Northside

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Opinion: It's time to reform election process (Northside Sun)

Primarying is a tactic available to political parties when candidates run in separate primary elections. In that case voters can only choose among candidates in ...

Every morning in school people of a certain age pledged “. . . allegiance to the flag and the republic for which it stands.” We are being called now to live up to that pledge by defending our republican democracy against the designs of the politics industry duopoly. From the perspective of the two parties it’s a well-oiled machine working exactly as they’ve engineered it to work. The duopoly has exploited that loophole to optimize the industry for their benefit, not for the benefit of citizens. There are several other, formal political parties in the U.S. but you don’t and won’t see their candidates in Presidential debates. Plurality voting can result in winners with less than 50 percent of the popular vote. In fact, the Constitution never mentions political parties. Hence, the two parties are free to do whatever they like to entrench and solidify the duopoly, mostly by designing legislative machinery and election procedures to their liking. The two political parties are not government, they are purely private, self-interested organizations that have gained control of government. If government weren’t captured by the political industry duopoly of the Democrats and Republicans, primary would be an adjective even in politics. The duopoly poses a threat to our democracy, perhaps existentially so. A party may “primary” an incumbent not hewing the party line closely enough by backing a more amenable challenger in its primary election. The word “primary” is an adjective in ordinary usage.

MCIR: Pandemic exacted a steep toll on people with disabilities (Northside Sun)

Legally blind and alone, Katrina Byrd of Jackson, Mississippi, was reeling from her partner's death from ALS when the pandemic sent her into isolation, ...

“I don’t expect to be back to where I was medically before the pandemic,” Ostrowski said. ‘Flatten the curve’ was the catchphrase in the news,” Ostrowski said. Gammill also said the increase in computers in the classroom was a positive outcome of the pandemic. “Kids in the bottom two quartiles were allowed to fall further and further behind,” Not addressed in the report is what various experts are calling “a mass disabling event”—colloquially known as “long COVID”, where systemic changes occur in the body after infection. Anxiety was in the air along with the earliest conspiracies. The pre-pandemic issues of school districts appearing to delay evaluations for special education for children with disabilities or giving parents inaccurate information on deadlines “have become much worse,” she said. The United States Department of Education under both the Trump and Biden administrations has been abundantly clear about that,” Hogge said. “There’s already a wait before COVID of four to six months,” Young said. Young said, in the midst of the pandemic, there was nowhere for the disabled to go — congregate settings such as group homes and institutions were increasingly risky, and many had difficulty receiving home-based care or community-based solutions. But parents of children receiving special education services had a right to be frustrated, she said. “COVID -19 really exacerbated some of the existing problems within our system,” Young noted.

Congressman Bennie Thompson Announces Various Awards ... (Northside Sun)

United States Representative Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) recently announced the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded $100,000 in grant funds to the ...

United States Representative Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) recently announced the U.S. Department of the Interior has awarded $3,226,022 in Land and Water Conservation Funds (LWCF) to the State of Mississippi for outdoor recreation and conservation projects. Update Airport Master Plan or Study Yazoo County Airport Congressman Bennie Thompson Announces U. S. Department of the Interior Awards over $3.2 Million to the State of Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson Announces U. S. Department of Transportation Awards $1 Million to the City of Jackson United States Representative Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) recently announced the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded $100,000 in grant funds to the County of Tunica and the Tunica County Airport Commission to reconstruct runway and taxiway lighting.

More plaintiffs join lawsuit involving ex-Northside coach (Roanoke Times)

They allege that Lorton Allen, who is no longer employed by Roanoke County schools, groomed them as freshmen for sexual assaults that he carried out in ...

“Eventually, Jane Doe 4 covered up the webcam with tape to prevent such peeping,” the 48-page lawsuit states. “Defendant Allen had worked for two years to groom Jane Doe 1 and gain her trust; he had effectively desensitized her to his sexual abuse by her junior year in high school,” the lawsuit claims. But the policy was never enforced, the lawsuit contends, and Allen continued to keep his door closed when meeting with students. While the student resisted, she did not know how to stop the actions of a “popular teacher and trusted adult at Northside,” the lawsuit states. At his suggestion, the lawsuit alleges, she stored her sports bag in Allen’s office and began to stop by for snacks and small talk. One of the plaintiffs asserted that Allen told her that he spent days without sleeping to repair her damaged laptop computer, and that as a result she owed him “big time.” Allen began to ask about her sexual activities, the lawsuit alleges, and eventually his conduct escalated to inappropriate touching.

Murder charges filed in Northside Park homicide, suspect wanted for ... (Kosciusko Star Herald)

Murder charges have been filed against three individuals taken into custody for the fatal shooting death of Kenwon Tyshon Riley that occurred at Northside ...

Stick with The Star-Herald for updates in this developing story. The investigation remains ongoing. But the Kosciusko Police Department is still searching for another suspect.

Police: Woman in critical condition after shooting at apartment ... (FirstCoastNews.com WTLV-WJXX)

Police say they responded to the Water's Edge apartment complex at 900 Broward Road around 7:26 p.m..

Northside Church's youth musical production returns this weekend (Jackson Sun)

"Wanted" is based on a Western town in the 1800s and will show a. It's been three years since the youth of Northside Church on North Highland has been able to ...

“I was really disappointed when it got canceled because I was looking forward to the experience and getting to know more people here through that,” Bryant said. So she heard about the production her first few weeks at the church and signed up for it almost immediately. “The whole experience is really a rite of passage almost for students here at Northside,” Flowers said. Flowers, Josh Roolf and Emma Gaskill have all been a part of this production since each of them were in sixth grade, which is the first year a member of the Northside Youth Program can be a part of it. “I remember being in sixth grade wrapping up my first year with this, and we have a cast party after the last night where a few awards are handed out. “We’re encouraging anyone who wants to wear their boots and cowboy hats to make it a Western night,” said Brennen Flowers, a recent graduate of Madison Academic who was the head writer for this production.