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JACKSON • Mississippi legislators are moving into the final weeks of their three-month session, and they still need to make significant decisions about taxes and spending for the year that

AUSTIN — Texans age 50 and older will be eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine beginning March 15, state health officials announced Wednesday. “Expanding to ages 50 to 64 will continue the state’s priorities of protecting those at the greatest risk of severe outcomes and preserving the state’s health care system,” said Imelda Garcia, Department of State Health Services associate commissioner for laboratory and infectious disease services and chair of the Expert Vacci...

COVID-19 first arrived in Mesa County exactly one year ago today. Over those 365 days, Mesa County has seen more than 150 people die after testing positive for the coronavirus. However, as Mesa County enters its second year living with the virus, vaccines are outpacing total infections, hospitalizations have plummeted and events that were totally shut down last year are readying to return. On the occasion of Mesa County completing a full trip around the sun with COVID-19, The Daily Sentinel spo...

Democratic State Rep. Marty Flynn will have the chance to move from the House to the Senate this year.

Jeff Kuhr’s year could have been worse. As the head of the Mesa County Public Health Department and being the front-line guy dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic here, Kuhr could have faced far more obstacles, as many of his counterparts have in other parts of the state and nation. Sure, Kuhr and his staff received plenty of angry phone calls and emails over their handling of the pandemic at times, but nothing like the death threats and angry protests outside his own home that some others ha...

If you’ve been to a government meeting or read a news story about one, you might have heard of an executive session. An executive session is a portion of a government meeting that can be closed to the public. The Texas Open Meetings Act outlines when a government can take its discussions behind closed doors. Exemptions to open meetings in Texas include consideration of specific personnel matters; certain consultations with attorneys; discussions about the value or transfer of real property...

Guest Opinion Guest Opinion On Jan. 21, the Johnson City Commission had a workshop, during which Commissioner Brock submitted a proposal for a Community Equity Advisory Board. Because of the news and social media, we are well aware of your comments, Mayor Wise, saying that “heterosexual white males need not apply“ and that people who do not have the good fortune of experiencing equitable treatment consider participating on boards and commissions at the “adult table.” Commiss...

A school board that has been embroiled in dispute with the school district for nearly two years hit an ultimate low on March 8 while evaluating its superintendent in a public setting at her request. Despite an introduction from Ontario School Board of Directors Chairwoman Renae Corn at the onset of the meeting to keep things civil, there were several points of the meeting which were anything but. The top of these was when board member Derrick Draper took Superintendent Nicole Albisu to task ove...

Come the end of 2021, a peaceful transition of power is going to take place in Hickory’s West Wing. United Arts Council of Catawba County Executive Director Kathy Greathouse is retiring Dec. 31. She’ll quietly vacate her office in what is known as the West Wing, a building on the SALT Block in Hickory, and hand off her duties to the next director. Before I talk about Kathy, here’s a bit of arts council history from the organization’s website at artscatawba.org: “The United Arts ...

Paris Economic Development Corp. directors are to receive an update Tuesday from its Marketing Committee in open session, and in closed session they are to discuss obtaining a loan from the city to decrease interest payments on existing debt. Business prospects Project Highway, Project Rocket X and Project Firefly also are executive session items. Those wishing to attend the 5:30 p.m. Zoom meeting may do so through Zoom with Meeting ID 828 1625 0382 and password 567593. Other agenda items inclu...