Published in the Sun Herald A day of reckoning arrived for BP on Thursday as the oil company agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay a record $4.5 billion in a settlement with the government over the deadly 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the...
American Bar Association Journal Rachel M. Zahorsky That was it. Nothing more could be done. Two years after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, Tina Copeland’s American dream was over. Her Mississippi Gulf Coast business was hemorrhaging funds, her marriage torn apart. Though billions were offered to settle...
Published in Shore Magazine Denise DeClue “The past is never dead,” wrote Mississippi writer William Faulkner. "It’s not even past.” I grew up in Missouri, digging up Civil War relics and arrowheads from the nearby woods and thought it was the Midwest until I came north and realized...
Published in the Clarion Ledger In the Oct. 10 article, “Bryant: Federal health law hurts Miss. economy,” Gov. Phil Bryant repeated his opposition to expanding Medicaid. As health law director for the Mississippi Center for Justice, I know that expanding Medicaid will not only help hundreds of...
Mississippi Attorney General Jackson, MS-Attorney General Jim Hood announced that his office has created the Mississippi Foreclosure Prevention Consortium to assist homeowners who are struggling as a result of the foreclosure crisis. The consortium was created through funding provided under the National Mortgage Settlement that was...
Jackson Free Press Dustin Cardon, Donna Ladd, Ronni Mott Few eyes were dry when Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of Jackson civil-rights hero Medgar Evers, stood in front of 600 people in downtown Jackson Thursday night and declared her love for Mississippi and for her first husband, gunned...
Published in the Clarion Ledger Jimmie E. Gates It was like honoring royalty as a sellout crowd of 600 people gathered in downtown Jackson to say “we love you” to two Mississippi icons. It was a night to show love for a woman of courage, Myrlie Evers-Williams, and...
published in the Sun Herald In late August 2005, one day before an obscure tropical depression formed over the Bahamas, almost 3,000 Coast residents turned out to protest state plans to drill offshore for oil and gas. Within a week, that tropical depression had entered the Gulf...
published in the Sun Herald Anita Lee GULFPORT -- The state port is spending more than $560 million to expand its West Pier, where four current tenants will operate, but has not secured long-term leases with those tenants, according to a review ordered by Gov. Phil Bryant. Also,...
New York Times John Schwartz BALTIMORE — The four cranes rise grandly over the port here, 14 stories high. Just off the boat from China and now being prepared for operations, the $40 million machines are part of this city’s gamble that when supersize container ships start...
