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Mr. and Mrs. Charlton Ward
Jennifer Lobos and Charlton Ward, both of Jackson, were united in marriage on Saturday afternoon, January 17 in a small ceremony at The Red Barn in Northeast Jackson, surrounded by family and close friends. Dr. Andy Johnson, uncle of the bridegroom, officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Jeannette Marisol Perez Oliveros and the late Luis Alberto Lobos Bahamondes of Curicó, Chile’.
The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Ward of Jackson and more recently, Columbus.
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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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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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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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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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Below is a political opinion column by Starla Brown and Thomas Kimbrell:
The implication is clear: exempting facilities and services from CON restrictions will expand access to them.
On January 28, a federal district court struck down Mississippi’s long-standing moratorium on the establishment of certain new health care facilities, calling the forty-year application of the moratorium “irrational.”
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Lt. Governor Hosemann told reporters the bills were the result of legislators “wanting to get a head of the game.”
The Senate Appropriations Committee has passed a measure to transfer $20 million into the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency’s disaster assistance fund after an ice storm swept through parts of Mississippi.
The funds would come out of the state’s Capital Expense fund.
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One measure would extend the validity of medical cannabis cards while another would create the “Right to Try Medical Cannabis Act.”
Two bills related to Mississippi’s medical cannabis program passed in the House of Representatives this week.
One bill extends the timeframe for a patient’s follow-up visit to keep their medical cannabis card valid, while a second bill creates a system where patients suffering from debilitating or terminal conditions not already on the state’s list of approved conditions can petition to try medical cannabis.
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Mayor John Horhn recently announced he will appoint Dr. RaShall M. Brackney as the next Chief of Police for the Jackson Police Department (JPD), following a national search that included community input, screening, and multiple rounds of interviews. The appointment will be submitted to the Jackson City Council for confirmation.
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Claire and Chip Porter, Tracy and Ken Szilasi, Gabrielle Hammett, Liz and Art Spratlin
After 40 years of devotion and service to Maison Weiss, current owners Ken and Tracy Szilasi, along with their daughter Gabrielle Hammett, have transferred ownership to Liz Mavar Spratlin and Claire Mavar Porter, sisters originally from Biloxi, with a desire to carry on the Maison Weiss legacy.
Nell and Bernard Weiss founded Maison Weiss in Highland Village in 1975 with the intent of creating a shopping destination for Mississippi women who sought the very best in fashion.
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Members of Jackson Prep’s eighth grade basketball team for 2025-2026 include (from left, back) Brennan Travis, Ethan Watson, Benny Moss, Jack Milner, Hudson Herring; and (front) Robert Riles, Brady Sinclair, Alex Sherman, Walker McAnally, Jame Ritchie, and Henry McPhillips. Not Pictured: Harris Hinshaw, Cameron Queen, Pierce Malone, and Caleb Herrin, manager.
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A location app on her cell phone provided Angela Ladner of Jackson a sense of peace when her triplet daughters were inexperienced drivers.
She didn’t have to make any calls to the triplets to see if they had arrived where they were going but could just check the Life360 app. The app also offers crash detection and will send roadside assistance, something the Ladners never needed.
“It was a safety net for when they were traveling,” she said. “It wasn’t about snooping. They knew how to make good decisions about where they were going and what they were doing.”
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First Presbyterian Day School (FPDS) recently hosted its inaugural Passing of the Gavel ceremony honoring more than five decades of leadership behind the school’s home show fundraiser, Holiday Potpourri. The event was held at the home of Blair Hederman, 2008 Holiday Potpourri Chair, and brought together chairwomen spanning the last 51 years of this signature community event.
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