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Concerns about politically motivated debanking deserve serious attention. We must ensure Americans have fair access to financial services – access that cannot be denied due to political pressure or vague regulatory standards. But Mississippi’s HB 1597 is not the right path forward.
This problem starts and ends in Washington. Expansive, vague, and outdated federal oversight rules, paired with aggressive enforcement tactics, have created an environment where federal regulators can pressure banks to close accounts for certain people and industries.
By Ken Strachan - Columnist on
3 weeks 4 days ago
Concerns about politically motivated debanking deserve serious attention. We must ensure Americans have fair access to financial services – access that cannot be denied due to political pressure or vague regulatory standards. But Mississippi’s HB 1597 is not the right path forward.
This problem starts and ends in Washington. Expansive, vague, and outdated federal oversight rules, paired with aggressive enforcement tactics, have created an environment where federal regulators can pressure banks to close accounts for certain people and industries.
By Ken Strachan - Columnist on
3 weeks 4 days ago
Concerns about politically motivated debanking deserve serious attention. We must ensure Americans have fair access to financial services – access that cannot be denied due to political pressure or vague regulatory standards. But Mississippi’s HB 1597 is not the right path forward.
This problem starts and ends in Washington. Expansive, vague, and outdated federal oversight rules, paired with aggressive enforcement tactics, have created an environment where federal regulators can pressure banks to close accounts for certain people and industries.
By Ken Strachan - Columnist on
3 weeks 4 days ago
As President Donald Trump has acknowledged, America’s war on Iran will not be as easy or quick as the previous military incursion he authorized, the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
The goals for the South American operation were much simpler: Take out the incompetent and criminal Maduro and put in his place a regime of his lieutenants who are more inclined to take orders from Washington.
By Tim Kalich on
3 weeks 4 days ago
As President Donald Trump has acknowledged, America’s war on Iran will not be as easy or quick as the previous military incursion he authorized, the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
The goals for the South American operation were much simpler: Take out the incompetent and criminal Maduro and put in his place a regime of his lieutenants who are more inclined to take orders from Washington.
By Tim Kalich on
3 weeks 4 days ago
As President Donald Trump has acknowledged, America’s war on Iran will not be as easy or quick as the previous military incursion he authorized, the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
The goals for the South American operation were much simpler: Take out the incompetent and criminal Maduro and put in his place a regime of his lieutenants who are more inclined to take orders from Washington.
By Tim Kalich on
3 weeks 4 days ago
Photo by Photo Special to Times/Conservative, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Pictured from left: Mississippi Emergency Management Agency Individual Assistance Specialist Carlos Martinez, Federal Emergency Management Agency Representative Diandre Malone, Federal Emergency Management Representative Esther Pierre-Louis, Carroll County Chancery Clerk Casey Carpenter, and FEMA Operations William Aviles met with North Carrollton Mayor Ken Strachan who is Carroll County’s Emergency Management Director Thursday afternoon in North Carrollton on the Individual Assistance Carroll County is applying for to be awarded along with the three municipalities of North Carrollton, Carrollton, and Vaiden.
Carroll County Board of Supervisors have extended the Proclamation of Existence of a Local Emergency that was signed during the January 23-25 ice storm. “ The first proclamation signed in January was for thirty days, now with the board of supervisors extending the proclamation will be for another thirty days which will help with the debris cleanup that is now going on throughout Carroll County and the three municipalities.” Carroll County Emergency Management Director Ken Strachan said.
By PRESS RELEASE - CARROLL COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY on
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Years ago, Jimmy Buffett wrote one of my favorite songs of all time, “A Pirate Looks at Forty.” Soothing in nature with a good beat and lyrics that probably resonate with most middle-aged men, it’s a timeless classic. The rhythm picks up when he lays out the lyrics, “Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late. The canons don’t thunder, there’s nothin’ to plunder. I’m an over-forty victim of fate.” Although, I’ve been listening to that song my entire life, I don’t think I’ve ever related to it as much as I do right now sitting here writing this column.
