Today’s podcast is one of four podcasts from our two-thousand ten Northeast Mississippi Economic Forecast Conference. The conference was held January twentieth at the BancorpSouth Conference Center in Tupelo, Mississippi, where over seven-hundred area citizens heard forecasts on the economy locally, state-wide, and nationally from noted speakers. This podcast features Mr. Phil Hardwick, coordinator of capacity development with the John C. Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University. He will be introduced by David Rumbarger, President and CEO of the Community Development Foundation.