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By-Passing Council Shuts Public Out of Process

By Woody Jenkins CENTRAL — When City Councilmen tell you they feel the City Council has been emasculated and has no significant role to play in city government, you know there’s a problem. Unfolding before us are the most important decisions facing Central in this four-year period: • Whether the entire city government will continue to […]

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No Tolls, Fiefdoms for New Hooper Road Bridge

By Woody Jenkins CENTRAL — For the past six years, the Central City News has pushed hard for extending Hooper Road across the Amite River to Watson with a new four-lane bridge. We have said repeatedly that such a bridge would be the greatest single step we could take to alleviate Central’s daily traffic problems and […]

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