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Recent Commentary
Delta Health Alliance’s Administrative and Program Costs
Imagine a CEO that makes more than Mississippi’s Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer and Secretary of State combined. This CEO isn’t the leader of a successful, innovative company that’s making money for shareholders and creating jobs. Karen Matthews runs a nonprofit, the Delta Health Alliance, whose budget is dependent on taxpayer dollars from both federal and state sources while averaging about $350,000 in salary and benefits in the past seven years.
Read More Mississippi Taxpayers Are Spending More To Educate Fewer Students
The debate on school funding is always based on the amount, but too often, where that money is going is not considered by the pro-increase side. A recent analysis shows that Mississippi taxpayers are spending more to educate fewer students.
Read More The Mississippi River Is Backing Up
You might guess flood stages would move from north to south in the Mid-to-Lower Mississippi River as the waters travel north to south to reach the Gulf of Mexico. You’d be wrong.
Read More MS River in Danger of Being Captured by the Atchafalaya River
Dr. Y. Jun Xu, world-renowned hydrologist of Louisiana State University, explains how South Louisiana is on the verge of one of the worlds most detrimental natural disasters in history.
Read More The River Stands Still
Potential energy, the energy of dropping from a height, is the main driver of MSR waters to the Gulf.
Read More Will the Taxpayer Bail Out MPACT’s Legacy Plan?
College students and recent graduates are not the only ones having trouble paying off tuition debt. It turns out, the Mississippi Prepaid Affordable College Tuition (MPACT) program is in deep trouble with the tuition contracts they are obligated to meet.
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About 600,000 acres in the Delta is flooded from rainwater trapped outside the Mississippi River levee. Rainwater in the Yazoo Basin can’t flow into the river when it’s above flood stage.
Another 600,000 acres in Mississippi inside the levee is also flooded. It has been flooded longer and higher than the Delta by the river which has been above flood stage and outside its channel since January.
This flood is the longest ever because of more rain and not enough discharge to the Gulf. God sends more rain. The US Army Corps of Engineers restricts its discharge.
BPF's View on the Yazoo Backwater Pumps – Bigger Pie Forum
The Pumps will pour water out of the Delta’s boot over the levee at Vicksburg onto people below. They will make flooding higher and longer inside the levee. Landowners in the Delta outside the levee...