Mississippi: County Map of Regional Governance

The Delta Regional Authority covers 240 counties in 8 states.
45 of Mississippi's 82 counties are included in this plan.(red stars)

The Appalachian Regional Commission covers 24 of Mississippis counties for a total of 420 counties in 13 states. (green stars)

The Gulf Coast MegaRegion covers 75 counties over 6 states along the Gulf Coast.
Approximately 23 of Mississippi's 82 counties are included in this plan with a 10 county overlap with the DRA. (blue stars)

That leaves 9 of Mississippi's 82 counties, most on the eastern side of the state, that are not included in these 3 plans.
NOTE: This map was produced by the StopAgenda21INMS.COM author based on available information.

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Regionalism

The Gulf Regional Planning Commission

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Since 1967 the staff of GRPC has been providing general planning support to the fourteen   member jurisdictions through various projects, not limited to land use, mapping and comprehensive planning development. Additionally, GRPC serves as the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for the urbanized areas of Gulfport-Biloxi and Pascagoula-Moss Point. Our transportation planning process has been certified by the Federal Highway Administration, which allows the GRPC to manage the Surface Transportation Program funds that are allocated to the urban areas.

The Community Development Division responds to the needs of Harrison, Hancock, Jackson Counties and their respective cities.  Our goal is to provide community development planning assistance to local governments for improved community services, infrastructure, and quality of life by providing community and regional planning, grant writing and administration, and outreach/informational services.

Planning Services – The Commission’s community and regional planning provision of services includes technical and advisory services to counties and small cities with in the Gulf Regional Planning Commission jurisdiction.  When advantageous to the locality, the Community Development Division teams with local, regional, and or national planning consultants to provide a comprehensive planning approach to address the local planning issues.  Gulf Regional participated in the development of the following comprehensive planning projects.

  • Jackson County Comprehensive Plan update 2008
  • Moss Point 2008 Comprehensive Plan (In Progress)
  • Hancock County 2007 Comprehensive Plan
  • City of Bay St. Louis 2005 Hazard Mitigation and Flood Protection Plan Update
  • City of Pass Christian 2006 Comprehensive Plan (Upon Board Approval)
  • City of Pascagoula 2006 Comprehensive Plan Update
  • City of Pascagoula 2006 Hazard Mitigation and Flood Protection Plan Update
  • Jackson County 2006 Comprehensive Plan
  • City of Bay St. Louis 2004 Redistricting Plan
  • Hancock County 2000 and 2004Redistricting Plan
  • 2001 Harrison County Comprehensive Plan

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Appalachian Regional Commission

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Appalachian Regional Commission

Mississippi participates in the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). MDA's Appalachian Regional Office (ARO), in Tupelo, coordinates ARC activities and grants for Mississippi's 24 ARC counties. An MDA Deputy Director represents the Governor on the Appalachian Regional Commission.

The Appalachian Regional Commission is a partnership of federal, state and local governments that works for sustainable community and economic development in Appalachia and serves 420 counties in  portions of 13 states.  It extends more than 1,000 miles, from southern New York to northeastern Mississippi, and is home to more than 25 million people.

The 24 Mississippi counties served by ARC are Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Itawamba, Kemper, Lee, Lowndes, Marshall, Monroe, Montgomery, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Panola, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union, Webster, Winston, and Yalobusha

For more information:
Asset Development and Regional Services Division
Appalachian Regional Office
Telephone: 662.844.5413
Fax: 662.842.3667
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http://www.mississippi.org/mda-library-resources/programs/appalachian-regional-commission.html

