Month: November 2021
Other Voices | Lana Noonan: What Does Government Cost in Hancock County This Month?
It’s bill paying time all over the county of Hancock this week and next as all 3 cities, the county, and the 2 school districts publish their claim dockets on their agendas.
Bay St. Louis, Waveland and Diamondhead all have their first meetings of November tonight.
Bay St. Louis at 5:30pm in their council chambers behind the shell station at Highway 90 and Main St.
Waveland at 6:30pm at board room in city hall on Coleman Avenue
Diamondhead at 6:00pm at city hall in Diamondhead
The Hancock County Board of supervisors met yesterday, Nov. 1, at 9:00am at government complex on Highway 90 in Bay St. Louis. All of their meetings are archived for viewing by gong to their website, click on supervisors, agendas, and select meeting date.
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Other Voices | Tom Callaghan: Bannon!
I’ve always liked Steve Bannon.
We’ve got a bit in common. We’re both mostly Irish and mostly, Catholic. Bannon went to high school with Benedictine Catholic Monks in Richmond, VA. I attended most of the Jesuit Colleges on the East Coast graduating from one of them. Bannon was elected President of the Student Body at Virginia Tech, in Harrisonburg, VA. I was elected to the student council from my home room in high school….ok, ok no big deal, but I beat the Class President and the Class Valedictorian in a three person race.
So, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Bannon calls himself a nationalist populist. I call myself an Obama-Pelosi Democrat with emphasis on staying out of unnecessary Mideast wars urged upon us by Israel and her, bought and paid for, friends in Congress. I know they’re “bought and paid for” because Tom Friedman of the Times said they were and Tom loves Israel more than life itself.
Bannon talks too much and often makes enemies. Chicken libs (a chicken lib is unwilling to criticize Israel ever) love to take shots at Bannon. Organized commenters (its called Hasbara, from the Hebrew) join the fray to vile excess. Their “real” gripe: Bannon supposedly said, according to one of his former wives (are you kidding me!), that he “didn’t want his kids going to school with a bunch of whiny Jewish brats.” Continue Reading………