Could Project Crawfish reel in promised state port jobs Sun Herald GULFPORT -- The president and CEO of global maritime company Edison Chouest, Gary Chouest, is expected to join Gov. Phil Bryant on Monday morning at state port offices to sign final agreements for expansion of Topship...
HUD’s racism charge could nudge Ridgeland into settling housing bias issues Mississippi Business Journal Ridgeland officials, as well as their outside legal counsel, have been silent on the series of state and federal lawsuits their zoning mandates have brought. Before the lawsuits, however, city officials said health and...
Gov. Bryant won’t grant waiver from SNAP work rule Mississippi won't be giving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients a break from a work requirement that went back into effect Jan. 1. Recipients between 18 and 50 years old who are able to work and don't have children...
SNAP assistance: no job, no help Mississippi Public Broadcasting The Federal Government requires that people 18 to 49 years of age with no children get a job to be eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Because of it's high jobless rate, that rule has not applied...
Letter to Congress: 212 Groups urge you to support a strong payday lending rule US Public Interest Research Group For Immediate Release THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2015 December 15, 2015 Dear Member of Congress: The undersigned civil rights, consumer, labor, faith, veterans, seniors, and community organizations, strongly urge you to oppose H.R....
Community to Corps: Give us more facts about proposed expansion Sun Herald GULFPORT -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers needs to finish its homework before ending the public's chance to comment on a study that assesses the environmental impact of another proposed port expansion, community advocates...
Charlotte Observer Associated Press Gulfport’s 36-foot ship channel serves two tenants that carry containerized cargo, Dole Fresh Fruit and Crowley. The port wants a deeper channel to serve bigger ships, but the process is long and costly. But a deeper ship channel has been scrapped as part of...
Sun Herald Anita Lee SAUCIER -- A mother and daughter's Katrina odyssey ended at Christmas, after they lived for four years on the family property, without water or electricity, in a leaking dome tent and then metal sheds. A new mobile home was delivered to Nancy Fauth's four...
Sun Herald Anita Lee The state port will have at least until the end of 2019 -- more than 14 years after Hurricane Katrina -- to create jobs promised in exchange for more than $566 million in federal hurricane-relief funds, a letter from the federal government says. The...
Huffington Post Christina Wilkie JACKSON, Miss. -- To drive down Ellis Avenue, just off the interstate, is to visit a paradise of easy money. Along a four-block drag of fast food joints and half-empty strip malls, the payday lenders are packed in tight. The names on their...
