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Good idea or not?

Amy McCullough — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:00:27 +0000

See related Feb. 4 Business Blog post, ‘Haley Barbour and Khosla Ventures’ and Feb. 11 post, ‘WSJ: Learned from Khosla-backed energy startups that tanked.’ State leaders agree that affordable and reliable energy is essential for Mississippi’s future economic growth. Gov. Haley Barbour has said his energy policy is “more of it” and has aggressively promoted [...]

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PEER: Some MDA loan programs drastically under-used

Clay Chandler — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:00:26 +0000

Four of the Mississippi Development Authority’s business development loan programs are severely under-utilized, and their future availability is questionable after a report by the Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review Committee (PEER). The PEER report looked at the utilization rates for fiscal years 2006-2010 and FY 2010 year-end fund balances of seven of the MDA’s business [...]

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Incentive enhances profits

Laura Smith — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:01:15 +0000

Of Mississippi’s 82 counties, 49 of them are located within the Go Zone region Tax incentives created under the Gulf Opportunity Zones legislation in 2005 have helped spur economic development as the region recovers from hurricanes that rocked the region that year. Extensions for the federal legislation have been approved by the U.S. Senate [...]

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