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COPIAH COUNTY, Miss. (WLBT/Grey Information) – “Bigoted and racist”: That’s what some hunters and outdoorsmen are calling a sport warden in Mississippi after he shared a number of Fb photos and feedback a couple of Black Santa Claus.
Recreation warden Robert Patrick’s put up included feedback corresponding to, “that final chimney you went down Santa was mighty smutty,” “is {that a} 9 mm in my again or a present?” and “you say you need Kentucky Fried Hen together with your milk and cookies?”
These feedback are inflicting concern within the looking neighborhood. Residents Devin Cockrell and Drik Carr mentioned they’re fed up with the feedback.
“I noticed him put up an image with a Black Santa Claus, and he saved on saying additional and additional into the racist jokes,” Cockrell mentioned. “If he’s in a position to come onto your property, I imply, there’s no restrict to how he can train his prejudice.”
Carr expressed concern with the warden’s stage of authority.
“I imply, that’s scary as a result of he’s strolling round with a gun, and he’s acquired this authority, this badge, you already know?” Carr mentioned.
Cockrell and Carr mentioned the feedback are additionally impacting the place they go looking.
“I don’t plan on going anyplace close to an space that that man has jurisdiction,” Cockrell mentioned. “(It’s) simply not conduct I need to should cope with within the area, a lot much less know that’s what’s policing everybody else in that space.”
In accordance with the Mississippi Division of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks web site, their coverage “doesn’t permit discrimination on the premise of race.” WLBT contacted the division for a response, and so they mentioned they’d not touch upon a personnel matter.
Cockrell and Carr mentioned they hope by bringing the posts to the eye of the general public, one thing will likely be achieved.
“He’s bragged on his put up, ‘I’ve been right here 33 years.’ You’ve been getting away with this for 33 years. It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous,” Carr mentioned.
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Mississippi’s sales tax holiday is just around the corner.
Gov. Tate Reeves announced on Wednesday that the annual weekend where shoppers can buy goods without the pesky 7% tax tacked onto the bill will be held from Friday, July 12 through Sunday, June 14.
Senate Bill 2470, authored by Republican Walter Michel of Ridgeland, moved the annual holiday from the final weekend of July to the second weekend of the month. The legislation, which received unanimous support from both chambers in the capitol, also extended the holiday period for an extra day.
“We extended the holiday by an extra day so y’all can enjoy even more tax-free shopping in Mississippi,” Reeves wrote on X.
According to the Mississippi Department of Revenue, a sales tax holiday is a temporary period when sales taxes are not collected or paid on purchases of specific products and services. Sales tax is not due during the holiday on clothing, footwear, or school supplies if the sales price of a single item is less than $100.
The same applies to items that are purchased online — as long as they are ordered within the tax-free weekend period and the cost is under $100.
Mississippi moved the annual event back to the middle of the summer to accommodate parents buying school supplies for children in districts with modified calendars.
A full list of items being sold free of sales taxes can be found here.
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The state of Mississippi awarded $70.9 million this week to nine providers to cover some of the costs of 24 broadband deployment projects in areas lacking high-speed service.
Among the awardees were AT&T, Comcast, C Spire, Conexon and other primarily local providers.
The state did not detail how much money will go to each provider, but instead announced which providers would serve which counties. In some cases, there were multiple projects in a single county, and sometimes more than one provider won funding in the county.
AT&T won funding for projects in four counties and Comcast won funding for projects in three counties.
C Spire, a Mississippi-based company that offers mobile and fiber service in the state, won funding for two counties. Conexon also won funding for two counties. The company started out several years ago as a consultant to electric companies entering the broadband business but more recently began offering broadband service on its own.
A third company that won funding for two counties is Swyft Connect, a fiber provider serving Louisiana and Alabama, as well as Mississippi.
Companies that won funding for a single county were Delta Fiber, DE Fastlink, Franklin Telephone and Uplink.
Delta Fiber is a local fiber provider. DE Fastlink is the broadband unit of Dixie Electric.
Franklin Telephone is a rural provider founded in the 1950s. Uplink is a local provider offering fiber and fixed wireless.
A full list of awardees is as follows:
The award decisions were made by Mississippi’s Office of Broadband Expansion and Accessibility (BEAM). Funding came through the federal Capital Projects Fund.
The funding is expected to make high-speed broadband available to approximately 27,000 households in 19 counties.
Additional information about Mississippi broadband, including links to state funding resources, state specific Telecompetitor coverage, awards made and more, can be found on the Telecompetitor Broadband Nation webpage for the state.
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