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Model Ts roll into town BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

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A 9-year-old boy who was riding a bicycle was transported via Air Evac after being hit by a white Jeep around 4:30 Tuesday afternoon on Bunch Street. The youngster suffered bruises, lacerations and possible broken bones when he was trapped under the vehicle. Corinth police, First Responders and Magnolia EMS were all called to the scene. The Corinth Police Department Accident Reconstruction Unit is investigating the accident.

America’s first affordable car is coming to Corinth. A Model T touring club is planning a stop in the area as part of its trek from Arizona. “It will be a chance to see the cars from the early 1900s,” said Magnolia Antique Car Club President Rick Kelley. The car club will be hosting the tour group, which is set to have 20-25 Model T cars at the Crossroads Museum at 4 p.m. today. Individuals will get a chance to ride in the cars free of charge. The event will be moved to

Crossroads Regional Park in case of rain. “It really is something to see,” said Crossroads Museum Executive Director Brandy Steen. “We are excited they are coming to town.” The Arizona club has already made stops in other parts of the state. “Most of their tour has taken place in Mississippi,” added Kelley. Stops were made in Vicksburg on Sunday before moving onto Columbus on Monday and Tupelo on Tuesday. “They will spend a night and tour Corinth before heading to

Shiloh,” said the car club president. Called the Ford Model T, the car is known as the vehicle that opened travel to the middleclass American. Produced by Henry Ford’s Motor Company, the car was named the world’s most influential car of the 20th century in an international poll. ■ The Magnolia Antique Car Club will also be hosting a cruise-in on Sunday from 1-4 p.m. at Arby’s. There will be a drawing for free food with money earned to be given back as door prizes. There is a $5 registration fee.

KCB urge hazardous waste collection day BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Keep Corinth-Alcorn County Beautiful is proposing a household hazardous waste collection day — the first that would be held in Corinth in almost 10 years. The event would likely be held on a Saturday in late September, giving residents an opportunity to safely dispose of materials such as motor oil and electronics that can be difficult or dangerous to throw away. KCB Coordinator Andrea Rose presented the request to the Board of Supervisors on Monday and Board of Aldermen on Tuesday. Application will be submitted for a grant of $25,000 for the disposal day

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Park Ranger Tom Parson shows off a part of the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center’s new exhibit.

Corinth artifacts highlight exhibit at Interpretive Center For the Daily Corinthian

Every Civil War soldier carried items that were a necessary part of his job — a musket, a uniform, a pair of boots or brogans. Among those things considered indispensible by men in the field were a cartridge box for holding ammunition, a knapsack for carrying personal items and a blanket for keeping warm at night. Thanks to the generosity of David Jarnigan of C & D Jarnigan Co., Inc., a new exhibit at the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center displays three pieces of equipment which were carried by a pair of soldiers while they were in Corinth. “These are wonderful artifacts in an excellent state of preservation and we are very excited about showing them to our visitors,” said Park Ranger Tom Parson. “All of the pieces on display

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Through the generosity of David Jarnigan of C & D Jarnigan Co., Inc., the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center has a new exhibit of a cartridge box for holding ammunition, a knapsack for carrying personal items and a blanket. in the center have a strong connection with Corinth and these new additions are no exception.” Private John Roberts of Company D, 35th Tennessee Infantry carried his cartridge box

during the Battle of Shiloh. His regiment was assigned to the brigade of the legendary Brig. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne and Roberts was involved in the Please see ARTIFACTS | 2A

through the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. Rose said the event would be set up basically the same as it was in 2003. She explained that a contractor would be hired to collect all of the materials, salvaging what can be recycled and properly disposing of things that cannot be recycled. None of the disposed waste would stay in Alcorn County. The event is proposed to be held at the Alcorn County Transfer Station near the water treatment plant on South Harper Road. Participants “would drive in and kind of make a loop and there would be each different truck where they would drop off Please see HAZARD | 2A

