Today's News

The Union County School board are making preparations to advertise for bids on the renovations of electrical issues at each of the district's four schools in the coming weeks, beginning with Ingomar.

The board looks to correct and bring up-to-date numerous issues at each county school that have been the cause of overloading of circuits, as well as could be potential fire hazards, the board discussed Monday evening.

 As I attempt to review everything that happened during the year 2008, both personally and with the newspaper, I am almost overwhelmed. Lots of things have taken place, some good, some not so good, but all-in-all, when you put them together, they form a pretty dad-gummed good year.

     With no apologies to some certain folks (and they know who they are) I started writing this column during 2008. A couple of events caused me to start thinking about it, none of which many people would probably be interested in, but I’ll share them anyway.

Leakage is a term freely used by Chamber of Commerce types to describe the amount of money that “leaks” from our market into surrounding markets and benefits their economy, but not ours. Measuring leakage is difficult, but not impossible, because some of it can be easily identified.

Only four days into the year 2009 and 16 days before a new president is sworn in with a monied plan to salvage our economy, the “Economic Development is everything” people of Northeast Mississippi have already devised a plan to squeeze more money out of the Federal bailout and position it where only they can access or use it. An example of planning that should not take place, but when it does, it demonstrates how little these people regard this state, this country and the people in it.