This and That from the Convention
Governor Haley Barbour painted a portrait of improvement for the Gulf Coast region during comments Friday before a general session at the 140th annual MPA Convention. But he stressed the need for housing development in the area. Meanwhile, The Clarion-Ledger called the extension of the debris removal deadline in Hancock County a big victory for affected communities in a Saturday editorial.
And Kate Magandy of The Sun Herald reacts to the Saturday premiere of a new documentary by Dr. Ralph Braseth, director of the S. Gale Denley Student Media Center at Ole Miss, that profiled the against-all-odds story of the five coast newspapers and their Herculean efforts after Katrina.
Melissa M. Scallan details Friday remarks by First Lady Marsha Barbour who was in Hattiesburg during the landfall and on the coast a matter of hours after Katrina roared ashore.
Starkville Daily News managing editor Brian Hawkins reacts to seeing the Gulf Coast for the first time since the storm.
And The Sun-Herald offered a gracious Thursday welcome to MPA and thanked state editors and publishers for bringing the convention back the coast.