Publisher's Commentary
Clarion-Ledger articles on Delta hurt
Delta, hurt Mississippi
What do you get when you cross a sports
writer, an environmentalists and someone named after a Nintendo game?
Why an in-depth "expert" analysis of the Delta by the Clarion-Ledger
of course!
Recently, Mississippi's largest
daily newspaper, the Clarion-Ledger published a series of
articles on the Mississippi Delta.
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Clarksdale Educational Partnership
reaches goal
Higher education soon to come to Clarksdale
and Coahoma County
At a press conference held Friday December 17th,
the Clarksdale Educational Partnership Committee announced they had achieved
their goal, set on July 8th of this year, to raise $750,000 to purchase
the St. Elizabeth School property. This property includes the historic
Cutrer Mansion which was facing demolition at that time.
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Glendora: Living On Its Own
A town pulling itself up by the
bootstraps
If he gets paid at all, "Johnny B" Thomas gets paid
last when the money comes in at the end of the month. But the director
of the Glendora Economic and Community Development Corporation and mayor
of Glendora, Mississippi, works as hard in the sweet potato fields as anybody
else. This fall's harvest has yielded a good first crop for Glendora,
although it was planted late due to lack of funds.
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Delta Development
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January 2000 Issue
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Bank of Anguilla President,
Fred Miller
Small town banker committed to
the South Delta.
Bank of Anguilla president and chief executive officer, Fred Miller, is
one of the South Delta's most concerned citizens. Having been with
the Bank of Anguilla since 1971, Miller has seen the bad times descend
on his area of the Delta, especially in agriculture. Sharkey and Issaquena
Counties consistently show high unemployment figures - some of the highest
in the state. However, despite the area's problems, there are those that
have made lifetime commitments to that region. Fred Miller has made this
committment.
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Delta and Pine Land Company Moves
Forward as an Independent Business
Delta and Pine Land Company (D&PL) announced
today that it will not consummate the merger with Monsanto as Roger Malkin,
chairman and chief executive officer said, Monsanto has not been able to
reach agreement with the government regulators reviewing the merger.
Malkin continued by saying "Although the failure
to obtain approval is certainly disappointing, it offers resolution to
a long process. We will move forward operating as we have since I
came to D&PL, continuing the entrepreneurial spirit which made us the
market leader in the cotton seed business. This means Delta and Pine
Land will continue operating as a customer-focused independent company,
offering farmer the highest quality genetics, technology, information and
seed.'
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What Does the HMO Scorecard Look
Like?
How Will Healthcare in the Delta
Be Affected?
With the sudden departure of Mississippi Managed
Care
Network, the only health maintenance organization
that
provided Medicaid coverage, how will the Delta
be
affected?
Jana Clark, executive director of
Diagnostic Imaging
of Greenville, said time will tell.
"In terms of managed care, it seems
as though we're about three years behind larger markets like Jackson, Memphis
and Little Rock," Clark said. "I don't know that we will ever feel the
full effects of managed care to the degree that the largers do."
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