The Eye of the Storm Still Sees.
One East Biloxi man doesn't want to remember the things he saw during Hurricane Katrina. He doesn't want to remember the destruction he saw after it. So why can't he forget?
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The First Ones In.
Katrina didn't slow down business development, local business leaders say. It's the economy that really hurt. When investors couldn't get money from lenders, development just stopped. But are things starting to change?
Mike Jr.’s Last Cast Effort.
Michael Adams, Jr., was a successful restaurant owner, boat captain and bass fisherman. And then the economy swung south. And then the oil spill hit. And then Mike Jr. started asking: What's going to happen to me now?
The Biggest Little Annexation Case in State History.
"We all decided that we'd rather be adopted by a rich uncle than a poor one," says Britt Singletary. Which is how this Biloxi lawyer ended up in a lawsuit -- against his own hometown.
Welcome to the Fast-Paced World of Historic Homes.
Along the Gulf Coast, they speak of this need to wipe the slate clean, to rebuild in ways grand beyond possibility. But Ken P'Pool had this other thought: Why not just leave it all where it once stood? This is the team he hired to do just that.
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We’re Stry [pronounced STOHR-ee], a new type of news organization. We don’t care much about big headlines or news of the day, and we’re not easily distracted. We’re just a band of reporters in pursuit of great storytelling. We tell stories about the issues that affect our lives.
What we’re doing is different, and we’re okay with that. Come join us.
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Stry.us is bringing our small band of reporters to Springfield, Mo., this summer. We’ll be digging into this theme of an Interconnected America — How is what’s happening in the Ozarks connected to what’s happening elsewhere in the country?
We’ll be looking at the problems facing the region, and we’re going to try to figure out what’s keeping locals from living the lives they want to live.
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We see Stry.us as a lab for storytelling, community building and experimentation. We’re trying a lot of new stuff. And we’re documenting all of our news experiments here on the Stry.us blog.
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