by MBJ Staff Published: September 30,2011
Tags: Alabama, Area Development Magazine, Bill Parcells, California, Georgia, healthcare, Indiana, Lady Gaga, Louisiana, Marianne Hil, Mississippi, Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning, National Football League, New Economy Index, New York Giants, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, union
Positive is great. Reality is, well, real. Every once in a while, a talking head will rebut some statistic that’s not favorable to his or her opinion by saying, “Yeah, well, you can make statistics say whatever your want them to say.” Super Bowl winning coach Bill Parcells, however, famously said, “You are what your [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: July 3,2011
Tags: Georgia
Role models are wonderful things, but sometimes you want to be careful about them. Such is the case with the aspirations of Mississippi’s business and civic leaders to be like the State of Georgia. The Peach State in general and Atlanta in particular have had plenty of success to boast about over the last couple [...] [...]
More than three out of four of Mississippi’s business and civic leaders believe the state in coming years can duplicate the economic success achieved by Georgia and North Carolina. At the same time, however, nearly half think their children must leave Mississippi to find a “good job.” Those are a pair of key findings of [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 26,2011
Tags: Arkansas, Birmingham, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Georgia, Jay Bradford, Kentucky, Lady Gaga, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mississippi Republican, Missouri, North Dakota, Ole Miss, poverty, Rep. Alan Nunnelee, Small Business Administration, Tennessee, tornado, U.S. Census Bureau, University of Mississippi
The regions that most need insurance after tornadoes are often the exact places that don't have much of it. [...]
The Wall Street Journal called it a fiasco, when Range Fuels suspended its operations in Soperton, Ga., in February this year before making hardly any of the cellulosic ethanol that it was expected to produce. The grants and loans have been called welfare for the rich venture capitalists, and WSJ calls for an end to [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: February 18,2011
Tags: Alabama, CADE, Cadence Bank, Cadence Financial Corp., Community Bancorp, Florida, Georgia, Jon Boydstun, Lewis Mallory Jr., Mark Abernathy, NASDAQ, Paul B. Murphy Jr., Securities and Exchange Commission, Tennessee
By Ted Carter The early March closing of an acquisition by Houston banking investment company Community Bancorp LLC will mark the end of Cadence Financial Corp. Chairman & CEO Lewis Mallory Jr.’s 47 years with the Starkville-based regional bank. Mark Abernathy, Cadence’s president, is expected to be elected CEO and Paul B. Murphy Jr., Community [...] [...]
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