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News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
September 5, 2018

Wicker, Hyde-Smith Announce $1.5M for Baldwyn Gas Line Repair

Economic Development Grant Expected to Create 425 Jobs, Retain 1,439 Jobs, and Spur $57M in Private Investment U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., today announced the award of a $1.5 million Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant to the City of Baldwyn to upgrade the city’s natural gas transmission system. According to city…
News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
September 5, 2018

SALTER: Remember State Rep. Alyce Clarke’s persistence, grit when state lottery finally begins

By: Sid Salter The word out of Jackson is now that Gov. Phil Bryant has signed the Alyce G. Clarke Mississippi Lottery Act into law, it will take about a year to get the lottery up and running. When that transpires, Mississippians who want to play the lottery and those non-gamblers who will merely benefit…