by Associated Press Published: September 24,2012
Tags: alderman, builder, building, building supplies, Business, city, cleanup, construction, contractor, debris, disaster preparedness, flood, flooding, garbage, government, Harrison County Young Lawyers, hurricane, law, municipality, ordinance, rain, stor, storm, surge, trash, tropical, wind
LONG BEACH — Alderman Mark Lishen says Long Beach should require businesses and construction sites to make sure their building materials, trash and trash containers won’t become battering rams in hurricanes. He tells WLOX-TV he wants an ordinance to make sure that such things are secured or removed before hurricanes arrive on shore. Lishen’s current [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: August 30,2012
Tags: building, Business, commercial, COST, industrial, lease, office, price, property, real estate, rent, rental, study, trade association
JACKSON — The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International, using the results from the 2012 Experience Exchange Report (EER), has compiled a list of the most and least expensive commercial real estate city-markets in the United States. The annual report aggregates rental income and operating expense figures from the previous year; in 2011, data [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 26,2012
Tags: Business, federal agency, flood, flood insurance, flood map, flooding, funding, funds, home, house, insurance, residence
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The Federal Emergency Management Agency is providing money to help some areas of Mississippi update their flood maps and develop information on flooding risks. The Vicksburg Post reports the activities dovetail onto work completed since 2002 to update flood maps in Mississippi. In 2011, technical adjustments to Warren County’s maps took areas [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 16,2012
Tags: booklet, Business, city, community, home, house, municipal government, municipality, publication, reidentce, tax, tax increase, taxpayer
CORINTH — The city of Corinth is working on a booklet to show how a proposed property tax increase would affect the tax bill for homes, businesses and motor vehicles. The Daily Corinthian reports the booklet will be distributed at the July 31 public presentation on special tax levy, dubbed Future Fare, at Corinth High [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 14,2012
Tags: Business, fire, fire department, firefighting, home, house, insurance, municipal government, prperty, residence
COLUMBUS — A new ranking for the Columbus Fire Department could mean reduced insurance rates for home and business owners in the city. The Mississippi Rating Bureau has rated Columbus a four, which is up from its rating a five where it has remained for the past 30 years. Mayor Robert Smith tells The Commercial [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 11,2012
Tags: Business, business education, business school, colleges, dean, education, higher education, professors, teachers, teaching, universities
HATTIESBURG — University of Southern Mississippi College of Business dean Lance Nail is leaving for Texas Tech University. Nail will take over as dean of the Texas university’s Rawls College of Business, which opened a new $70 million business building earlier this year. He begins work in Lubbock Aug. 15. Southern Miss Provost Denis Wiesenburg [...] [...]
JACKSON — More than 25 Jackson business leaders, including Mayor Harvey Johnson, former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove and State Sen. John Horhn, traveled to Washington, D.C., late last week to participate in a White House business leader briefing. Leaders from the Jackson business community provided feedback to Obama Administration officials on ways to work together to [...] [...]
HATTIESBURG — Students planning to pursue an Associate in Applied Science degree in Business Marketing and Management Technology at Pearl River Community College will have several class options available to them in the spring semester. Oone option will be the addition of two business marketing day classes on Tuesday and Thursday that will be taught [...] [...]
The first week of May, business owners along Vicksburg’s Washington Street corridor were preparing for the Mississippi River to unleash a flood the likes of which the city hadn’t seen since 1927. They were also preparing for a slow-to-non-existent summer tourist season. Nearly three months later, the water has receded, and the bulk of the [...] [...]
Bankers in Mississippi and elsewhere in the country have penciled in July 21 as the day a new era in America banking regulation begins in earnest. July 21 marks a year to the day that President Obama signed what one Mississippi banking executive calls an “absolute dramatic rewriting of the rules” of banking. Few banking [...] [...]
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