Gathering discusses underage drinking issue BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Two local organizations say it’s time for a new attitude on underage drinking. Region IV Mental Health and the Families First Resource Center of Tishomingo County have partnered for a town hall meeting on underage drinking at Northeast Community College’s Waller Hall in Booneville at 4 p.m. on Thursday. Ray Hall, public affairs officer for Troop F of the Mississippi Highway Patrol, will discuss the issue. Stacy Brooks of Families First said the groups are answering the surgeon general’s call for communities to focus on the issue of underage drinking during March with the idea that communities can help change how people think and act and help support teen decisions not to drink by taking a firm community stance against underage drinking. “Underage drinking is a serious public health problem, and it’s everybody’s problem,” said Brooks. “A solution

should be everyone’s responsibility.” Youth in grades 5 and up, parents, community youth organizations, teachers and church groups are encouraged to attend. Brooks said the sponsoring groups want to discuss how to encourage children to feel that “life is great — add nothing.” The groups say that underage alcohol consumption is a widespread and persistent public health and safety problem leading to serious personal, social and economic consequences. Some of the statistics noted by Brooks include: ■ In 2009, 11 percent of youth between the ages of 12 and 20 drank, with 90 percent being binge drinkers — having five or more drinks in a short period of time. ■ In 2008, there were approximately 190,000 emergency room visits by people under 21 for injuries and conditions linked to alcohol. ■ Students reporting being drunk at least once in the past month included 1 in 5 10thgraders and about 3 out of 10 12th-graders.

8th annual Great American Cleanup campaign kicks off soon BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

Volunteers are doing their part to keep America attractive by seeing that Corinth-Alcorn County is beautiful. Keep Corinth-Alcorn Beautiful has kicked off its eighth Great American Cleanup campaign with an enthusiastic re-

sponse to the cleanup effort. “It takes a lot of people coming together to help keep the city and county clean,” said Keep Corinth Beautiful Coordinator Andrea Rose. “There has been a real positive response already.” The cleanup campaign started in March and runs through the end of May.

Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup uses 3.8 million volunteers to create local chance in communities. Last year, volunteers donated more than 5.2 million hours to clean and improve more than 16,500 communities around the country. “Every year we add to the list

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of volunteers and businesses,” added Rose. “Once individuals volunteer, they come back and say ‘I can’t believe how much litter is out there and I will never be part of littering again.’” In 2011, over 20,000 pounds of litter was picked up in Alcorn County, according to Rose. There is no cost to take part

in the cleanup program. Keep Corinth-Alcorn Beautiful will provide the bags, safety vests, gloves and litter collection tools needed. “Volunteers choose the day and time that is best for them to collect,” said Rose. Please see CLEAN | 2A

On this day in history 150 years ago March 21 — In a letter to Father James Mullon of St. Patrick’s Church in New Orleans, Gen. Beauregard discusses the necessity of melting down church bells to provide bronze for the casting of cannon for the Confederacy.

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Recalling the lost children of Shiloh (Source: “The Lost Account of the Battle of Corinth and The Court Martial of Gen. Van Dorn” Unknown Author, Edited by Monroe F. Cockrell.) Thomas D. Duncan, whose scouting exploits have already been mentioned, was but 15 years old at the outbreak of the war. Duncan, a native of Tishomingo County, Mississippi, was prime recruiting material for the Confederacy. A young, impressionable man, Duncan knew the terrain from Corinth to Savannah like the back of his hand. Duncan originally enlisted in the Corinth Rifles, commanded by Judge W.H. Kilpatrick, but Duncan’s father thought the infantry too dangerous and insisted that Thomas join a local cavalry company then being organized by William M. Inge. So young Duncan transferred and his father gave him a good horse and his blessings.

The rush to get into action was s t r o n g however. Duncan in Vicki relates great detail Roach how the Family i n f a n t r y Branches and artillery united were the first activated. When the Corinth Rifles were ordered to Pensacola, Florida, many members of Duncan’s cavalry company bolted and joined the infantry unit so they wouldn’t miss any of the action. “I would have gone, but as I was under the lawful age for enlistment and still subject to parental rule, my father objected: and as the patriotic spirit in me was welling up so strong as to throw out a defy, my father told me that if I did not obey him I should not go to war at all.” During the early months of the conflict, many units used adolescent drillmasters from the plethora of military

