Chip Morgan on Delta Council
STONEVILLE- MBJ-TV photojournalist Stephen McDill visits with Delta Council vice-president Chip Morgan to discuss the economic development organization’s work in the Mississippi Delta regional.
View ArticleEmail from Nash to Delta Council’s Morgan included in DHA court file
According to Democratic strategist Jere Nash, there are two kinds of embarrassment Mississippi public officials can endure – the public kind and the kind that comes from their peer and social groups....
View ArticleRecords: DHA paid Delta Council $1M for ‘administrative’ services
The Delta Health Alliance has paid an average of $272,000 the past four years for an administrative contract with the Delta Council. Those figures are spelled out in DHA tax returns. In 2008, DHA paid...
View ArticleArmy Corps of Engineers: Backwater levees must be raised or face...
The Mississippi Delta may finally be drying out after an historic flood inundated 200 square miles of the region last spring. But the flood left behind a giant-sized worry for the region — the prospect...
View ArticleDelta Council: Anguish of 2011 flood abates with new planting season
CLEVELAND — Mississippi Delta farmers took a hit estimated as high as $80 million in last spring’s flooding. But as is the custom in the Delta, despair must give way to renewed optimism with the...
View ArticleWith Brent Christensen, Mississippi Development Authority gets its man
In Gray Swoope, Mississippi lost its last top economic development professional to Florida in the spring of 2011. Now Mississippi has reached into Florida to bring Brent Christensen, Gainesville Area...
View ArticleThis time Cochran brings more power to another swing at Farm Bill
Chip Morgan of the Delta Council isn’t in the business of trying to predict what Congress will do. But of this he is certain: Thad Cochran, Mississippi’s senior senator, will be on hand when the Senate...
View ArticleDelta State honors Chip Morgan
Delta Council executive vice president Chip Morgan was bestowed with one of Delta State University’s highest honors — an honorary doctor of public service degree. A native of Oxford, Morgan graduated...
View ArticleDelta Council fears new delay in Asian catfish inspections in works
CLEVELAND – Delta Council officials are worried that U.S. Department of Agriculture inspections of imported catfish may be delayed two years beyond next year’s expected start of USDA inspections of...
View ArticleGov. Phil Bryant names 4 men to 9-year College Board terms
JACKSON — Gov. Phil Bryant has named four men to nine-year terms on the College Board that would begin May 9. Delta Council Executive Vice President Chip Morgan of Leland was named to a central...
View ArticleMDA's Brent Christensen leaving for Greensboro (N.C.) Partnership
By JACK WEATHERLY Mississippi Development Authority Executive Director Brent Chistensen is leaving the post he has held for three years to become president and chief executive of the Greensboro (N.C.)...
View ArticleChristensen talks with the media in North Carolina
In an interview prior to the announcement of the Brent Christensen leaving the Mississippi Development Authority, the new head of the Greensboro (N.C.) Partnership sat down with the Triad Business...
View ArticleSource: McCullough a leading candidate for MDA job
By JACK WEATHERLY Glenn L. McCullough Jr., former mayor of Tupelo and chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority board, is a leading candidate to become executive director of the Mississippi...
View ArticleBILL CRAWFORD: Boyce takes hot spot as IHL commissioner
Ready or not, Dr. Glenn Boyce has been named IHL Commissioner. He steps into the hot spot abandoned by MUW president Dr. Jim Borsig and recently vacated by now University of Nebraska system president...
View ArticleMississippian Glenn McCullough Jr. gets nod as new MDA chief
By TED CARTER An executive search that never left Mississippi has led to the appointment of Glenn L. McCullough Jr., former mayor of Tupelo and chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority board, as...
View ArticleIncreasing gas tax makes for tough politics, adviser says
JACKSON — Mississippi will need strong bipartisan leadership if officials want to increase the gasoline tax to pay for highways, bridges and other transportation needs, the policy director of a...
View Article‘The City’ is coming to Marks — Amtrak service will stop in Delta town as...
By BECKY GILLETTE The announcement that Amtrak will add a flag stop at Marks in the heart of the Delta is already generating quite a buzz in the Delta and beyond. Marks Mayor Joe Shegog recently did an...
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