For the upcoming legislative session, members of a Delta task force hope to use a divide-and-conquer strategy to push through another set of recommendations for the 18-county region.
The group introduced a hefty set of measures in the 2007 Legislature to transform the nation’s poorest and least educated region with housing, educational, health-care and economic development initiatives.
The success of members of the Task Force to Revitalize the Delta, however, can be summed up in three words: Died in committee.
“It fell flat on its face,” said task force member state Rep. John Mayo, D-Clarksdale.
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