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Recent Commentary
Urban Flash Flooding 2019
Flash flooding hit Belhaven's St. Ann and St. Mary streets yesterday (5/9/2019) as over 3 inches of rain hit the metro area in less than four hours. Bigger Pie has discussed the hazards of urban flooding in the past and remedies that DEQ needs to pursue.
Read More Report of Recommended Changes to Economic Assumptions for PERS
Every two years, the actuaries for Mississippi’s defined benefit pension system release a report that examines the economic and demographic outlooks that underpin the financial planning. The newest one was released last month and the actuaries make some interesting recommendations for the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS).
Read More MDE Teacher Pay Raise Error — A Pattern of Behavior
The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has 550 employees, the highest paid state superintendent of education nationally and a budget this upcoming year of $181 million for the department. So why, when asked by the Legislature, couldn't MDE provide the correct number of teachers across the state that would receive the intended raise?
Read More Cultural Retail Incentive Program Lingers
Despite the cultural retail incentive program dying in 2014, the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) gave the developers multiple deadline extensions on the start of construction expiring in 2022. When a program dies, so should the subsidies. Does it make sense for taxpayers to subsidize brick and mortar retail when this form of business is seeing profits squeezed by online sales?
Read More The Debate in Mississippi Over K-12 Education Spending
The debate in Mississippi over K-12 education spending has always been based on the idea that taxpayers aren’t spending enough and the state is falling behind the rest of the nation as a result. The debate on K-12 education spending not only needs to be about how much is spent, but also on where that money goes.
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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Water flows downhill. The steeper the hill, the faster the flow. The slope from Natchez to the Gulf is a quarter that from the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers’ confluence to Greenville. From New Orleans to the Gulf, the drop is less than ¾ of an inch per river mile. Thirty feet of sediment at Old River Control Structure below Natchez creates a 30-foot-high sediment plug causing water backup and massive sand bars upriver to Vicksburg. During high flow, water is several feet higher at Natchez and Vicksburg than in 1988.
The River Stands Still – Bigger Pie Forum
Potential energy, the energy of dropping from a height, is the main driver of MSR waters to the Gulf.