Mississippi Business Journal » Doug Davis 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 Sen. Davis Speaks to Stennis Luncheon http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/03/08/sen-davis-speaks-to-stennis-luncheon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sen-davis-speaks-to-stennis-luncheon http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/03/08/sen-davis-speaks-to-stennis-luncheon/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:47:01 +0000 Stephen McDill http://msbusiness.com/?p=38006 JACKSON- State senator and appropriations chairman Doug Davis speaks to the March gathering of the Stennis Institute.

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/03/08/sen-davis-speaks-to-stennis-luncheon/feed/ 0 MEC polling finds growing support for education, training for workers http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/01/02/mec-polling-finds-growing-support-for-education-training-for-workers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mec-polling-finds-growing-support-for-education-training-for-workers http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/01/02/mec-polling-finds-growing-support-for-education-training-for-workers/#comments Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:00:53 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=35088 Business leaders more likely to be optimistic on state economy than voters, survey finds. Mississippians don’t want the state to let up on efforts to create an educated and well-prepared workforce, a Mississippi Economic Council survey of 600 business people and voters shows They’ve witnessed the state roll up successes such as automakers Nissan and Toyota [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/01/02/mec-polling-finds-growing-support-for-education-training-for-workers/feed/ 0 PEER: Some MDA loan programs drastically under-used http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/01/02/peer-some-mda-loan-programs-drastically-under-used/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=peer-some-mda-loan-programs-drastically-under-used http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/01/02/peer-some-mda-loan-programs-drastically-under-used/#comments Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:00:26 +0000 Clay Chandler http://msbusiness.com/?p=35098 Four of the Mississippi Development Authority’s business development loan programs are severely under-utilized, and their future availability is questionable after a report by the Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review Committee (PEER). The PEER report looked at the utilization rates for fiscal years 2006-2010 and FY 2010 year-end fund balances of seven of the MDA’s business [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/01/02/peer-some-mda-loan-programs-drastically-under-used/feed/ 0 Budget, budget, budget http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/12/26/budget-budget-budget/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=budget-budget-budget http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/12/26/budget-budget-budget/#comments Sun, 26 Dec 2010 06:00:53 +0000 Nash Nunnery http://msbusiness.com/?p=34899 Making it work will be a long and arduous process for lawmakers They may align themselves on opposite sides of the political fence, but Democrats and Republicans in the Mississippi Legislature are in agreement about the hot-button issue facing the upcoming 2011 legislative session. “It’s the budget, no doubt about it,” said Rep. Cecil Brown, [...]

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