by Stephen McDill Published: August 31,2010
Tags: building restoration, David Watkins, economic development, historic preservation, HRI Properties, interior design, JACKSON, King Edward Hotel, Standard Life Building, Watkins Development
Watkins Development of Jackson and New Orleans-based HRI Properties prepare for tenant move in day at the historic Standard Life Building in downtown Jackson. [...]
by Stephen McDill Published: August 31,2010
Tags: Bay St. Louis, fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast, Hurricane Katrina, Trapani's Eatery
BAY ST. LOUIS- MBJ-TV photojournalist Stephen McDill witnessed and wrote about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in Bay St. Louis five years ago this week. He recently returned to the western edge of the Mississippi Gulf Coast where the recovery continues. [...]
by Stephen McDill Published: August 31,2010
Tags: biofuel, Columbus, Haley Barbour, KIOR
JACKSON- Gov. Haley Barbour announces that Kior, a biofuel company based in Houston, Tex., wants to build a plant at the Port of Columbus that will use technology and other groundbreaking processes to convert wood and wood products into oil. [...]
by Wally Northway Published: August 31,2010
Tags: education, higher education
COLUMBUS — Mississippi University for Women’s (MUW’s) new online college, V3 College, has partnered with more than half of Mississippi’s community colleges to educate students statewide. Most recently, V3 College signed agreements with Northwest Mississippi Community College (NWCC), Northeast Mississippi Community College (NEMCC), East Central Community College (ECCC) and Copiah Lincoln Community College (Co-Lin). V3 [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: August 31,2010
JACKSON — According to Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) officials, federal Transportation Enhancement Program (TEP) funds have been authorized by MDOT executive director Larry L. “Butch” Brown to be allocated to the City of Jackson. Funding in the amount of $2 million has been authorized for a bike/pedestrian trail, curb and gutter, lighting and landscaping [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: August 31,2010
Tags: construction, healthcare, hospitals
AROUND MISSISSIPPI — The Mississippi Department of Health has issued certificates of need (CONs) for three projects. The projects are: • Covington County Hospital and Nursing Home (d/b/a Arrington Living Center) in Collins — for the cost overrun to CON #R-0556-A for the construction/establishment of a 60-bed skilled nursing facility. The additional capital expenditure is [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: August 31,2010
Tags: agriculture, food, international trade, poultry
WASHINGTON — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) has joined more than two dozen senators, both Democrats and Republicans, and sent a letter to the Russian government expressing their concern regarding Russia’s failure to fully honor its recent commitment to allow U.S. poultry products back into Russia. President Obama and Russian President Medvedev reportedly came to an [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 31,2010
Tags: disaster, energy, environment, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill
NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal again sought an end to President Barack Obama’s moratorium on deepwater oil drilling as he met yesterday with two members of the president’s commission investigating the BP oil spill: former Florida Sen. Bob Graham and National Geographic Society executive Terry Garcia. He got no promises. Graham said two [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 31,2010
Tags: banking and finance, courts, embezzlement, law enforcement
GULFPORT — Sentencing has been reset for Oct. 12 in U.S. District Court for two former employees of Hancock Bank’s Ocean Springs main branch in a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme to defraud the bank branch. Margaret Migues, former branch operations manager at the Hancock Bank main branch in Ocean Springs, and Doris Burney, a former teller [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 31,2010
Tags: mining, workplace safety
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — Thirty-three men stuck far underground are now the longest-trapped miners in recent history as a huge drill begins digging a planned escape route. The men were trapped Aug. 5 when a landslide blocked the shaft down into the San Jose copper and gold mine in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert. Last [...] [...]
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