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Mississippi River mayors help cities navigate rising data center interest

Missouri state Rep. Colin Wellenkamp, who also serves as MRCTI’s executive director, speaks at a press conference on the banks of the Mississippi River. Mayors representing more than 100 Mississippi River Basin communities met in Natchez, Miss., to announce a new framework and wishlist for data center proposals. (Courtesy: Katherine Bish Photography)

By Héctor Alejandro Arzate, Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk. Mississippi River mayors came together this week to help river communities evaluate data center proposals, as the facilities continue to rapidly expand across the basin.  There are already more than 3,000 active data centers throughout the United States, including in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri […]

‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ bolsters Coast Guard shipbuilding programs

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Argus becomes the first Offshore Patrol Cutter to be launched at a christening ceremony Panama City, Florida, Oct. 27, 2023. Petty Officer 1st Class Ronald Hodges, U.S. Coast Guard photo | DVIDS

By Steve Wilson. (The Center Square) — Passage of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” this summer has provided a jolt to the U.S. Coast Guard’s shipbuilding program as it seeks to replace most of its aging fleet. The service’s most important shipbuilding program, the Heritage class Offshore Patrol Cutter, is years behind schedule and its cost […]

Senator Wicker: Jones Act Strengthens U.S. Navy & Merchant Shipping

By Senator Wicker (R-MS). Another day, another attack on the Jones Act. Colin Grabow and Scott Lincicome’s “Protectionism Kills U.S. Merchant Shipping” (op-ed, Feb. 26) calls for the law’s repeal. For hundreds of years, Congress has entrusted domestic maritime commerce to American companies, ships and mariners for a simple reason: It works. The law helps stabilize the nation’s […]