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Officials hoping quail numbers will rebound

Wally Northway — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:57:15 +0000

Wayne Ranson grew up in the Mississippi Delta with a passion for the outdoors. Quail hunting ranked among his favorite pastimes, and he once raised and trained pointers and could literally quail hunt from his home if he wanted. But, that is just all a warm memory now. “They’re almost all gone,” said Ranson, a [...]

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Department of Environmental Quality developing water sources plan

Ted Carter — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:50:09 +0000

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality is preparing regulations that will govern how oil and gas companies use both surface and below-ground water sources in their water-intensive hydraulic fracturing operations in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale development. What the agency comes up with could determine whether Mississippi ever sees the billions of dollars in economic impact [...]

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Counties ‘hoping to get it right’ as they await Tuscaloosa Marine shale boom

Ted Carter — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:41:33 +0000

Folks in Southwest Mississippi may not realize it but boardrooms of oil companies from New York to Odessa, Texas, have their little part of the world in their cross-hairs. Lured by the prospect of extracting billions of barrels of premium oil and gas from a couple miles below ground, the companies are coming to town [...]

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IHL launches minority business enterprise

Clay Chandler — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:24:09 +0000

The College Board has started a program trustees hope will ease the procurement process between minority-owned businesses and state universities. The Mississippi Public University Minority Economic Opportunity Initiative is designed to ensure minority-owned businesses have everything they need to be included in the bidding process when universities start one. “The Board of Trustees has asked [...]

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“College Hunks Hauling Junk” franchise opens in Capital City

Stephen McDill — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:16:12 +0000

College Hunks Hauling Junk. The company’s name itself is a conversation piece, according to owner Carl Carter. Carter opened the Jackson moving services franchise in January at the age of 50 after spending more than 20 years in the insurance industry. “Some people may find it a little crazy,” Carter says. “After you’ve done something [...]

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Is danger ahead for utility companies?

Becky Gillette — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:54:11 +0000

At one time telephone companies had monopolies providing landline telephones. Deregulation meant that telephone companies were split up, people could choose which company to get service from, and telephone companies lost their monopoly. Later, cell phones further disrupted the landline telephone company model. Could monopoly power companies be the next business model to be disrupted [...]

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Internet connectivity is up in rural areas but need is still there

Lynn Lofton — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:50:43 +0000

Internet connectivity is spreading through rural Mississippi but there is still work to be done. Internet access needs can vary widely and adoption of this connectivity still remains a hurdle, say groups working on these challenges. The governor’s office and the Mississippi Broadband Connect Coalition could not give a figure for the percentage of the [...]

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Stabenow, Cochran brace for full Senate vote on Farm Bill

Ted Carter — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:37:18 +0000

The Senate Agriculture Committee’s 2013 Farm Bill is in the midst of a critical test this week on the Senate floor, where the $955 billion measure is expected to draw opposition from lawmakers who wanted more money taken from farm subsidies and less from the nation’s food stamp program. However, the Senate’s bill has stirred [...]

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Gulf Coast group honors state’s surviving World War II veterans

Stephen McDill — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:35:55 +0000

It will be wheels up for the last time this October when the Mississippi Gulf Coast Honor Flight (MGCHF) holds its final flight to honor the state’s surviving World War II veterans. The organization announced last week that Honor Flight VI will depart from Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport on Oct. 1. The chartered flight is free [...]

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BOOK BIZ: Life in small town can be meaning of love and family

Lynn Lofton — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:01:50 +0000

This work of nonfiction is an ode to family and the meaning of home. It’s part memoir, part tribute and part exploration of the cultural ties that bind. With Mississippi made up of small towns, Mississippi readers can relate to this book. The sub title, “A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of [...]

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