SLC meet to highlight Mississippi

The speaker of the Mississippi state House of Representatives, Philip Gunn (R-Clinton), chair of the Southern Legislative Conference (SLC), will convene the group’s 71st annual meeting July 29 in Biloxi. The meeting is expected to bring together more than 1,300 state legislators, staff and guests from SLC’s 15-member states. Mississippi last hosted the meeting in 2000. Among the meeting agenda features is Mississippi’s coastal restoration following Hurricane Katrina, and economic development in the Golden Triangle region. In addition, technical tours will offer participants a first-hand look of Huntington Ingalls Industries in Pascagoula, NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center, and the University of Southern Mississippi’s Thad Cochran Marine Aquaculture Center. Mississippi natives Archie Manning (retired NFL quarterback) and Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise will speak at plenary sessions. (Source: Y’all Politics 07/29/17)