by MBJ Staff Published: May 15,2012
Tags: appointment, Bennie Thompson, Bloomberg, Bobby Jindal, Brent Christensen, capitalism, Clay County, community development, Dave Dennis, economic development, economy, executive, executive director, Florida, Gainesville (Fla.) Area Chamber of Commerce, Gov. Haley Barbour, Gov. Phil Bryant, governor, Greenville, Institutes for Higher Learning, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Development Authority, Nathan Deal, Pew Center on the States, Phil Bryant, politics Tags: Amazon.com, Sean Tindell, state agency, state government
JACKSON — Brent Christensen has been named the new head of the Mississippi Development Authority. Gov. Phil Bryant made the announcement during a press conference at the Marriot Hotel in downtown Jackson. Christensen, who has been the CEO of the Gainesville (Fla.) Area Chamber of Commerce the last 10 years, replaces interim director Jim Barksdale, the [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: April 15,2012
Tags: Capitol Street Associates, Clinton Mississippi, Cushman & Wakefield, Democrat, Department of Finance and Administration, Gov. Haley Barbour, House of Representatives, Jackson Mississippi, Kevin Upchurch, Landmark Center, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Philip Gunn, Sen. David Blount, Tom Weathersby
Sticking it to your neighbor can be a gratifying exercise for some Mississippi legislators — especially when they aren’t personally writing the checks that cover the cost of the sticking. Which brings us to the sticking leaders of the Mississippi House of Representatives gave Jackson and the state’s taxpayers on April 3, the last day [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 28,2012
Tags: Anthony Topazi, Barbour, BGR Group, Bloomberg News, Brandon Presley, Clean Coal Power Initiative, coal, construction, Construction Work in Progress, CWIP, electricity, environment, Florida, Gov. Haley Barbour, Griffith & Rogers Inc., Interpublic Group of Companies Inc., Kemper County clean coal plant, Kemper County clean coal project, Kemper County Coal plant, Leonard Bentz, Lynn Posey, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Power Company, Mississippi State Ethics Commission, Orlando Gasification Project, power, power generation, Power plant, Public Service Commission, Southern Company, state agency, The New Republic, Todd Terrell, U.S. Department of Energy, utilities
>> SEE UPDATE AS OF THURSDAY MORNING …. KEMPER COUNTY — State utility regulators have asked Mississippi Power Co. and the Sierra Club to submit proposals on how to proceed with the Kemper County coal-fired power plant. The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled March 15 that the Public Service Commission failed to lay out its reasoning [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 7,2012
Tags: agriculture, appeal, Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners, Clean Water Act, courts, Cynthia Sarthou, economy, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, federal government, flood, flood control, flooding, Gov. Haley Barbour, habitat, judge, judicial, judiciary, local government, Louie Miller, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi River, North Mississippi, Peter Nimrod, politics Tags: American Rivers, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Roger Wicker, Sen. Thad Cochran, South Delta, state government, Stupidity, the Gulf Restoration Network, the National Wildlife Federation, The Sierra Club, U.S. Congress, U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock, VICKSBURG, Washington, wildlife, Yazoo Backwater Project
NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court panel sided yesterday with the Environmental Protection Agency over its 2008 veto of a $220 million flood control project near the Yazoo River in the south Mississippi Delta. >> RELATED: EPA admits it has no experts on Yazoo Pump Project. The Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners sued the [...] [...]
by Amy McCullough Published: February 3,2012
Tags: Alberta Investment Management Corporation, Artis Capital Management, Biofuels Digest, CNBC, Columbus Mississippi, Fred Cannon, Frontier Capital Management Company, Gov. Haley Barbour, KIOR, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Development Authority, Mississippi Technology Alliance, NASDAQ, Newton County, Pointe Innovation, Securities and Exchange Commission, Strategic Biomass Solutions, Sumesh Arora, Texas, Vinod Khosla, William Blair & Company
The eyes of the international renewable-fuels community are fixed on KiOR (NASDAQ:KIOR), a Texas-based company in which Mississippi has a large stake — specifically a $75 million interest-free loan administered by the Mississippi Development Authority. KiOR plans to build five plants in Mississippi that should convert wood chips to renewable crude through a process called [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 11,2012
Tags: clemency, Gov. Haley Barbour, Haley Barbour, Hinds County Circuit Judge Tomie Green, Jim Hood, judge, Mississippi Attorney General, pardons, temporary injunction, Tomie Green
A Mississippi judge has temporarily blocked the release of 21 inmates who’d been given pardons or medical release by Republican Haley Barbour in one of his final acts as governor. Circuit Judge Tomie Green issued an injunction late yesterday at the request of Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood. Hood said he believes Barbour might’ve violated [...] [...]
Cleaning up from Christmas is a ritual that can last for several days as the kids — and parents — play with their new toys in the living room before finally finding them a permanent home. With that, we will stop saying Merry Christmas and begin to look forward with the greeting of “Happy New [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: December 25,2011
Tags: Blue Springs, Corolla, David Copenhaver, Elvis Presley, Gov. Haley Barbour, MBJ’s Top 5 stories of the year, Toyota, Toyota Motor Corp. president Akio Toyoda, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi, “only fools rush in.”
The Toyota facility in Blue Springs held a “line-off” ceremony Nov. 17 to celebrate what amounted to a delayed grand opening. It was a celebration nearly five years in the making. The star of the show was a black Corolla that was built on Oct. 24, when production started. It will reside in the lobby [...] [...]
JACKSON — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is now backing a congressional proposal to allow states to directly collect sales taxes from Internet and catalog merchants. Barbour expressed support in a letter last week. One estimate shows that Mississippi and its local governments will lose more than $300 million in 2012 because such retailers do not [...] [...]
PASCAGOULA — Construction could start as early as January for Jackson County’s maritime training facility to be built on Ingalls Shipbuilding property. The Board of Supervisors and the Port Authority’s Board of Commissioners are expected to award a $15.6 million contract on Monday to Ben M. Radcliff Contractor Inc. of Mobile. Leaders said it would [...] [...]
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