Mississippi Business Journal » Department of Finance and Administration http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Port of Gulfport bill passes http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/18/port-of-gulfport-bill-passes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=port-of-gulfport-bill-passes http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/18/port-of-gulfport-bill-passes/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:32:07 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=55843 JACKSON — Legislation that removes the Port of Gulfport and its $570 million post-Hurricane Katrina expansion and renovation from state government oversight has been sent to the governor. The Mississippi House gave final legislative approval to House Bill 1091 on Tuesday. The bill exempts the Port of Gulfport from state-agency bidding and purchasing oversight and [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/18/port-of-gulfport-bill-passes/feed/ 0 MBJ EDITORIAL: Signs point to costly provincialism in demise of Landmark http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/15/mbj-editorial-signs-point-to-costly-provincialism-in-demise-of-landmark/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mbj-editorial-signs-point-to-costly-provincialism-in-demise-of-landmark http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/15/mbj-editorial-signs-point-to-costly-provincialism-in-demise-of-landmark/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2012 06:01:02 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=55734 Sticking it to your neighbor can be a gratifying exercise for some Mississippi legislators — especially when they aren’t personally writing the checks that cover the cost of the sticking. Which brings us to the sticking leaders of the Mississippi House of Representatives gave Jackson and the state’s taxpayers on April 3, the last day [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/15/mbj-editorial-signs-point-to-costly-provincialism-in-demise-of-landmark/feed/ 1 Construction to start by year’s end on Eastover development http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/04/construction-to-start-by-year%e2%80%99s-end-on-eastover-development/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=construction-to-start-by-year%25e2%2580%2599s-end-on-eastover-development http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/04/construction-to-start-by-year%e2%80%99s-end-on-eastover-development/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:01:35 +0000 Clay Chandler http://msbusiness.com/?p=53426 Developers of The District at Eastover in Northeast Jackson finally own the site for the mixed-use project. Ted Duckworth and Breck Hines, co-owners of the The District Land Development Co., bought the 21-acre Old Blind School site from the state for $3.3 million. The deal closed Feb. 24. Hines said in an interview last week [...]

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