schools in the south to teach soldiers how to march. It must have made for an entertaining sight as the prepubescent boys shouted out commands to men with beards and gray hair. In Memphis, Tennessee young Charlie Jackson was assigned to instruct his father’s company in the arts of drill and ceremony. According to Bell Wiley, when the unit was dispatched to Shiloh, Charlie refused to be left behind, and against his parents’ wishes was outfitted with a musket, specially made for his small hands. His parents’ fears were realized near the end of the first day at Shiloh when Charlie was killed. Among other fatherson pairings were John C. Thompson and his 13 year old son, Flem, Mississippians who marched off to war together. The elder Thompson, though have enlisted as a private, showed such valor that he was rewarded with a commission. Unfortunately,

young Flem would see his father fall at Chickamauga. Last but not least of the notable youths at Shiloh was Willie Forrest, son of then Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest. A mere 15 years old, Willie drove his famous father to distraction when he disappeared during the afternoon of April 6th. Forrest spent a good deal of the evening trying to find his wayward son, only to have the boy wander up with a companion and some Yankee prisoners. Like father, like son. These are but a few of the children of Shiloh, boys whose adolescent years were spent on battlefields instead of at play. (Vicki Burress Roach is a professional genealogist and special columnist for the Daily Corinthian. Send queries to: Alcorn County Genealogical Society, Attention: Vicki B. Roach, P.O. Box 1808, Corinth, Miss. 38835-1808. The Alcorn County Genealogical Society’s website is www. avsia.com/acgs.)

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horrific fighting near the Shiloh meeting house. After the battle, Roberts participated in the Siege of Corinth but the active life of a soldier proved too demanding for this soldier in his late 40s. Within a year, Roberts had arranged for his young son to serve in his place. Pvt. Charles Cogar of Bonaparte, Iowa enlisted in the 2nd Iowa Infantry and was issued a regulation knapsack and wool

blanket. Like the other men in his regiment, Cogar stenciled his name in white paint on the outside of the knapsack so it could be readily identified from the hundreds of others in his unit. His thick brown blanket had to have been a welcome friend during the freezing nights near Fort Donelson, Tenn. It was there, on February 15, 1862, that a bullet slammed into his right elbow, disabling him for

life. Five months later, Cogar was “discharged for wounds” at Camp Montgomery on the south side of Corinth. Visitors to the Interpretive Center can see the faint stencil on Cogar’s knapsack as well as the initials “J. C. R.” which Roberts carved in the top flap of his cartridge box. “These three items will remain on display throughout the year,” explained Supervisory

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Keep Corinth Beautiful Coordinator Andrea Rose has the supplies needed for those wanting to get involved in beautifying the community.

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The cleanup events aren’t limited to just groups and businesses either. “We would love for individuals to get involved too,” said the Keep Corinth Beautiful Coordinator. KAB has set a goal of recruiting four million volunteers to take part in cleanup this year. During last season’s cleanup in America, 177 million pounds of litter and debris were

removed, 177,000 acres of parks, public lands and spaces were beautified, and 166,000 trees and 1.5 million flowers and bulbs were planted. KAB also collected over 290 million plastic bottles for recycling. “This is a chance for us to put our best foot forward and make our community a nice place to live by cleaning up and greening up,” said Rose. Contact Rose at 2875269 for more information or to volunteer.

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Deaths Pauline Bundesen

Funeral services for Pauline Fay Bundesen, 73, of Corinth, are set for 11 a.m. Friday at Magnolia Funeral Home. Mrs. Bundesen died Monday, March 19, 2012, at Magnolia Regional Health Center. Visitation is 5-8 p.m. Thursday and from 10 a.m. until service time Friday at the funeral home. All other arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Magnolia Funeral Home.

Frankie Boyd

Funeral services for Frankie Boyd, 82, of Corinth, are set for 11 a.m. Friday at St. Mark Baptist Church with burial in the National Cemetery. Mrs. Boyd died Thursday, March 15, 2012 at North Mississippi Medical Center. Born Nov. 13, 1929, she received her education from Ardmore-Douglass. She was a day care teacher and member of the United Methodist Church. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Annette McInnis; her parents, Frank and Florene James; her grandparents, May and Nellie Love; Boyd and a brother, Lawrence James. Survivors include her husband, James Boyd; two children, Francis Long (Satchel), and Kimberly Boyd; siblings, Harvey, Bobby, Robert and Charles James; sisters, Longetta (Bruce), Willie Gore, Margie Wimbley, Judy Jones and Janett Yates; grandchildren, Camille, Kenya, Melita, Sorayo, Nehemiah and Destani; and five great grandchildren. Rev. Johnathan Parker and Rev. Sepada Thomas will officiate. Visitation is 6-8 p.m. Thursday at St. Mark. Patterson Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

