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Clinton losing ADP as company shifts up to 100 jobs to Georgia

Ted Carter — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:38:16 +0000

Automatic Data Processing, a business-outsourcing provider more commonly known as ADP, is shutting down in Clinton and moving its approximately 100 jobs to Augusta, Ga. New Jersey-based ADP has not responded to phone calls over the last couple of days but a spokesman for the Mississippi Development Authority confirmed the company’s departure from the South [...]

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Global warming? Half of all U.S. counties now considered disaster areas because of drought

Associated Press — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:44:41 +0000

ST. LOUIS — Nearly 220 counties in a dozen drought-stricken states were added Wednesday to the U.S. government’s list of natural disaster areas as the nation’s agriculture chief unveiled new help for frustrated, cash-strapped farmers and ranchers grappling with extreme dryness and heat. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s addition of the 218 counties means that [...]

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Habitat, other housing non-profits gain freedom from mortgage origination rules

Ted Carter — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 06:01:35 +0000

A state law signed in late May relieves Mississippi’s Habitat for Humanity chapters of requirements that each chapter have a person certified to originate mortgages. That provision of the state’s version of the federal Secure and Fair Enforcement Mortgage Licensing Act, or SAFE, mandated that any organization or individual originating more than five mortgages a [...]

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Immigration bill eliminates provisions blocked by federal court

Ted Carter — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:18:01 +0000

Mississippi apparently won’t be getting a fully Alabma-style anti-immigration bill — at least not if the state Senate goes along with keeping from the final bill certain provisions removed by the House. The House version passed last Thursday could also keep Mississippi from the legal difficulties Alabama encountered earlier this month when the 11th Circuit [...]

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Mississippi included in Michael Foods egg recall list

Associated Press — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:15:29 +0000

MINNETONKA, Minn. — A Minnesota food company is widening its recall of hard-cooked eggs because of a potential for listeria contamination. Michael Foods, of Minnetonka, is recalling eggs in brine sold in 10- and 25-pound pails for institutional use in 34 states. The eggs carry six brand names: Columbia Valley Farms, GFS, Glenview Farms, Papetti’s, [...]

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Mild temps reduce electricity sales for TVA

Associated Press — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:09:58 +0000

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Valley Authority said a mild winter so far has reduced electricity sales by 5 percent in the first quarter of the fiscal year and will cause the utility to reconsider expenditures for the rest of the year. The utility said in a news release on Friday that its first quarterly [...]

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Clinical therapist Thomas Pough helps bring sex addiction out of the shadows

Lynn Lofton — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:01:01 +0000

As a college student, Thomas Pough made the discovery that counseling was for him. A series of positions and moves led him to Pine Grove Behavioral Health & Addiction Services in Hattiesburg in 1996. An outgrowth of Forrest General Hospital, it’s one of the nation’s most comprehensive treatment centers and Mississippi’s largest. “I’ve always been [...]

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TVA chief operating officer McCollum to retire

Associated Press — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:38:37 +0000

The Tennessee Valley Authority’s chief operating officer, 60-year-old Bill McCollum, says he will retire June 30. McCollum announced his plans in a Wednesday telephone call with reporters. As chief operating officer, McCollum oversees management of power production, transmission, power trading and resource management programs. McCollum said he plans for the next six months to mainly [...]

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Feds assess sites for renewable energy potential

Associated Press — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:19:31 +0000

Determining the potential of former landfills, brownfields and Superfund sites around the country to host solar panels and other renewable energy projects is the focus of a new assessment federal researchers announced Friday. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado plan to spend the next year to 18 months [...]

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Study: Georgia immigration law brought crop losses of $181M

Ted Carter — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 06:00:21 +0000

Georgia’s new law cracking down on undocumented migrant workers in the state caused eight of 10 growers of perishable fresh fruit and vegetable crops to see labor shortages this spring, a Georgia Department of Agriculture survey found. An analysis of the survey by the University of Georgia put overall losses to the agricultural industry at [...]

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