Housing advocates and low-income residents sued this week to stop Mississippi from spending a half-billion federal dollars to expand a damaged port rather than replace homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The Mississippi State Conference NAACP (National Association for the Advancement …
In four states along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, Habitat for Humanity came with a mission to build hundreds of homes during a spring blitz so people pushed into poverty after Katrina would have the chance to own a home. Many …
Freshman Sen. Michael Watson knows the sting of rising insurance costs on the hurricane-battered Mississippi Gulf Coast. Watson said after Hurricane Katrina struck more than two years ago, he lost his home’s wind insurance with Farm Bureau so he joined …
Republican Mike Chaney of Vicksburg defeated Democrat Gary Anderson in the insurance commissioner’s race. Anderson’s campaign lost momentum after his Democratic primary win over longtime Insurance Commissioner George Dale. Chaney said rebuilding the Gulf Coast is “paramount.” Thousands of people …
Two congressional leaders on Wednesday asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to reject a Mississippi plan to divert $600 million in Hurricane Katrina housing funds to an expansion project for the State Port at Gulfport. Reps. Barney …
Hoping to get a clearer picture of who’s benefiting from Mississippi’s post-Hurricane Katrina housing grants, a coalition of advocacy groups has filed public records requests with the agency administering the program. The records requests – filed by the National Fair …
Hurricane Katrina has nearly knocked the wind out of George Dale’s re-election campaign for Mississippi insurance commissioner, a job he’s held for 32 years. Dale is the longest-serving state insurance commissioner in the nation. He’s been crisscrossing the state for …
Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale says voters should question attorney Richard Scruggs’ motive for giving $250,000 to a political action committee created to target Dale’s re-election campaign. Scruggs, a high-profile attorney in Oxford, gave the donation to Mississippians for Fair …
The Mississippi AFL-CIO on Wednesday endorsed Gary Anderson as the Democratic candidate for state insurance commissioner. Brenda Scott, a spokeswoman for the labor union and director of the Mississippi Alliance of State Employees, lauded Anderson for refusing to accept campaign …
The Mississippi Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a mother and son who lost a lawsuit that claimed Sherwin Williams Co. was responsible for the lead paint that made the boy sick. The suit was filed in …
