ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has developed three debris management guidance documents in response to this weekend’s storm events. MDEQ is providing information to local governments on selecting temporary emergency debris sites, the locations of existing solid waste sites, and dealing with asbestos. “As a native of Yazoo County, I understand [...] [...]
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — President Barack Obama is expressing his concern for the people of Mississippi after a deadly tornado struck the state over the weekend. Obama called Gov. Haley Barbour on yesterday to discuss the federal response to the storms. At least 10 people in rural Mississippi and two in Alabama died from the storms. [...] [...]
ELLISVILLE — Intel recently honored Howard Technology Solutions with its 2009 award for the Most Innovative Mobile Solution at the annual Intel Solutions Summit. Howard was selected for this award for Tacticomm, which Howard developed as a means to assist first-responders in mounting well-coordinated responses to emergency or crisis situations and managing public safety at [...] [...]
NEW ORLEANS — An arbitration panel ruled yesterday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency must pay almost half a billion dollars to replace the hospital that served New Orleans’ poor before it was heavily damaged in Hurricane Katrina. The decision ended a long-running dispute between the state and the federal agency, which argued that damage [...] [...]
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 79 counties in Mississippi as primary natural disaster areas due to losses caused by the combined effects of severe spring and fall flooding and summer drought, that occurred March 1, 2009, and continuing. Farm operators in the other three counties — Kemper, Neshoba and Newton [...] [...]
JONES COUNTY — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) announced approval of $2.4 million in federal funding to support the construction of a community safe room complex in Jones County, Miss. The $2.4 million represents 75 percent of the estimated cost for constructing a community safe room that can withstand hurricane and [...] [...]
JACKSON — A $19.4-million grant has been awarded to the Mississippi Wireless Communication Commission to help build the Mississippi Wireless Integrated Network, an interoperable wireless network for first responders. The grant was presented by the Mississippi Office of Homeland Security, in conjunction with the Mississippi Department of Public Safety. The funding will be used to [...] [...]
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