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Read May 24 issue of MBJ

MBJ Staff — Fri, 24 May 2013 19:47:04 +0000

>>COVEY OF CONCERN Officials hoping quail numbers will rebound - by Wally Northway Also in this week’s paper: >>MEMORIAL DAY Gulf Coast group honors state’s surviving World War II veterans- by Stephen McDill >>ENERGY Mississippi Power finds new leadership, regulators probe executive’s document witholding- by Clay Chandler >>DELTA COUNCIL Stabenow, Cochran brace for Senate vote on Farm Bill- by Ted Carter >> OUR [...]

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PSC’s Mississippi Power probe continues as regulators mull next move

Clay Chandler — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:26:19 +0000

An abrupt leadership change at Mississippi Power Co. spurred by the former president’s stonewalling the Mississippi Public Service Commission has regulators plotting their next steps. Southern Co.’s board of directors voted Monday to name G. Edison “Ed” Holland the utility’s new president. Holland replaces Ed Day, who was named president in 2010. Day has spent [...]

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HARDWICK: Choosing the best lease as an entrepreneur

Phil Hardwick — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:18:10 +0000

Whether you are a one person entrepreneur or the vice president of real estate for a national retail chain it is important to understand the basics of leasing, and the more common types of leases. In general, commercial and retail leases can be classified as a gross lease, a net lease or a percentage lease. [...]

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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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Officials hoping quail numbers will rebound

Wally Northway — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:57:15 +0000

Wayne Ranson grew up in the Mississippi Delta with a passion for the outdoors. Quail hunting ranked among his favorite pastimes, and he once raised and trained pointers and could literally quail hunt from his home if he wanted. But, that is just all a warm memory now. “They’re almost all gone,” said Ranson, a [...]

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Department of Environmental Quality developing water sources plan

Ted Carter — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:50:09 +0000

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality is preparing regulations that will govern how oil and gas companies use both surface and below-ground water sources in their water-intensive hydraulic fracturing operations in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale development. What the agency comes up with could determine whether Mississippi ever sees the billions of dollars in economic impact [...]

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Counties ‘hoping to get it right’ as they await Tuscaloosa Marine shale boom

Ted Carter — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:41:33 +0000

Folks in Southwest Mississippi may not realize it but boardrooms of oil companies from New York to Odessa, Texas, have their little part of the world in their cross-hairs. Lured by the prospect of extracting billions of barrels of premium oil and gas from a couple miles below ground, the companies are coming to town [...]

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IHL launches minority business enterprise

Clay Chandler — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:24:09 +0000

The College Board has started a program trustees hope will ease the procurement process between minority-owned businesses and state universities. The Mississippi Public University Minority Economic Opportunity Initiative is designed to ensure minority-owned businesses have everything they need to be included in the bidding process when universities start one. “The Board of Trustees has asked [...]

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“College Hunks Hauling Junk” franchise opens in Capital City

Stephen McDill — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:16:12 +0000

College Hunks Hauling Junk. The company’s name itself is a conversation piece, according to owner Carl Carter. Carter opened the Jackson moving services franchise in January at the age of 50 after spending more than 20 years in the insurance industry. “Some people may find it a little crazy,” Carter says. “After you’ve done something [...]

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Is danger ahead for utility companies?

Becky Gillette — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:54:11 +0000

At one time telephone companies had monopolies providing landline telephones. Deregulation meant that telephone companies were split up, people could choose which company to get service from, and telephone companies lost their monopoly. Later, cell phones further disrupted the landline telephone company model. Could monopoly power companies be the next business model to be disrupted [...]

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