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Gulfport City Councilman R. Lee Flowers sent a letter to Governor Bryant yesterday recommending a change in leadership at the state port. Flowers says information about the benefits of a $570 million expansion has been kept from the public.

Retailers in Mississippi say a sales tax holiday is a big boost to business.

"What I mean by that is houses starting in the 14 hundred range and going up to 18 hundred, anything in that range. They really really did bring us out of the recession."

Shipping companies and businesses that rely on the river are struggling to navigate its low waters.

The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to make big cuts to the SNAP program, formerly known as food stamps.

Mississippi's only professional golf tournament is expected to be a boom for businesses in the area.

"When you turn your life upside down and you go somewhere and you don't come back for several months up to a year sometimes two years it affects a lot of things"

Low levels on the Mississippi river limit the amount of commerical shipping that can happen.

" Many people just kind of ignore it and then they get farther and farther and farther behind and then the bank will eventually come after them. So if people will come seek assistance from either housing counselors or lawyers before they've  already got their house sold out from under them then we can keep them in their homes."

A massive drought is blanketing most of the nation, but Mississippi is faring better than most.

The Salute Our Troops caravan traveling through Missisippi is raising funds for the Wounded Warrior Project and doing video "shoutouts" to send to military men and women overseas.

City and county leaders hope to devise a plan to bring the Capital City Classic back to Jackson.

This week, 500 volunteers are on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, many of them demolishing houses ruined by Hurricane Katrina. Seven years after the storm,  5,000 volunteers still arrive every year.

Hundreds of millions of dollars will flow into Mississipppi from the RESTORE Act, based on fines BP will pay for damage from the oil spill.

Coastal Retrofit Mississippi has $20 million for homeowners in Hancock, Harrison and Jackson Counties to make their houses wind-resistant.  Homeowners pay 25 percent of the cost.