The Delta Regional Authority - Governance over Western Mississippi

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http://dra.gov/!userfiles/editor/docs/MS_2009%20DRA%20Plan.pdf
http://www.dra.gov/about-us/board-members/default.aspx - This is led by the Governors of 8 states. Gov. Bryant inherited it and is now the state representative on this program. Regional authority is a major tool of Agenda 21. One of the primary targets is poor, distressed areas as they are A) in the highly coveted rural areas and B) don't have the resources to fight back or to understand what's going on. It is all done under the premise of helping, but with the federal government involved, that never happens in good faith.
Mississippi counties served by DRA are Adams, Amite, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Carroll, Claiborne, Coahoma, Copiah, Covington, DeSoto, Franklin, Grenada, Hinds, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Lawrence, Leflore, Lincoln, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Montgomery, Panola, Pike, Quitman, Rankin, Sharkey, Simpson, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, Tunica, Union, Walthall, Warren, Washington, Wilkinson, Yalobusha, and Yazoo.

THE DELTA REGIONAL AUTHORITY - REGIONAL GOVERNANCE - MAJOR COMPONENT OF AGENDA 21.

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The Gulf Coast Megaregion

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Mississippi's Gulf Coast has been included in one of the country's 10 megaregions. Under the Saul Alinsky mantra, 'never let a good disaster go to waste', our state is losing the ability to be self-governing. This megaregion was developed by America 2050.
America 2050 is a national initiative to meet the infrastructure, economic development and environmental challenges of the nation as we prepare to add about 130 million additional Americans by the year 2050.
America 2050 is guided by the National Committee for America 2050, a coalition of regional planners, scholars, and policy-makers to develop a framework for the nation's future growth that considers trends such as:
  • Rapid population growth and demographic change
  • Global climate change
  • The rise in foreign trade
  • Sprawling and inefficient land use patterns
  • Uneven and inequitable growth within and between regions
  • Infrastructure systems that are reaching capacity
  • The emergence of megaregions
A major focus of America 2050 is the emergence of megaregions - large networks of metropolitan areas, where most of the population growth by mid-century will take place. Examples of megaregions are the Northeast Megaregion, from Boston to Washington, or Southern California, from Los Angeles to Tijuana, Mexico. They comprise multiple, adjacent metropolitan areas connected by overlapping commuting patterns, business travel, environmental landscapes and watersheds, linked economies, and social networks. At least ten megaregions have been identified in the United States.

Regional Governance

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Regional Governance by Henry Lamb

Regionalism - Path to Global Collectivism

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Excerpt from: Regionalism - Path to Global Collectivism

Under the control of the COMMUNIST United Nations

Metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) have existed in the United States since the 1950s (Sanchez & Wolf, 2005), but have become increasingly important in transportation planning since the 1973 Surface Transportation Assistance Act specified that urbanized areas with populations of 50,000 or greater create MPOs to facilitate the transportation-planning process. …each MPO has the same broad mandate: to ensure that the local use of federal transportation funds was determined by a planning process that was continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive (known as the "three Cs") (Glassman, n.d.). As such, MPOs are the closest the transportation-planning process in the United States to implement "regional" decision-making.

The Intermodal Surface Transportation and Equity Act (ISTEA), enacted in 1991, substantially increased the responsibilities, and power, of MPOs. ISTEA provided transportation funds directly to MPOs,…

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Regional planning brings regional governance

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By Henry Lamb

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So what’s wrong with regional governance? Nothing- unless you value the republican form of government and individual freedom - and detest autocracy in all its forms. Regional governance evolved as a way to get around the obstacles presented by multiple local governments, all of which may have a stake in the region, but often disagree on what the region needs.

Regional governments, and their initiatives, are driven by government, not by the people. Government, by its very nature, seeks to increase its power and overcome any obstacle in its path. Local governments, like individual neighbors, often disagree on how best to resolve a common problem. Consequently, governments, especially the executive branch, tend to look for ways to get around the obstacle of disagreement. One successful method is Regional Governance, which diminishes the power of local governments by conferring increasing levels of authority on the executive branch, which implements its authority through appointed bureaucrats. In very short order, it is the unelected bureaucrats who wield the power; elected officials become little more than a rubber stamp whose approval provides “official” respectability to the bureaucracy.

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