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MBJ EDITORIAL: Rate increase of 11.35 percent just the beginning in regard to Kemper

by MBJ Staff Published: November 17,2011

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It was only a matter of time before Mississippi Power Company started raising the rates on its customers to pay for the $2.88 billion Kemper County coal plant. So, last week MPC filed documents with state regulators — the Public Service Commission — for a requested rate increase of 11.35 percent. The Commission has the [...] [...]

MBJ Editorial: Gov. Barbour shows thoughtful leadership on Initiative 26

by MBJ Staff Published: November 3,2011

Tags: abortion, banking and finance, birth control, courts, economic development, economy, education, environment, federal government, Fertility, Haly Barbour, healthcare, higher education, Initiative 26, intrauterine devices, jobs, manufacturing, Mississippi Business Journal, municipal government, Personhood, Phil Bryant, pre-embryonic personhood, recession, republican, retail, Roe V. Wade, state agency, state government, unemployment

Gov. Haley Barbour’s comments last week that he has concerns over ballot Initiative 26 that seeks to define a “person” in state law should be all we need to hear as we go to the polls this week. There is no question where Barbour stands on abortion as a conservative Republican who was on the [...] [...]

MBJ Editorial: Art Garden a great opportunity for people to come together

by MBJ Staff Published: October 6,2011

Tags: Arts Center of Mississippi, Betsy Bradley, Jackson Convention Complex, Lady Gaga, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Museum of Art, The Art Garden

Hindsight is a funny thing. We say it is 20/20. In the present, however, we have the opportunity to look at a current project and know that 10 years down the line, observers are going to look back and say they consider The Art Garden at the Mississippi Museum of Art one of the biggest [...] [...]

MBJ Editorial: Parcells never knew he was actually talking about Mississippi

by MBJ Staff Published: September 30,2011

Tags: Alabama, Area Development Magazine, Bill Parcells, California, Georgia, healthcare, Indiana, Lady Gaga, Louisiana, Marianne Hil, Mississippi, Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning, National Football League, New Economy Index, New York Giants, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, union

Positive is great. Reality is, well, real. Every once in a while, a talking head will rebut some statistic that’s not favorable to his or her opinion by saying, “Yeah, well, you can make statistics say whatever your want them to say.” Super Bowl winning coach Bill Parcells, however, famously said, “You are what your [...] [...]

MBJ Editorial: Legislature sets flame to money with handout to zoo

Mississippi will be throwing good money after bad when it chucks $1.3 million at the Jackson Zoo. The state Bond Commission last week unanimously approved the sale of $354 million in tax-exempt bonds for which the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum will get $40 million together in bond funding. However, [...] [...]

MBJ Editorial: Ayers family worked too hard to see neglect at this level

Never in his wildest dreams would Jake Ayers had believed, in 1975, what has become of the Mississippi college desegregation lawsuit, known simply as “Ayers.” When all was said and done in 2004, Mississippi education officials said they could get to work enforcing the $503 million settlement designed to correct racist neglect of Jackson State, [...] [...]

MBJ Editorial: Idea for new minor league team not a good one

by MBJ Staff Published: September 15,2011

Tags: Atlanta Braves, Barry Lyons, Big South League, Bilox, BILOXI, Field of Dream, Greenville, Greenville Bluesmen, HATTIESBURG, Hurricane Katrina, JACKSON, Jackson Met, Major League Baseball, Meridian, Mississippi, Mississippi Braves, National Basketball Association, National Football League, National Hockey League, New York Mets, Southaven, Southern League, Tupelo, Tupelo Tornado

There was a time that minor league sports, baseball in particular, was at the heart of the American dream. Watch “Field of Dreams” and you will know everything you need to know. However, these days, non-affiliated minor league sports do not work. They don’t work in Mississippi, ever. To think there is a group of [...] [...]

MBJ Editorial: Mississippi has a Heisman to hold on to

by Ross Reily Published: September 13,2011

Tags: Alcorn State, All-American, Auburn University, Bay St. Louis, Cam Newton, Delbert Hosemann, Delta State, Felix “Doc” Blanchard, Gov. Haley Barbour, Heisman Trophy, Hurricane Katrina, Jackson State, Kenny Rogers, Lady Gaga, LSU, Mississippi State University, NCAA, Reggie Bush, Rick Perry, Southeastern Conference, St. Stanislaus, Tea Party, Uniform Athletes Agents Act, United States Air Force, University of Alabama, USC

While we understand what Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann meant when he said, “If Mississippi ever wins a Heisman trophy, we want to keep it,” there likely are many out there who don’t. Hosemann made the comments in connection with a story, saying a new law could help protect student athletes from sports agents who [...] [...]

MBJ Editorial: Mississippi Delta worse off after eight years of Gov. Barbour

The Mississippi Delta continues to flounder as unemployment figures average around 18 percent for the 12 counties between Vicksburg and Memphis. Yet, there have been many jobs announcements in the years of the Barbour administration, but very few have had anything to do with the Mississippi Delta. In this latest barrage of economic development announcements, [...] [...]

MBJ Editorial: Barbour’s horse needs a trip to vet before he bets our money

Solar energy may be the wave of the future, but Mississippi should be careful where it comes to being an investor in new companies promising the moon — er, sun. Evergreen Solar in Massachusetts went bankrupt last month, leaving that state hanging after an investment of more than $40 million of taxpayer dollars in the [...] [...]

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