Then-Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour channeled $570 million in Hurricane Katrina housing recovery funds away from rebuilding housing for poor Gulf Coast residents and toward improving the state port at Gulfport. That’s vital context for $77-mllion TANF scandal, Ellen Ann Fentress writes.
The Krewe of Nereids, a women-founded Mardi Gras group that originated in Waveland, Miss., is hosting its annual Mermaids Arts and Crafts Show at the historic L & N Train Depot in Bay St. Louis, Miss., on Nov. 12 and Nov. 13, 2022.
As Hurricane Ida moved over the Mississippi Gulf Coast on the 16th anniversary of a storm named Katrina, Edward Gonzales maneuvered his small bass boat through the swamped streets of Shoreline Park, an area of Hancock County inundated with flooding, looking for people to assist.
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