Twitter, the popular micro-blog and short message service (SMS), has become an important marketing tool for companies and their advertising agencies eager to promote different products and services to the public. While celebrity athletes and movie stars still get the most followers, corporate giants like Best Buy, Target and Apple also enjoy a healthy Twitter [...] [...]
Hurricane Isaac’s winds blew so strong for so long that they forced the Mississippi River to flow backwards for more than 24 hours on Aug. 28. As Isaac departed, it left much of Louisiana’s citrus crop in ruins just a month away from harvesting. Isaac’s aftermath in Mississippi is not nearly as bleak as in [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: September 21,2012
Tags: ADP, banking, Chuck Jordan, Eastover, Golden Triangle, Greenville, Hurricane Isaac, Main Street Clinton, Rules of Civility, West Point
>> EASTOVER 2.0 New retail development on track for 2014 opening— by Clay Chandler Also in this week’s paper: >>BANKING Mississippi still atop the list of state’s with most unbanked households by Ted Carter >> ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Golden Triangle economic development model could be copied across state— by Clay Chandler >> AGRICULTURE Isaac’s toll on [...] [...]
As Isaac bore down on the northern Gulf Coast last week, newly purchased reinsurance allowed the head of the Mississippi Windstorm Underwriting Association to concentrate on the storm’s path and its aftermath rather than worry over covering claims. The new reinsurance — and Windstorm Underwriting Association chief Joe Shumaker’s sense of security — had been [...] [...]
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by Associated Press Published: August 28,2012
Tags: Bay St. Louis, BILOXI, Florida Keys, Gov. Bobby Jindal, Gov. Phil Bryant, Gov. Rick Scott, Gulf Coast, gulf of mexico, GULFPORT, hurricane, Hurricane Isaac, Louisiana, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, National Hurricane Center, New Orleans, St. Charles Parish, tropical storm isaac, weather Mississippi
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — A tow truck driver was killed this morning in Pearl River County when a tree fell on his truck, the first death in Mississippi from Isaac. The death of the unidentified driver on a Picayune street came during heavy rain and wind from Isaac, said Pearl River County Emergency Management director Danny [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 27,2012
Tags: Bay St. Louis, BILOXI, Florida Keys, Gov. Bobby Jindal, Gov. Phil Bryant, Gov. Rick Scott, Gulf Coast, gulf of mexico, GULFPORT, hurricane, Hurricane Isaac, Louisiana, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, National Hurricane Center, New Orleans, St. Charles Parish, tropical storm isaac, weather Mississippi
GULF COAST — Hurricane Isaac is lashing New Orleans as it approaches and pushing flood waters over a rural levee south of the city, where authorities believe some people may be trapped. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm’s center early this morning was about 50 miles south-southwest of New Orleans and moving slowly. [...] [...]
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