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The Sedalia Rental Inspection Committee continued to nail down details of the inspector training program during Wednesday night’s meeting. The committee has spent the last several meetings deciding the details of the city offering a certification program. The idea is to have a city- sponsored class offered to citizens wanting to become a rental inspector . Those who complete the course would be included on an approved list given to landlords. Landlords would choose their own inspector from the list to complete the proposed rental inspections . Daniel Shaw, of the Sedalia Fire Department , has been leading the discussions on the inspector certification program , as he will most likely be conducting the course. Wednesday’s meeting began with the committee adding two more items to the checklist, for a total of 24, at the suggestion of member JoAnn Martin . No. 23 will be no large holes in walls, floors or ceilings ...

ICE raids hits Roaring Fork Valley , Carbondale approves policies to ‘gain the trust of immigrants’" title="The Home Front: As word of ICE raids hits Roaring Fork Valley , Carbondale approves policies to ‘gain the trust of immigrants’" /> “Carbondale trustees have approved new town policies in an attempt to gain the trust of immigrants, while word has spread of arrests by federal immigration officials in the Roaring Fork Valley ,” reports The Glenwood Springs Post -Independent . “Ted Hess, a Glenwood Springs immigration attorney , said that several of his immigrant contacts reported numerous arrests early last week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents , though that activity is difficult to verify. Hess said all he has is anecdotal evidence, but he received seven phone calls Aug . 14 from people reporting ICE arrests and activity, and similar accounts followed later in the week. ICE has arrived, he said, and these kinds of raids will be a feature...

federal loans withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015. Photo by bearsky23/via Adobe" width="689" height="402" class="size-large wp-image-225431" /> More than 108,000 students who had taken out federal loans withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015. Photo by bearsky23/via Adobe ATLANTA – Alduha Leon and Jared Sanders, roommates at Savannah State University , dined on hot dogs in their apartment on Thanksgiving Day of their sophomore year. They had decided to skip feasting with family in Atlanta to pick up extra hours at their airport jobs loading luggage onto planes. Payday wasn’t until Friday, though, and Leon only had $5 left on his food stamps card . During the three years they spent at Savannah State , Sanders and Leon struggled to pay their tuition, fees and living expenses. They accumulated more than $50,000 in loans between the two of them, despite working up t...