revenue estimate.
By Frank Corder - Magnolia Tribune on