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Obamacare will cost us even more debt The Affordable Health Care Act aka Obamacare was signed into law two years ago. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), speaker of the House at the time, famously said of the 2,700-page bill, “We have to pass the bill Daniel so that you can find out what Gardner is in it.” Over the past two years Columnist we’ve found some interesting things. Mr. Obama promised Americans his health care reform would save families $2,500 in health insurance premiums by the end of his first term. According to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey, American families have paid nearly $2,500 MORE on their premiums. You may remember the President repeating over and over again that if you liked your current health care coverage you could keep it. According to the Obama administration’s own estimates, 80 percent of small businesses in America will drop their current health plans because of onerous mandates in Obamacare. (“Onerous” is my characterization of the mandates.) And, speaking of mandates, 26 state Attorneys General will argue before the U.S. Supreme Court next week that Obamacare is unconstitutional because of the individual mandate forcing every citizen to either purchase health insurance or pay an annual fine/ tax of $2,000. The Supreme Court will release its verdict some time this summer. Last week the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office doubled its estimate of how much Obamacare would cost taxpayers over ten years to more than $1.8 Trillion. Many economists have opined the cost is likely to continue to skyrocket. Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate have removed another onerous mandate in Obamacare requiring every business to report to the federal government every purchase exceeding $600. Why in the world would anybody put such an insane requirement in the law to begin with? The House is currently working on legislation to repeal another provision in Obamacare establishing the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) – a 15-member group of bureaucrats the law authorizes to set limits on Medicare services and payments. Do you want some board of nincompoops in DC deciding whether Medicare will cover some medical procedure for you or someone in your family? Obamacare, like other one-size-fits-all federal programs, promises way too much to too many people, and doesn’t consider future costs. Sure health care costs in America are outrageous. But, Obamacare doesn’t solve that problem; it actually makes the problem worse. America is more than $15.5 trillion in debt because the federal government keeps on spending way more than we bring in through taxes. Obamacare will cost us even more debt if it is not ruled unconstitutional or repealed. Washington has already over-promised what it can pay for Medicare in the next ten years. Doctors are refusing to see new Medicare patients because Medicare won’t cover doctors’ costs, i.e. doctors are already losing money treating Medicare patients and things are just getting worse. The federal government cannot continue providing benefits, even to those who truly need those benefits, while it continues to over-spend its budget by more than $1.3 trillion every year. And, America doesn’t have enough “rich people” to make up the difference or to cover the debt. The thing that bothers me the most is that the poor among us will pay much higher prices for our irresponsible government than the elite among us who continue to push for more and bigger government. A native of Corinth, Daniel L. Gardner is a syndicated columnist who lives in Starkville. He may be reached at Daniel@DanLGardner.com.

Prayer for today Teach us, God, to trust in you, to follow your ways, and to live according to your will. Amen.

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The glaring inequality of Obamaville top U.S. income tax Rising inequality rate from 35 to 39.6 “is the defining issue percent, where it of our time,” said stood under Bill ClinPresident Obama ton, and advancing in his Osawatomie America toward true speech that echoed equality. the “New NationalPatrick Republicans reply ism” address Theodore Roosevelt de- Buchanan that the top 1 percent of U.S. taxpaylivered in that same Columnist ers already carry 40 Kansas town a cenpercent of the income tury ago. In the last two decades, tax load, while half of the the average income of the nation and a majority of top 1 percent in the U.S. has Obama voters pay no ingrown by 250 percent, be- come tax at all. Moreover, moaned our populist presi- these free-riders also condent, while the income of sume almost all of the $900 the average American has billion the nation spends annually on Great Society stagnated. “This kind of inequality programs. Yet, a path has just — a level we haven’t seen since the Great Depression opened up to test the seri— hurts us all,” said Obama. ousness of the president, to “Inequality ... distorts determine if he is a phony our democracy. ... It gives on the inequality issue, or a an outsized voice to the few true egalitarian. That opportunity comes who can afford high-priced lobbyists ... and runs the from a report last week risk of selling out our de- that income inequality in mocracy to the highest bid- America is at its greatest in the electoral precinct where der.” But is the president, a Obama won his largest maformer disciple of radical jority: Washington, D.C. In Washington, the top socialist Saul Alinsky, truly serious about closing the in- 5 percent of households have an average income equality gap? Or is this just political of $473,000, highest of all blather to frame the election of the 50 largest cities in year as a contrast between America. The average inBarack Obama, champion come of the top 20 percent of the middle class, and a of district households is Republican Party that sup- $259,000. Only San Franposedly hauls water for the cisco ranks higher. Moreover, that $259,000 undeserving rich? Obama’s retort to those average household income who say he is waging class for the top 20 percent is 29 times the average housewarfare? Republicans alone pre- hold income of the bottom vent him from raising the 20 percent, which is only

