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What the Corps understands but you don’t

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By Kelley Williams, Frank Corder Verified
| Magnolia Tribune
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers caused Mudberg, a sediment plug in the Mississippi River that reduces the river’s discharge to the Gulf and makes floods inside the levees higher, longer, and more destructive. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”  — Upton Sinclair, 1934 Sinclair was writing about California politics in the 1930s. He could have been writing about Mississippi River Commission (MRC) politics today.
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Blissful ignorance vs. mistakes of omission

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By Kelley Williams, Frank Corder Verified
| Magnolia Tribune
The Mississippi River tried to change course to the Atchafalaya in 1973. It almost did. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stopped it. A course change is inevitable. It will leave plants and refineries stranded on a saltwater estuary. “The biggest mistakes are mistakes of omission, not commission. It’s the things you knew enough to do — they were within your circle of competence — and you were sucking your thumb.
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Hoist on your own petard

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By Kelley Williams, Frank Corder Verified
| Magnolia Tribune
A developer is asking the Public Service Commission to bless a plant that does not exist, financed by people not named, to power tenants not signed. It could put Entergy in a bind. Hoist on your own petard — an unpleasant surprise. A bomb that goes off in your hand. A screen pass that turns into a pick six. A developer’s fantasy that puts Entergy in a bind of its own making. On March 2, 2026, a Ridgeland developer filed a Rule 24 petition with the Mississippi Public Service Commission.
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