Archive for the ‘MBJ FEATURE’ Category
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University changes Hattiesburg’s direction
Arguably, the most important date in the community and economic development history of the City of Hattiesburg is March 30, 1910, On that day, Mississippi Normal College, dedicated entirely to teacher training, was chartered by the Mississippi Legislature.
The first class had a mere 227 students led by 17 faculty members. A century [...] [...]
USDA slashes catfish inspection budget
As of late, good news coming from the beleaguered U.S. catfish industry has been meager at best. So, it made headlines when, after years of lobbying by the industry, the 2008 Farm Bill approved the transfer of the inspection of imported fish from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to the [...] [...]
Topazi talks about himself, Momentum Mississippi and the Kemper County lignite plant
Q & A with Anthony Topazi, CEO of Mississippi Power Company
Photos by Stephen McDill
Click here to watch the video interview series
Q: Tell us a little bit about your background.
A: I grew up in Birmingham, Ala. I am the grandson of Italian immigrants, both on [...] [...]
VICKSBURG — Most weekday mornings, Laura Weeks rolls out of her Washington Street bed, takes a shower, eats breakfast and goes to work.
No commute necessary. She simply walks down the stairs.
“My husband and I moved to Vicksburg from Norfolk, Va., and the traffic in the mornings was horrible,” Weeks said. “It took us 45 [...] [...]
Small businesses like Alex & Lele could get hammered by jobs bill in Congress
Alexandra Wilkes and her cousin, Leslie Decker, have grabbed a sizable chunk of the jewelry market in the Jackson metropolitan area the past two years.
The two, co-owners of Alex and Lele, specialize in handmade earrings and necklaces.
To go with Wilkes and Decker, [...] [...]
IRS wants to hear from you if you know someone playing fast and loose with the numbers
Everybody does it. Or do they?
Most people wouldn’t admit it if they fudged on their tax return but would you blow the whistle on someone else?
If the answer is affirmative, the Internal Revenue Service wants to hear from you.
Dee [...] [...]
The spring construction season is close to getting started and roadbuilders and contractors are ready to go to work.
There remain a few obstacles, though.
The $35-billion jobs bill circulating through Congress, which allocates $15 billion in tax forgiveness for small businesses who hire new workers, also contains $20 billion in annual highway funding for the states.
The [...] [...]
Mississippians may be drinking as much as they ever have but they ain’t drinking the good stuff
Despite a downtrodden economy and jobless rates in double-digits, Mississippians continued to reach for the wine and spirits in 2009.
While they drank more liquor last year, people turned to cheaper brands, according to a recently released report by the [...] [...]
Billy J. Murphy, director of the Fine Arts Institute of Mississippi (FAIM), got off his motorcycle last week on the way to a bike rally in Daytona, Fla., for a hamburger and a conversation with the Mississippi Business Journal.
Murphy called Tuesday’s hearing for FAIM a “circus” and said it looks like the state is going [...] [...]
New commercial vehicle on target to roll off assembly line for 2011
Nissan announced last March that it was spending $118 million to expand and retool parts of its facility in Canton so that it could produce commercial vehicles (CVs).
The company said then that it hoped to start production in time for the 2011 model year, [...] [...]
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