![]() All of the political science re- search says that’s not what’s going on. “A lot of young women in Mississippi probably look at that and feel that’s because you can’t get elected if you run. ![]() “We don’t have many women in posi - tions of elected leadership in the state,” Rainey said. Rainey, who serves as a pro- gram coordinator, said NEW accepts any woman enrolled in public, private or community college, to the six-day residential program geared toward building young women’s confidence in politics. Mississippi Univer- sity for Women political science professor Chan- ley Rainey said those n umbers show the un- der-representation of women serving in office, which led to the National Ed- ucation for Women’s (NEW) Leader- ship program held each summer at the university. Locally, both the Columbus City Council and Lowndes County Board of Supervisors have no women serving, while Star kvi lle Board of Aldermen and Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors each have one woman seated. Only 26 of those seats are held by women. There are 17 4 elected members of the Mississippi Legislature. However, be- cause of heavy rains and flooding in February and March, the Prai- rie School Road is not a priority for ![]() ![]() Calvert and Road Manager Ronnie Burns told supervisors the county could get the bridge repaired for free through the Tom- bigbee River Valley Water Man- agement District, of which the county is a member. I can’t do that without the brid ge.” Supervisors voted to close the bridge March 4 after County En- gineer Robert Calvert told them it was unsafe due t o bolts that were not properly installed when the bridge was built more than 50 years ago. I could lose a lot of my fish this season if I can’t get back and forth. “With that bridge blocked off right now, my tractors can’t get across (Prairie School Road) and it’s taking us 45 minutes to get places it used to take us just min- utes,” he said. During Monday’s regular Board of Supervisors meeting, Corey Hall, who operates an over 300-acre catfish farm owned by Harvest Select, an Alabama-based catfish sourcing and distribution company, asked supervisors to consider repairing and reopening the bridge that was closed in early March. Lowndes County officials are looking at options for quickly fix- ing a bridge over Gilmer Creek af- ter hearing its closure is af fecting a local busines s. “It’s the first time they’ve ever gotten anything.” “It was nice to see Crawford get something,” Smith said. Crawford will get $75,000, for repairs at the old Motley High School gym, which will serve as a commu- nity center, and Caledonia will get $50,000 for improvements at Ola J. West Point will receive $500,000 for repairs to Chur- chill Road. The city of Co - lumbus, which reportedly fac- es a $338,000 debt by the end of the fiscal year, will receive $450,000 as a reimbursement for its City Hall renovation as well as $500,0 00 for Phase 2 con- struction on the Sen. Through a combination of bond package funding and ap - propriations from the Depart- ment of Finance and Adminis- tration and Education, seven projects received funding in Lown- des, Oktibbeha and Clay coun- ties. Jeff Smith (R-Columbus), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. “We didn’t get everything we wanted, but we got a lot,” said Rep. The Golden Triangle will have an additional $13.1 million to spend on a variety of projects, including more than $6 million for construction and Mississip- pi University for Women and $5 million for the Partnership School in Starkville.
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