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Read March 22 issue of MBJ

MBJ Staff — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:54:15 +0000

PERFECT PLANTING High Heeled Hippie gets back to the roots of eco-friendly farming by Stephen McDill Also in this week’s paper GRAMMYS Work begins on pioneering museum in Cleveland by Wally Northway ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Alabama court ruling could boost Mississippi’s business recruitment by Clay Chandler AGRIBUSINESS Years-long efforts brings import duties on Vietnamese catfish by [...]

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February 8, 2013- Ricky Nobile

Ricky Nobile — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:43:45 +0000

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Historic low natural gas prices a boon to manufacturers and consumers

Becky Gillette — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 06:01:36 +0000

Natural gas prices are currently the lowest prices, when adjusted for inflation, seen in modern history. That is good news for state manufacturers and customers of utilities that rely heavily on natural gas for electricity generation. Entergy Mississippi now has some of the lowest costs for electricity of any utility in the country, said Entergy [...]

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Entergy warns utility customers of billing scam

Associated Press — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:47:50 +0000

JACKSON — Entergy Corp. is warning utility customers not to fall for a scam where people claim President Barack Obama is providing credits or payments toward bills. The company says more than 2,000 customers, mainly in Louisiana but also in Texas, have been affected. No instances have been reported in Mississippi and Arkansas, but Entergy [...]

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Grand Gulf refueling taking longer than expected

Associated Press — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:42:30 +0000

VICKSBURG — Refueling Grand Gulf Nuclear Station has taken longer than plant officials said a year ago, and officials now aren’t saying when it will be completed. The Claiborne County plant shut down Feb. 19 to refuel the boiling-water reactor and increase its generating capacity by 13 percent. Entergy Nuclear spokeswoman Suzanne Anderson says that [...]

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Small fire reported at Grand Gulf Nuclear Station

Associated Press — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:05:12 +0000

PORT GIBSON — A small fire shut down work in a portion of Entergy’s Grand Gulf Nuclear Station in Port Gibson Wednesday. Grand Gulf spokeswoman Suzanne Anderson tells the Vicksburg Post that there was no danger to workers or the public. Anderson says an unknown number of workers were forced to exit when a fire [...]

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Construction to start by year’s end on Eastover development

Clay Chandler — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:01:35 +0000

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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Pittman receives honor

MBJ Staff — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:00:55 +0000

Amy Pittman, a fuel and analysis engineer at Entergy’s national nuclear headquarters in Jackson, received the North American Young Generation in Nuclear Excellence Award for 2011 during the organization’s annual meeting. Entergy’s NA-YGN chapter at Echelon in Jackson also was honored with the 2011 Chapter Achievement Award for outstanding efforts related to the growth of [...]

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Flood cost estimates will arrive as slowly as water’s fall

Clay Chandler — Sun, 29 May 2011 06:00:14 +0000

The Mississippi River may have reached its crest, but that doesn’t mean state agencies or private sector businesses can start to evaluate the financial hit they have taken from the historic flood. Water started receding the third week of May, but it has so far been a slow drop. National Weather Service officials estimate that [...]

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Charitable Giving & Public Utilities

Stephen McDill — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:14:56 +0000

JACKSON- Northern District Commissioner Brandon Presley on the Miss. Public Service Commission’s ruling this week against public utilities using a “consumer tax” to finance corporate charitable giving.

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