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OUR VIEW: At last, funding for roads and bridges are getting their due

MBJ Staff — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:01:41 +0000

If you’re drawing up a list of “Most Important Things That Occurred in Mississippi’s 2013 Legislature,” save a spot for the Senate leadership’s creation of a task force to explore ways to fix the nearly one-out-of-three state highways deemed to be in poor or mediocre shape and the one-out-of-four state bridges deemed structurally deficient or [...]

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OUR VIEW: USM makes right call by calling off tornado relief campaign

MBJ Staff — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:03:05 +0000

We have all seen the pictures, read the reports and heard the stories coming out of Moore, Okla. The cost of a massive tornado that battered the Oklahoma City suburb could be more than $2 billion, according to a preliminary official estimate. State authorities meanwhile said two infants were among the 24 people who perished [...]

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OUR VIEW: Online gaming in Mississippi a losing roll of the dice

MBJ Staff — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:33:44 +0000

A Mississippi college freshman sits in his fraternity house room, locked into his laptop computer. It doesn’t matter which school. But what does matter is he has a credit card and Internet access. Only he knows, but he’s playing online poker from an illegal offshore site. Nationwide, casino gambling is growing. A recent report from [...]

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OUR VIEW: Jeopardizing a visitor industry for little in return

MBJ Staff — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:05:33 +0000

The Mississippi Business Journal over the years has chronicled the exodus of Mississippi corporations, trade associations and non-profit groups to Alabama’s Orange Beach and Gulf Shores and Florida’s Panhandle for their conventions and trade shows. While we lamented the loss of hospitality dollars to our state, we conceded the lure of the sparkling sand beaches [...]

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From “too big to fail” to too big to jail?

MBJ Staff — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:35:41 +0000

America’s banking crisis may be receding into history but not so the desire of everyday Americans to bring the perpetrators of the criminally induced collapse to justice. While those behind rigging the system for their own benefit may never be forced to account for their actions, the reason why they are getting off free could [...]

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Status quo on Medicaid leaves state behind

MBJ Staff — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:07:29 +0000

Where have you been? That’s a question Mississippi’s hospital executives should have to answer as the Legislature winds down and Republican leaders in both houses refuse to think pragmatically about expanding Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act. The hospital CEOs and the Mississippi Hospital Association seem to have been largely absent from the wrangling [...]

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Debate should continue about tort awards and limitations

MBJ Staff — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 05:42:21 +0000

In a recent story by Clay Chandler, a federal appeals court has ruled that Mississippi’s tort cap does not violate separation of powers A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Mississippi’s $1 million cap on non-economic damages arising out of civil litigation does not violate the state’s constitutional separation of [...]

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It will be ideas that solve problems created by new technology

MBJ Staff — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:52:38 +0000

The Associated Press recently moved a provocative series about the changing landscape for jobs in the United States. It made a good case that middle-class jobs eliminated by technology and the recession aren’t coming back. This is not the first time to hear such dire warnings. Imagine the fuss in the horse carriage industry 100 [...]

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Saving downtown Jackson and big dollars to boot

MBJ Staff — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:36:10 +0000

Say a cash-strapped state like Mississippi had an opportunity to save tens of millions of dollars on office space in the coming decades while injecting new economic life into its capital city. How fast would you give the idea a thumbs-up – or at least an in-depth ? State Sen. David Blount wants the state [...]

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Madison mayor, Tulane wrong to bully Jackson State

MBJ Staff — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:54:16 +0000

Madison Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler would never tell McDonald’s it can be the only fast-food franchise in her queendom. Wendy’s and Burger King wouldn’t hear of it. Yet, it appears that is what has happened recently as she and Tulane University have asked the state College Board to rescind what they’re calling the “premature” approval [...]

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