by Scott Reed Published: June 20,2010
Tags: column, finances, MBJ, Scott Reed
Well, it’s no wonder that everyone is once again worried about the stock market. What with Greece having problems funding their debt, (not the Broadway show but the actual country), and Goldman Sachs out there creating products and then betting against their own children, so to speak, after selling them in good faith to their [...] [...]
by Phil Hardwick Published: June 14,2010
Tags: column, community leadership, MBJ, Phil Hardwick
Successful communities often have community leadership programs. Such programs are designed to identify, train and engage emerging leaders to improve the quality of life in their communities. Community leadership programs are not new. Leadership Philadelphia (Pa.), which claims to be the oldest community leadership program in the country, held its first class in 1959-60. Leadership [...] [...]
by Marty Wiseman Published: June 6,2010
Tags: column, Marty Wiseman, MBJ, View from the Stennis Institute
The debate over the need to let free market capitalism run free and unfettered versus the demand for tightened government involvement in the form of increased regulation is moving from the ridiculous to the sublime. Indeed, it has been astounding recently how a speaker has lamented, often in the same sentence, the expansion of government [...] [...]
by Nancy Anderson Published: June 6,2010
Tags: column, MBJ, Nancy Anderson, retirement
The idea of retirement, much less a plan to cover it, is a modern one. In most countries, Grandma just moves in with you when she can’t support herself anymore. General Motors started the first private retirement plan in 1950 in the United States. It was a defined benefit plan, also known as a pension. [...] [...]
by For the MBJ Published: May 9,2010
Tags: Cartoon, graduates, MBJ, ricky nobile
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by For the MBJ Published: May 9,2010
Tags: Cartoon, Gunn, MBJ, Politics, ricky nobile, Straughter
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by Nash Nunnery Published: May 3,2010
Tags: Construction Mississippi, MBJ
Though he wears a white collar to work everyday, Joel Bobo has an affinity for the construction industry and the blue-collar folks that transform raw materials into architectural splendor. For the past 22 years, the Ridgeland CPA has plied his trade in construction accounting for Horne LLP, one of the nation’s top [...] [...]
by Nash Nunnery Published: May 3,2010
Tags: Clinton Boyd, Construction Mississippi, MBJ
Clinton Boyd is your typical construction project manager. His fourth-floor downtown Jackson office is characteristic of a senior project manager’s quarters, chock-full of drawing desks, computers, blueprints, codebooks and timetables. What isn’t typical is that Boyd does his job from a wheelchair. The Florida native is paralyzed from the chest down, the result of [...] [...]
by Nash Nunnery Published: May 3,2010
Tags: Construction Mississippi, Guier Fence, Lea Bailes, MBJ
Two years ago, owning a fence company was the last thing on Lea Bailes’ mind. Bailes, a 29-year-old Texan who has degrees in law and accounting from Baylor University, was enjoying his law practice. However, when father-in-law Kelly Guier decided it was time to retire, Bailes adjusted his career goals and assumed leadership of [...] [...]
by Nash Nunnery Published: May 3,2010
Tags: Construction Mississippi, market strategies, MBJ, Perry Nations
With the downturn in the economy, construction company owners and independent contractors are scrambling to find ways to develop better marketing strategies to attract new business. After all, construction spending tumbled in February by $11.6 billion, or 1.3 percent, to $846 billion, a low last recorded in 2002, according to an analysis of the latest [...] [...]
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