$9,100 a year. The citadel of liberalism that Obama carried 93-7 has a disparity of incomes between rich and poor that calls to mind the Paris of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Washington is a textbook case of the inequality that Obama says “distorts our democracy,” and it is the ideal place to prove that he is serious. For Washington is Obamaville. The mayor is a Democrat. The city council is Democratic. There are more lawyers and lobbyists concentrated here than in any city in America. Here we have the perfect test case — the most liberal city in the republic, with the greatest income inequality, where Obama’s political clout and personal popularity are highest. And there is no obstructionist Republican cabal to block progressive reforms. If Obama and the Democratic Party will not use their power to close the inequality gap right here in their own playpen, how do they remain credible in Middle America? How to proceed, if the left is serious about inequality? Consider. The District of Columbia income tax reaches 8.5 percent after the first $40,000 in income. A 5 percent surtax takes that rate to 8.95 percent for incomes over $350,000. Yet, half a dozen states have higher and more progressive income tax rates

than that. Obama should call on his allies in the city government to raise the district income tax to the 15 percent level New York had in the 1970s. Since district income taxes are deductible against federal income taxes, this would translate into an actual top tax bite on the Washington rich of 9.75 percent. Is that too much to ask of true progressives? The new revenue could be transferred to Washington’s working class and poor through tax credits, doubly reducing the district’s glaring inequality. Republicans will argue that raising the district tax rate to 15 percent on incomes above $250,000 will precipitate an exodus into Maryland and Virginia. But Obama, who has kept the U.S. corporate tax rate among the highest in the world and wants U.S. personal tax rates raised closer to European levels, rejects this Republican argument. Has he the courage of his convictions? When the district’s schools were desegregated in the 1950s, liberals fled. Let us see if they will stick around for a “progressive income tax” to reduce this unconscionable inequality between Kalorama and Spring Valley — and Anacostia and Turkey Thicket. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?”

Let’s look beyond rhetoric to hard realities 15 to one in 2009. One of the things Race is just one of that turned up, durthe areas in which ing a long-overdue the rhetoric and the cleanup of my office, reality often go in was an old yellowed opposite directions. copy of the New York Political rhetoric is Times dated July 24, Thomas intended to do one 1992. Sowell thing — win votes. One of the frontDemocrats receive page headlines said: Columnist the overwhelming “White-Black Disbulk of the black vote parity in Income Narrowed in 80’s, Census by rhetoric and by presenting what they have done as Shows.” The 1980s? Wasn’t that the big reason that blacks the years of the Reagan ad- have advanced. So long ministration, the “decade of as most blacks and whites greed,” the era of “neglect” alike mistake rhetoric for of the poor and minorities, reality, this political game can go on. if not “covert racism”? A Manhattan Institute More recently, during the administration of America’s study last year by Edward first black president, a 2011 Glaeser and Jacob Vigreport from the Pew Research dor showed that, while the Center has the headline, residential segregation of “Wealth Gaps Rise to Re- blacks has generally been cord Highs Between Whites, declining from the middle of the 20th century to the Blacks and Hispanics.” While the median net present, it was rising durworth of whites was ten ing the first half of the 20th times the median net worth century. The net result is of blacks in 1988, the last that blacks in 2010 were alyear of the Reagan admin- most as residentially unsegistration, the ratio was 19 to regated as they were back in one in 2009, the first year of 1890. There are complex reathe Obama administration. With Hispanics, the ratio sons behind such things, was eight to one in 1988 and but the bottom line is plain.

