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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
Most of us like big, beautiful picture books; usually called coffee table books because they’re the kind of books we like to display. They don’t have to have a lot of words as the photographs usually tell the story. How many words have been written about and photos taken of the Mississippi Delta? Still, it [...] [...]
by Lynn Lofton Published: March 19,2012
Tags: Canada, Mike Tagert, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi Transportation Commission, Northern District Highway Commissioner, Pontotoc, Tennessee-Tombigbee Economic Development Council, Toyota, United States, United States Green Building Council
Before he ran in a special election to fill an unexpired term as Northern District Highway Commissioner, Mike Tagert got a taste of working with transportation issues as president of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Economic Development Council. This group that focuses solely on logistics and the transportation component of bringing in new industry made him feel he [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 7,2012
Tags: agriculture, appeal, Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners, Clean Water Act, courts, Cynthia Sarthou, economy, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, federal government, flood, flood control, flooding, Gov. Haley Barbour, habitat, judge, judicial, judiciary, local government, Louie Miller, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi River, North Mississippi, Peter Nimrod, politics Tags: American Rivers, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Roger Wicker, Sen. Thad Cochran, South Delta, state government, Stupidity, the Gulf Restoration Network, the National Wildlife Federation, The Sierra Club, U.S. Congress, U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock, VICKSBURG, Washington, wildlife, Yazoo Backwater Project
NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court panel sided yesterday with the Environmental Protection Agency over its 2008 veto of a $220 million flood control project near the Yazoo River in the south Mississippi Delta. >> RELATED: EPA admits it has no experts on Yazoo Pump Project. The Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners sued the [...] [...]
by Ross Reily Published: September 13,2011
Tags: agriculture, banking and finance, Baxter Laboratories, Bolivar County, Calisolar, CLEVELAND, Coahoma County, construction, Delta Revitalization Task Force, DeSoto County, education, employment, environment, federal government, Greenville, Greenville Bridge, HCL Cleantech, healthcare, higher education, House Bill 1034, Issaquena County, jobs, KIOR, Leflore County, manufacturing, Memphis, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Delta, municipal government, oil spill, publicly traded company, real estate, retail, Riverbend Crossing, Sharkey County, Soladigm, state agency, Stion, Sunflower County, Tallahatchie County, tourism, Twin Creeks, unemployment, utilities, VICKSBURG, Washington County, Weather
The Mississippi Delta continues to flounder as unemployment figures average around 18 percent for the 12 counties between Vicksburg and Memphis. Yet, there have been many jobs announcements in the years of the Barbour administration, but very few have had anything to do with the Mississippi Delta. In this latest barrage of economic development announcements, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 11,2011
Tags: Bolivar, capitalism, courts, economic development, Greenville, homes, houses, housing, Humphreys, investigation, Issaquena, Joshua Howat Berger, Leland, misappropriations, Mississippi Delta, politics Tags: AJ Jefferson, Racism, real estate, Sharkey, Social Issues, South Delta Regional Housing Authority, Stupidity, Sunflower, witness tampering
GREENVILLE — A Sept. 26 trial date has been set for the director of the South Delta Regional Housing Authority and a contractor in a federal criminal case, according to The Delta Democrat-Times. ••• SEE ANALYSIS AT EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK ••• SEE MORE COVERAGE Ann Jefferson, who is on administrative leave as the authority’s executive director, [...] [...]
The U.S. Senate has confirmed the appointment of a top aide to Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe as head of the Delta Regional Authority, a federal agency that works to enhance the economy of the impoverished Mississippi Delta region in eight states. The Senate confirmed Chris Masingill as federal co-chair of the panel, a full-time post [...] [...]
by Stephen McDill Published: May 10,2010
Tags: catfish, Chip Morgan, Clarksdale, cotton, Delta Council, farming, Leland, Mississippi, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi State University, regionalism, Stoneville, Thad Cochran, Travis Satterfield
STONEVILLE- MBJ-TV photojournalist Stephen McDill visits with Delta Council vice-president Chip Morgan to discuss the economic development organization’s work in the Mississippi Delta regional. [...]
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