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Oct 31, 2024 | 
magnoliatribune.com | Kelley Williams
Kelley Williams writes that while climate virtue signalers seek carbon neutral unicorns, reality and competition intrude. If you google SMR (small modular nuclear reactor), you may get over 100 hits. I did. The links are to enthusiastic reports from various sources about the future of SMR generated electricity to meet growing demand from data centers. Amazon is building a data center near Canton and plans another near Ridgeland.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
magnoliatribune.com | Kelley Williams
Kelley Williams writes that the Corps of Engineers makes floods worse for some and better for others. I used to write about Mississippi River floods due to Corps of Engineers projects. Yep, that’s right. The Corps causes floods. Wait, you thought rain caused floods. OK, it does. But the Corps makes floods worse for some and better for others. Its levees make flooding worse for those inside the levees. And better for those outside the levees.
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May 9, 2024 | 
grenadastar.com | Kelley Williams
By KELLEY WILLIAMS, JR. Thu,05/09/24-10:51AM, 11 Reads 326 StatewideI had the opportunity recently to listen to Dexter Van Zile, an expert on the Middle East, discuss the situation in Israel and Gaza and the corresponding public reaction in the US. Mr. By KELLEY WILLIAMS, JR. Tue,11/29/22-11:18PM, 632 Reads 22,321 StatewideA certain man living by the highway found himself prostrate on the concrete underpass near the intersection.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
magnoliatribune.com | Kelley Williams
Kelley Williams says Amazon came to Mississippi because it got a good deal on cheap reliable electricity but exempting the project from PSC oversight may have thrown Entergy’s 461,000 customers under the bus. The Governor recently announced that Amazon Web Services will spend $10 billion on two hyperscale data centers in Mississippi. This is a big deal for Mississippi and for Madison County – where site prep for the first data center is underway.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
magnoliatribune.com | James Piereson |Hans Zeiger |Kelley Williams |Sid Salter
President Biden’s sliding poll numbers have set off alarm signals among Democrats who are beginning to see that he might lose the 2024 election to Donald Trump. Those polls have also gotten the attention of pundits who have confidently said for three years now that Trump could never again win a national election. The polling results published over the past few months suggest otherwise: Trump is currently the favorite to win next year’s election.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
magnoliatribune.com | Kelley Williams |Russ Latino |Sid Salter |Phil Hardwick
KiOR was a green energy scam. It was supposed to turn Mississippi pine trees into diesel. It was promoted by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Vinod Kosler and backed by a popular Mississippi Governor. Its first plant near Columbus was funded by a $75 million interest free “loan” from the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA). KiOR never produced any diesel. Its experimental reactor didn’t work (like Kemper’s experimental gasifier). KiOR bit the dust in 2014. It went bankrupt.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
magnoliatribune.com | Sid Salter |Russ Latino |Kelley Williams |Phil Hardwick
At least once a week, I walk by on-campus memorial stones commemorating the senseless murders of Mississippi State University students Jon Stephen Steckler and Pamela Tiffany Miller on the night of Dec. 11, 1992. Jon’s parents and both sets of grandparents have passed away as has Tiffany’s mother and her parents. Left to mourn them are their siblings and a few other relatives, but their names and memories endure on the campus they loved. The pair had been on a date.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
grenadastar.com | Kelley Williams
Mississippi Power’s Kemper County Lignite Plant boondoggle is in the news again. A whistleblower named Kelli Williams (no relation) says company officials lied to get $382 million of federal money for the $7.5 billion failed experiment. She’s suing Mississippi Power and its Southern Company parent under the False Claims Act.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
magnoliatribune.com | Kelley Williams |Patrick Drennan |Sarah Ulmer |Frank Corder
Mississippi Power’s Kemper County Lignite Plant boondoggle is in the news again. A whistleblower named Kelli Williams (no relation) says company officials lied to get $382 million of federal money for the $7.5 billion failed experiment. She’s suing Mississippi Power and its Southern Company parent under the False Claims Act. She’s seeking $1.1 billion in treble damages. She was a Southern Company construction manager assigned to the Kemper project. She had a ringside view of the coverups.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
magnoliatribune.com | Sid Salter |Kelley Williams |Frank Corder |Alistair Begg
Everyday citizens are looking at our lawmakers, now more than ever, to see who will do the right thing and put the American people first. We are relying on our Members of Congress to preserve the values on which our country was founded. Unfortunately, it seems that certain Republican lawmakers are choosing to side with socialists like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when it comes to prescription drug pricing, even if it means moving our country towards a universal health care system.
