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‘The Tunica Miracle’

Nash Nunnery — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 06:01:38 +0000

The memories of Sugar Ditch Alley and the nation’s highest rate of poverty made infamous by a 1960s network television documentary have all but faded in Tunica County. An impoverished neighborhood in the Town of Tunica, Sugar Ditch Alley was so named for the open sewer located there. With the advent of the gaming industry [...]

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Six months later, still lots of questions, few answers surrounding GreenTech

Clay Chandler — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:44:31 +0000

Almost exactly six months ago, Tunica County was the site of one of the most bizarre economic development announcements in recent Mississippi history. Xiaolin “Charles” Wang, a Chinese businessman, donned a hard hat and said he planned to build in Tunica a $1-billion hybrid vehicle manufacturing facility that would produce 1,500 vehicles a year and [...]

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TUNICA WAITS

Clay Chandler — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:01:42 +0000

As two major developments are on back burner, Tunica County’s unemployment rate sits at 13 percent Mississippi’s unemployment rate has, for the past 12 months, averaged 8.9 percent. Aside from plunging tax revenue that is forcing lawmakers to make some uncomfortable decisions with the state’s budget, the unemployment rate is the starkest indicator that the effects [...]

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