Idle thoughts about happenings around county
By PAT BROWN,Topping the list for this week’s rant is the school lunch situation. It is time to poney up and do what is right. Parents, either get with the Free and Reduced Lunch Program or don’t whine.
Topping the list for this week’s rant is the school lunch situation. It is time to poney up and do what is right. Parents, either get with the Free and Reduced Lunch Program or don’t whine.
Last Friday an email was sent to parents of the Simpson County Public School System. It concerned student meal cost and a problem that should not even exist because the school district provides a solution every year before school ever starts.
Somehow I was left out on the memo that Friday, October 25 is National Make A Dog’s Day. But it is that day every day in the Brown house.
Reading about the Lynyrd Skynyrd weekend being planned in Pike County Oct. 19-20 brings back recollections of that fateful airplane crash 42 years ago.
The Justice Department’s inspector general said this week that the federal Drug Enforcement Administration was slow to respond to the opioid epidemic. It reduced the use of a regulatory tool and allowed continual increases in the amount of pills that could be produced.
The Simpson County School District held a work session last Friday as part of their continuing education obligation as well as working to improve educational levels of the children of Simpson County.
The conference was directed by Dr. Mike Waldrip, president of the Mississippi School Board Association.
Good for Pike County Circuit Judge David Strong, who recently held a Summit woman accountable for her slanderous comments on Facebook about a locally owned business.
Judging from the names being made public as candidates for the job, the next chancellor at Ole Miss may be a former politician.
One question is how much politics will be involved in the decision to name the new chancellor.
This past week marked the beginning of fall. Hard to believe with some of the weather we have been having that we are supposedly in the cooler part of the year.
Either through intentional or subliminal marketing, the manufacturers of e-cigarettes have been touting them as safer alternatives to the real thing.
And they may be, but how much safer has come into question with the recent national outbreak of breathing illnesses related to vaping.