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• in Lifestyle
  Mississippi's Constant State of Awareness
  Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is preparing to lead his state through yet another meteorological nightmare.
  by dmcgill / on May 8, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “mississippi river”

 

• Events May 21-23: A WWII Fighter Pilot’s Tale, Asian Pacific American Culture and the Mississippi River

  
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  Learn the history of the Mississippi River and our influence on it in the documentary Troubled Waters: Mississippi River Story, on view at the Anacostia Community Museum this Thursday. Photo courtesy of Flickr user bluepoint951 . Tuesday, May 21: Charles A. Lindbergh Memorial Lecture: Bud Anderson Aircraft ...
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• PRO-ANGLER SPRENGEL & CO-ANGLER BOSCH WIN INAUGURAL CABELA’S NATIONAL WALLEYE TOUR EVENT 5-11-2013

  
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    MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. (April 29, 2013) – Pro-angler Korey Sprengel, of Beaver Dam, Wis., brought 26.81 pounds of walleye to the scales to win the inaugural event of the Cabela’s National Walleye Tour (NWT) at Red Wing, Minn., on April 27. Mike Bosch, of Mandan, N.D., took home the co-angler first-place prize ...
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• 3 appointed to steamship pilots board

  
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  Gov. Bobby Jindal has appointed Robert Heitmeier of Metairie, Lee Jackson of Westwego and Louis Wattigney Jr. of Belle Chasse to the board of the New Orleans and Baton Rouge Steamship Pilots for the Mississippi River. The three- member board...
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• Boxer defends her deal with Vitter to streamline environmental oversight for Corps of Engineers

  
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  WASHINGTON -- The Senate began debating a bill Tuesday to set federal policy for federal flood control and harbor maintenance projects with a strong defense by the bills authors over criticism it shortchanges environmental review.Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., whose environmental...
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• Battle of the Barges: U.S. Shipping Sector Seeks More Federal Funds

  
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  Barge shipping on the Mississippi River. Image via Shutterstock WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) – As Congress imposes deep spending cuts on everything from national defense to child care, shipping industry executives are urging lawmakers to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more on a river network that ...
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• Federal Water Tap, May 6: Federal Dollars for Hurricane Sandy Damage

  
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  Stemming the Flood The Environmental Protection Agency will allocate $US 569 million dollars to New Jersey and New York for water and sewer facilities damaged by Hurricane Sandy last October. The money, authorized by Congress, will go into the states’ revolving loan funds for water infrastructure projects. Up to 30 ...
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• May 1, 1863: Joseph E. Johnston: "Enemys army can cross at Bruinsburg"

  
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  News of the disaster at Vicksburg reached Richmond in this message from Joseph E. Johnston: Grant has finally gotten his army over the Mississippi River at Bruinsburg on to the same side as Vicksburg. TULLAHOMA, TENN., May 1, 1863. General S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector GENERAL: General Pemberton ...
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• The River Risen – Mississippi River Flooding – Great River Road – Alton, Illinois

  
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  Last evening I evening I took a drive up the Great River Road (one of the great roads of America in my opinion) just north of Alton, curious to see how high the water was. It turns out that it was just several feet shy of the roadway. I suspect that it had already crested and was on its way down and the road may have ...
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• April 29, 1863: The Battle of Grand Gulf

  
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  On this day 150 years ago, the Mississippi River Squadron under acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter attempted to force a crossing of the Mississippi River at Grand Gulf. Ulysses S. Grant described the battle in his memoirs. At 8 oclock A.M., 29th, Porter made the attack with his entire strength present, eight ...
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• Estate of the Union

  
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  Share/Bookmark The United States started life as colonies strung along the Atlantic seaboard of the North American continent and barely extending 50 miles inland. By the time of the Declaration of Independence, these original 13 colonies occupied an area roughly one-tenth of today’s country. Over the next 200 ...
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• An authentic Dutch windmill in Illinois

  
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  At the top of a flood control dike in the tiny town of Fulton, Illinois stands a windmill that was fabricated in the Netherlands and shipped to the U.S. The windmill, now known as “De Immigrant,” was assembled and installed in Fulton by Dutch craftsmen; the massive timbers assembled by wooden pegs. The fully ...
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• Illinois drought and flooding isnt climate change. Its a Climate Clusterfuck.

  
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  Remember the stories about rivers in Illinois earlier this year? They were about a long drought so bad it was slowing barge traffic on the Mississippi River down to a halt. And here we are in spring with our rivers and half the state flooded . In fact, heavy flooding  forced the closure of about a dozen locks ...
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• River forecast update and potential for tributary flooding in Shelby County this weekend

  
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  A couple of days ago, I blogged about the Lower Mississippi River beginning its annual spring rise as Flood Advisories were issued for the Memphis gauge.  Today, this statement was released by the National Weather Service here in Memphis: PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1257 PM ...
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• River Religion

  
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  Emily Suzanne Clark A theme of water connects Chip Callahan’s wonderful post yesterday to this one. Today, I encourage you to pick up a copy of Michael Pasquier’s recently edited Gods of the Mississippi . In 1999, Indiana University Press published Gods of the City , a volume edited by Robert ...
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• Oceanic Religion

  
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  Chip Callahan “I believe water will be one of the most pressing environmental, economic, social, political, and strategic issues of the twenty-first century.” – Mark C. Taylor, Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy (2012) I want to thank Mike Pasquier for inviting me to ...
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