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The many laws, programs and policies designed to integrate residential housing cannot be automatically assumed to translate into residentially integrated housing. Government is not the sole factor, nor necessarily the biggest factor, no matter what impression political rhetoric gives. No city is more liberal in its rhetoric and policies than San Francisco. Yet there are less than half as many blacks living in San Francisco today as there were in 1970. One of the many reasons why rhetoric does not automatically translate into reality is that the ramifications of so many government policies produce results completely different from what was claimed, or even believed, when these policies were imposed. The poverty rate among blacks was nearly cut in half in the 20 years prior to the 1960s, a record unmatched since then, despite the expansion of welfare state policies in the 1960s. Unemployment among black 16 and 17-year-old males was 12 percent back

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in 1950. Yet unemployment rates among black 16 and 17-year-old males has not been less than 30 percent for any year since 1970 — and has been over 40 percent in some of those years. While many politicians and “leaders” have claimed credit for black progress, no one seems to be willing to take the blame for the retrogressions represented by higher unemployment rates, higher crime rates, and higher rates of imprisonment today. Or for the disintegration of the black family, which survived centuries of slavery and generations of governmentimposed discrimination in the Jim Crow era, but began coming apart in the wake of the expansion of the liberal welfare state and its accompanying social dogmas. The time is long overdue to start looking beyond the prevailing political rhetoric to the hard realities. Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, Ca. 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com.

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State Community colleges seek Lawmakers increase budget 39 percent funding raise estimates for next 2 years BY LAURA TILLMAN Associated Press

JACKSON — About 100 community college students, teachers and administrators gathered at the state Capitol this week to ask Mississippi legislators for more money to meet the needs of a student population that has grown as the economy has struggled. Wearing green t-shirts that played off the “Survivor” TV show logo, students enrolled in some of the state’s 15 community colleges stood on the steps of the second floor rotunda as administrators made the case for a 39 percent funding increase. Eric Clark, executive director of the state Board of Community and Junior Colleges, said community colleges need funding now more than ever. “After the recession our enrollment skyrocketed and our budgets were cut,” Clark said. “We need the Legislature to make community colleges a priority.” The lack of funding has led to bigger classes and more part-time faculty members, plus delays in repairs and renovations on buildings, Clark said. Cory Johnson, a student at Hinds Community College in Raymond, studies computer science. The 19-year-old Johnson said he plans to transfer

after two years to Mississippi State, but is attending Hinds for two years to help make his undergraduate education affordable. Johnson enrolled just as the recession was starting to deepen. “I originally was going to go straight to Mississippi State, but I’d have so many loans, and I was making my decision around the time the economy starting to really home,” Johnson said. Rep. Cecil Brown, DJackson said that tuition has been on the rise. “We are pricing people out of higher education in Mississippi,” he said. Clark asked the crowd three questions: What educational entity is the best bargain? What is the primary entity that trains people for 21st century jobs? And what is the entity that yields the quickest payback on the state’s investment? Community colleges, the crowd responded each time. Clark said he knows money is tight and doesn’t expect to get the full 39 percent increase, but hopes to recover to pre-recession budget levels. The community colleges are hoping that the Legislature can make progress on a four-yearold promise to fund the schools at a pre-student

level halfway between K-12 students and students at regional universities. Community colleges have lost ground on the 2007 goal each of the last four years. Currently, it would take a $2,366 perstudent increase to reach that goal. Clark has said that he doesn’t expect lawmakers to make up that difference in one session.

BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press

JACKSON — Citing better-than-expected tax collections in recent months, Mississippi lawmakers are increasing the pool of money available for the state to spend during the current and coming budget years. The Joint Legislative Budget Committee voted

this week to add about $99 million to the budget for the current year, which ends June 30, and about $130 million to the budget for the coming year, which begins July 1. Those are relatively small additions in state budgets that top $4.6 billion. With the changes, the current year’s budget will be 3.5 percent bigger than last year’s, and the

next fiscal year’s budget will be 1.3 percent bigger than this year’s. State economist Darrin Webb said Mississippi’s economic outlook is slightly stronger now than it was a few months ago, although he described the housing sector as “sluggish” and said the state in 2011 marked its fourth straight year of decreased employment levels.

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