Submit Public Comments on the Personhood Amendment

From Mims:

For those of you who cannot attend the Public Hearings on Initiative 26, the 'Personhood Amendment', the Secretary of State has set up a comments site. From here you can click to submit a comment or view comments.

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Mississippi Deserves Safe Drinking Water

We know that Mississippi is the most religious state, but I never imagined how primitive this state is in other ways compared to the rest of the U.S. I continue to marvel at how people who grew up here put up with conditions that would not be tolerated in many other parts of the country. Take one of the most basic services as an example, that of safe drinking water. Before moving to Mississippi, this was something I simply took for granted. I never had to think about it and recall maybe one "boil-water notice" being issued every 5 years or so.

If you take a look at the information provided here by the Mississippi State Department of Health, you'll see what I mean. And this is typical. A big storm is not necessary. On any given day, one will find several of these notices, telling residents that their tap water is not safe to drink. One of the recent ones I was under told me that E. Coli was found in a sample of the drinking water that goes to roughly 17,000 people.

These boil-water alerts usually do not last more than a few days, but we've had a few that lasted more than 5 days. People in some parts of Mississippi are not even that lucky. I have seen some of these notices last over 30 days.

I cannot imagine this being tolerated anywhere else I have lived, but I rarely hear a complaint about it locally. I keep wondering how we got to the point where something as vital as the safety of our water supply became an afterthought.

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Why Let a Little Religion Bother You?

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Central MS Atheists Meeting in Vicksburg

The Central MS Atheist Meetup Group is planning to meet for dinner on July 8 in Vicksburg, MS. For details, visit their Meetup.com page. This could be a good opportunity for atheists in the Vicksburg area to get together.

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