Mississippi Business Journal » Dr. Hank Bounds http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 MEC hopes new ‘Blueprint’ as successful as first http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/01/07/mec-hopes-new-%e2%80%98blueprint%e2%80%99-as-successful-as-first/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mec-hopes-new-%25e2%2580%2598blueprint%25e2%2580%2599-as-successful-as-first http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/01/07/mec-hopes-new-%e2%80%98blueprint%e2%80%99-as-successful-as-first/#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:40:17 +0000 Clay Chandler http://msbusiness.com/?p=35348 Latest Blueprint Mississippi unveiled at the annual A Capital Day event last week In 2004, the Mississippi Economic Council rolled out Blueprint Mississippi and pointed toward two major initiatives: improving education and the tort climate in the State of Mississippi. There were tangible successes. Education funding increased in the years after, and tort reform, after [...]

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