By Ben Smith on
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POPLARVILLE, Miss. — The No. 3 Pearl River baseball team couldn't have scripted a better start to MACCC play Tuesday night.
The Wildcats exploded for 30 runs across the doubleheader and sealed the sweep with a five-inning no-hitter from Drew Harrison (Madison; Germantown), defeating Southwest 20-2 and 10-0.
By Dylan Dunaway on
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Photo by Russ Cloy, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Tucker Stockman walked up to the plate with two outs and two runners on base against Ole Miss pitcher Landon Koenig. Stockman took a 96 mph fastball to the backside for a base hit, scoring the winning run and lifting No. 7 Southern Miss over Ole Miss 2-1 on Tuesday night at Pete Taylor Park.
By DIMA MIXON on
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Photo by Russ Cloy, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Tucker Stockman walked up to the plate with two outs and two runners on base against Ole Miss pitcher Landon Koenig. Stockman took a 96 mph fastball to the backside for a base hit, scoring the winning run and lifting No. 7 Southern Miss over Ole Miss 2-1 on Tuesday night at Pete Taylor Park.
By DIMA MIXON on
3 weeks 5 days ago
Photo by Russ Cloy, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Tucker Stockman walked up to the plate with two outs and two runners on base against Ole Miss pitcher Landon Koenig. Stockman took a 96 mph fastball to the backside for a base hit, scoring the winning run and lifting No. 7 Southern Miss over Ole Miss 2-1 on Tuesday night at Pete Taylor Park.
By DIMA MIXON on
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First-Generation Ole Miss Student Selected as Truman Finalist
Aminata Ba to interview for award next week; winners announced April 24
OXFORD, Miss. – The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation has named University of Mississippi junior Aminata Ba as a finalist for the prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship.
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Landowners face financial,
cleanup decisions after storm
By Susan Collins-Smith
MSU Extension Service
RAYMOND, Miss. -- In the aftermath of the recent winter storm that blanketed many areas of Mississippi in ice for days, timberland owners have some tough decisions to make.
The Jan. 23-27 storm left thousands of acres of timber damaged or destroyed and landowners wondering how to manage this financial loss.
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MSU’s food science, culinology students cooking up success at national competition
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Two student teams from Mississippi State’s Department of Biochemistry, Nutrition and Health Promotion have advanced to the finals of the Research Chefs Association’s National Innovation Competition, set this week in Westminster, Colorado.
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Below is a political opinion column by Roger Wicker:
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker says President Donald Trump used military force to protect the United States and make the world safer.
President Trump recently made the most difficult decision a commander-in-chief can make. He ordered American service members into action. The president concluded that the time had come to strike the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, the Iranian regime. I believe the decision was profound, deliberate, and correct.
By Press Release - Senator Roger Wicker on
3 weeks 5 days ago
Below is a political opinion column by Roger Wicker:
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker says President Donald Trump used military force to protect the United States and make the world safer.
President Trump recently made the most difficult decision a commander-in-chief can make. He ordered American service members into action. The president concluded that the time had come to strike the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, the Iranian regime. I believe the decision was profound, deliberate, and correct.
By Press Release - Senator Roger Wicker on
3 weeks 5 days ago
Below is a political opinion column by Roger Wicker:
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker says President Donald Trump used military force to protect the United States and make the world safer.
President Trump recently made the most difficult decision a commander-in-chief can make. He ordered American service members into action. The president concluded that the time had come to strike the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, the Iranian regime. I believe the decision was profound, deliberate, and correct.
By Press Release - Senator Roger Wicker on
3 weeks 5 days ago
Below is a religion column by Matt Friedeman:
Samaritans typically hated Jews. But with the sun shining overhead, the woman came to understood that the real Water was right before her very eyes.
This morning one of the guys in my discipleship group shared an interesting nuance of the “Women at the Well” narrative from the Gospel of John, chapter four.
By Matt Friedeman - Magnolia Tribune on
