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Oyster harvesting resumes in Mississippi after long hiatus

by Ilan Ireland
Dec 13, 2024
The state is allowing a limited harvest on its oyster reefs after a series of environmental disasters nearly wiped out the species.
Richard Bosarge began harvesting Mississippi oysters on his boat, the Royster, in 2007. He and other oystermen pivoted to other types of fishing when the state’s public reefs closed in 2019.
Illan Ireland/Mississippi Free Press
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Mississippi record store owner hopes "greatest hits" compilations sound good to collectors

by Sean McHenry
Sep 13, 2023
While vinyl record prices remain a concern for Phillip Rollins of OffBeat, he thinks lower-priced "greatest hits" albums may entice customers.
Phillip Rollins, owner of OffBeat in Jackson, Mississippi, says collections of popular work by artists such as En Vogue and Notorious B.I.G. could get more people interested in buying records.
Courtesy Rollins
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This record store wants to prove that downtown Jackson, Mississippi, is a destination

by Sean McHenry
Jun 12, 2023
"There's always something to do here," says Phillip Rollins, owner of the store OffBeat. "People just don't know how to find it."
Phillip Rollins' store, OffBeat, was part of 601JXN, an event that aimed to bring people downtown.
Courtesy Rollins
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Water ruined his vinyl, but store owner gets by with a little help from his friends

by Sean McHenry
Apr 12, 2023
Phillip Rollins, owner of OffBeat, says people saw him on the news and supported his shop by helping to clean up and dry things off.
"We had a fire next door and then we had a lot of flood damage due to that fire," said Phillip Rollins. "So we lost a lot of our used records."
Courtesy Phillip Rollins
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A Mississippi record and comic store deals with the January "dead zone"

by Sean McHenry
Jan 10, 2023
OffBeat owner Phillip Rollins says January and summer are his "most hated months" because business is so slow.
OffBeat in Jackson, Mississippi, had a good holiday season but is dealing with the January doldrums.
Courtesy Phillip Rollins
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Economic Pulse

How a Mississippi nonprofit helps Black entrepreneurs get funded

by David Brancaccio and Jarrett Dang
Nov 16, 2022
Tim Lampkin, CEO of Higher Purpose Co., says his organization serves as an adviser and "capital matchmaker" for business owners.
Higher Purpose Co. Founder and CEO Tim Lampkin (center) with Therapy Plus CEO LeJeune Johnson (left) and BloomTech Developments CEO Melissa Bloom (right).
Courtesy Innovate Mississippi
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"Inflation is gut-punching my business," record store owner laments

by Sean McHenry
Aug 12, 2022
Vinyl records are a big part of Phillip Rollins' business at Offbeat in Jackson, Mississippi. But rising costs make them a harder sell.
Phillip "DJ Young Venom" Rollins, of the Offbeat record store and art gallery, would like to see the prices of vinyl records go down. "The demand is up there, just the supply is kind of low."
Courtesy Rollins
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Texas, Mississippi lift COVID mask mandates

by David Brancaccio and Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Mar 3, 2021
Texas businesses can open at 100% capacity in a week. In Mississippi, mask and distancing recommendations are now in place.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (right) issued an executive order lifting the state's mask mandate on Tuesday.
Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images
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A nonprofit director finds hope in community engagement

by Kai Ryssdal and Daisy Palacios
Sep 3, 2020
Once, Chiquikta Fountain wanted to escape the little town of Cleveland, Mississippi. Now she is reinvested in the Delta city.
Chiquikta Fountain and her son Maurice at their home in Cleveland, Mississippi, in 2016.
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Mississippi business owner celebrates rate cut

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Aug 1, 2019
Kai Ryssdal checked in with Austin Golding, a small business owner in Mississippi.
Floodwaters in Vicksburg, Mississippi back in 2011.
Mario Tama/Getty Images
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