Word: pascagoula
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...Driving east down U.S. Highway 90, along the strip which connects Pass Christian to Pascagoula, the vast Gulf of Mexico looking tranquil as a lake on my right, I came to the memorial known as Eight Flags. Located on the Gulfport-Biloxi line, the site, which includes a Confederate flagpole, has been mired in controversy for over two years. Still at question is whether this Rebel flag is a thoughtful "heritage" salute to the Confederate dead or a racist affront to African-Americans. The NAACP has poured untold resources into banning the flag because the park is funded by taxpayer...
...finished ships and taxpayers left holding the bill don't spell opportunity to you, you're just not ready for Capitol Hill. A $1.1 billion federal loan guarantee was pushed through Congress in 1999 to help American Classic Voyages build cruise ships in Senator Trent Lott's hometown of Pascagoula, Miss. The company hit the rocks last fall, citing a decline in tourism due to terrorism and leaving its debts unpaid and its ships at the dock. Republican Congressman Gene Taylor of Mississippi came up with a plan to solve this pork-barrel mess: more pork barrel. Taylor wants...
...economic conference at Princeton and was startled by the enthusiasm it generated among business leaders and students alike. Senate G.O.P. leader Trent Lott, on a trip home to Mississippi, says the idea was talked up by a satellite-dish installer and the clerk at his dry cleaner in Pascagoula. The plan also won support from state and local governments--themselves major employers facing budget crunches. All sides are back at the negotiating table on Capitol Hill, and the measure now stands a good chance of being part of an economic-stimulus package...
...Sulzer Medica facing possible bankruptcy, one of its U.S. executives rang his buddy Joe Cunningham, a physician prominent in Texas, to brainstorm. "My basic idea," Cunningham says, "was to get somebody who thinks like a plaintiff and see how they would respond to this." He called Richard Scruggs, the Pascagoula, Miss., trial lawyer whose efforts forced big tobacco into a $246 billion settlement in 1998 and who is working with Cunningham in a crusade against managed-care companies. Though Scruggs styles himself an advocate for the little guy, he is also a sucker for big, gnarly cases, and to everyone...
...without warning anyone on his staff, clearing it with any of his Senate colleagues or checking with House leaders. "This was not supposed to get out so early," complained a Senator close to the deal. But Lott acted impulsively. Stung by stories suggesting that he had taken refuge in Pascagoula while Washington was burning, the former head cheerleader from his days at Ole Miss wanted to set the record straight. "I wasn't hiding out," Lott explained. "I was working...