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Turkey Creek restoration project based in science despite concerns over worsening floods
Turkey Creek restoration project based in science By John Fitzhugh | April 19, 2021 at 6:37 PM CDT - Updated April 19 at 6:43 PM
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Residents say Turkey Creek in North Gulfport hasn’t flooded as badly as it did last week in several years.
The creek has been the subject of environmental dispute for years. The 12-mile creek is part of a 17,000-acre floodplain that is critical to draining rain waters from Long Beach to Bayou Bernard. There have been numerous studies and plans made but little action to prevent the creek from flooding the communities that surround it.
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Editor: The seditious assault on democracy, desecration of the U.S. Capitol and murder of a Capitol Police officer by supporters of President Donald Trump on Jan. 6 was one of the darkest days in American history.
Like most patriotic Americans, I make little distinction between people who only gathered for a rally under the provably false pretense of a stolen election and those who actively rampaged in the Capitol building.
It was with great dismay, then, that I read Del. Dave LaRock’s disingenuous statement in which he bizarrely compared the insurrection to racial justice marches this past summer while claiming it was “highly likely” that those who attacked the Capitol were “paid provocateurs sent in to taint an otherwise orderly protest” (arrests since last week have proven otherwise). Then, as if to double down on his own culpability in this attack on our democracy, LaRock had the audacity just hours after Congress certified Joe Biden and Kamala Harris a