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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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Duties on Vietnamese catfish a start but may have come too late

Ted Carter — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:41:58 +0000

A Commerce Department decision to put duties on frozen catfish fillets exported from Vietnam helps to level the competitive field but may have come too late to reverse a substantial decline in U.S. production. The Commerce Department ruling is an about-face for the trade regulatory agency that has refused pleas from catfish producers in Misssissippi [...]

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Chuck McIntosh- March 22, 2013

Chuck McIntosh — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:03:35 +0000

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Catfish Farming: Future fading on a ‘A Great American Story’

Ted Carter — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:01:52 +0000

Don’t look for a lot of glee at a gathering of business people who have lost 80 percent of their market share in the last 10 years. Such was the case with the mid-February annual meeting of the Catfish Farmers of America at Little Rock’s Peabody Hotel. Reporting on the gathering, the hometown Arkansas Democrat-Gazette [...]

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Delta State reintroduces toughest vegetable in higher education

Stephen McDill — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:11:15 +0000

The biologists may call it “abelmoschus esculentus” but down here in the South its better known as okra. A native of West Africa that is cousin to cotton and popularly served up fried or in Creole gumbo, okra is now getting talked up by ESPN and David Letterman thanks to a Bolivar County university and [...]

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Grammy Museum is expected to bring an economic boom to the Mississippi Delta

Clay Chandler — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:47:23 +0000

The first Grammy Museum outside Los Angeles is coming to Cleveland, and with it comes an economic boom for Cleveland, Bolivar County and the Delta. With a goal of raising $15 million and getting the project completed in the next 24 months, hopes are high. “The fund raising is going quite well,” said Allan Hammons, [...]

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Mississippi River Marathon hopes to raise money and awareness

Clay Chandler — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 06:01:00 +0000

The inaugural Mississippi River Marathon started with a conversation between two Teach for America corps members. Those putting on the race, set for February in Greenville and Lake Village, Ark., say it could end up paying nice dividends for the Delta and for the teacher-placement organization. Chris Marsh and a Teach for America colleague came [...]

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Delta Council: Anguish of 2011 flood abates with new planting season

Ted Carter — Sun, 20 May 2012 06:01:50 +0000

CLEVELAND — Mississippi Delta farmers took a hit estimated as high as $80 million in last spring’s flooding. But as is the custom in the Delta, despair must give way to renewed optimism with the arrival of the spring planting season. The financial consequences of the Mississippi River flooding last spring that submerged 200 square [...]

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Army Corps of Engineers: Backwater levees must be raised or face de-certification

Ted Carter — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:06:59 +0000

The Mississippi Delta may finally be drying out after an historic flood inundated 200 square miles of the region last spring. But the flood left behind a giant-sized worry for the region — the prospect of de-certification of the Yazoo Backwater Levee. Federal officials say the recent flooding showed the 27-mile long flood protection berm [...]

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MARTY WISEMAN: Redistricting a consequence of 2012 election

Marty Wiseman — Sun, 06 May 2012 06:01:22 +0000

Joint Resolution 1, the redistricting plan for the Mississippi House of Representatives, has been introduced, debated, and passed. This exercise in the redistricting process, which is one of the most political functions undertaken in all of the activities required of a legislative body, is a tough, bitter exercise in partisan politics. Basically, the redistricting motivation [...]

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