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August 23rd, 2010
“As a part of the Marine Highway Program, federal transportation officials selected eight projects that will receive preferential treatment for future federal assistance. Included is the Tenn-Tom Freight Project, a proposed container-on-barge service between Mobile and the Port of Itawamba in northeast Mississippi.”
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May 12th, 2010
I always wondered how a grassroots organization suddenly came up with a fleet of shiny, brand spanking new, $1+ million dollar (each) buses to cart around the party’s faithful. Soccer Moms holding bake sales? Maybe Joe the Plumber chipped in the rest, ya think?
Well, this reporter has done the research for us, [...]
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April 27th, 2010
It appears as if toxic Chinese drywall products were sold here in the southeast for a much longer period of time than was originally thought. Why does it not surprise me to learn that this toxic junk first appeared on our shores shortly after the arrival of this toxic junk:
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April 21st, 2010
Time to throw out that old clunker and get one of them thar new fangled ice box thingy’s. Thanks to a 2.8 million dollar grant from the American Recovery Act the program encourages folks to replace their old appliances with more efficient ones.
”The State of Mississippi will implement a mail-in rebate [...]
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April 21st, 2009
And if the large ISP carriers(ATT and Verizon) have their way, it will remain just that, a pipedream. Efforts are underway to have wireless networks classified as “broadband” in an attempt to get a bigger slice of the Stimulus pie. And we all know that wireless networks are very far from “broadband”, and especially [...]