The city administration of rural Mound Bayou has paid off nearly $700,000 of debt in two years, and now can begin to prioritize long-neglected infrastructure projects it previously couldn’t afford.

Author Archives: Kelsey Davis Betz
Kelsey Davis Betz is from Mobile, Ala., and currently lives in Cleveland, where she works as one of our Mississippi Delta-based reporters covering education and intersecting issues. Kelsey has a dual degree in journalism and Spanish from Auburn University and worked as an editorial intern at Texas Monthly and a courts reporter at the Montgomery Advertiser. She is a 2018 Educating Children in Mississippi Fellow at the Hechinger Report and is a co-founder of the Mississippi Delta Public Newsroom.