Billions of dollars to be passed down
Wealth transfer will be significant in the Delta over the next fifty year By Susan Montgomery Within then next 10 to 50 years, wealth from the baby boomer generation will be inherited by their children or other beneficiaries. How much will that be? Nationwide, about $30 trillion, researchers say. In Mississippi, the amount is expected […]
Southern Bancorp Helping People Climb Economic Security Ladder
Unique banking operation plays large role in the Delta By Becky Gillette Southern Bancorp is a different kind of bank. It’s a bank on a mission. That mission is to help people in some of the most economically depressed areas of the country not only have access to financing, but educational opportunities to learn how […]
Transportation Industry Challenges
Driver Shortage, Infrastructure Shortcomings and Regulations By Mark H. Stowers Products, commodities, raw and finished goods have to get from one place to another whether by highway, the river or sometimes train. Across the Delta trucking companies and other transportation providers are feeling the challenge of finding qualified and capable drivers, finding their way through […]
Community Foundation of Northwest MS launches Public Policy Campaign
Strategy is to increase awareness By Susan Montgomery Sometime in August, the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi will run a series of print and television ads, a public awareness campaign. The fifteen-year-old foundation has distributed about $20 million in donations to charities and non-profits in eleven counties from Desoto to Leflore, but its leaders believe […]
Henk van Riessen
Delta Precision Technologies, LLC By Susan Montgomery Henk van Riessen’s one of those lucky people who grew up understanding what his vocational field would be. “At age 12, I already knew I would go to agriculture school ,” said van Riessen. And he did. That let him in 1993 he to Auburn University in Alabama, […]
Delta Students Get College Experience during Ole Miss Visit
By Christina Steube Students from Madison S. Palmer High School in Marks got a hands-on learning experience in a college atmosphere recently when they visited the University of Mississippi’s Department of Biology. These students attended learning sessions in Shoemaker Hall, where they participated in field sampling, isolated DNA and learned to use a microscope to […]
Delta Supper Club- For the love of food
By AMILE WILSON • Photography by Rory Doyle Everyone knows the Delta has plenty of stories to tell, some nearly everyone knows while others remain hidden. Before Stewart Robison transplanted to the Mississippi Delta, he heard many of those stories from his grandfather, a Delta native. He looked for a way to unify his love […]
The Importance of Ag Pilots to the Mississippi Delta
By Angela Rogalski All across the Mississippi Delta, and the entire country, for that matter, Ag pilots gear up for their day very early and get into the mindset they need to do their job. It’s an important service they provide, treating and protecting the crops we all need for food and the many other […]
Special Report- Construction Industry
By MARK H. STOWERS The building of America has waxed and waned under assorted presidents. In 1927, Herbert Hoover—a civil engineer by trade—actually picked up his drawing tools and volunteered his services to help configure how to shore up the massive Mississippi River Levee and other flood control mechanisms. The great river will never be […]
GreenTech Automotive
Future Looks Dim for Delta Plant By Becky Gillette The GreenTech Automotive (GTA) facility that has received about $4.9 million in state incentives has failed to meet the requirements for job creation, according to Jeff Rent, public relations manager for the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA). Rent says as of November, GreenTech had not met the […]