Automatic Data Processing, a business-outsourcing provider more commonly known as ADP, is shutting down in Clinton and moving its approximately 100 jobs to Augusta, Ga. New Jersey-based ADP has not responded to phone calls over the last couple of days but a spokesman for the Mississippi Development Authority confirmed the company’s departure from the South [...] [...]
Like any good salesman about to embark on selling a new product, Brent Christensen has assessed his product’s strengths and weaknesses. The new executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority sees the state set to play a strong hand in the energy and health care sectors. Mississippi’s hand is on the weak side, though, in [...] [...]
Speaking publicly for the first time since taking over as head of the Mississippi Development Authority June 6, Brent Christensen sounded optimistic notes on the state’s prospects in the energy and medical sectors but cautioned strides must be made in preparing Mississippians for 21st century jobs. In a talk before the Madison County Business League [...] [...]
Veteran newspaperman Michael Stewart has been named the Meridian Star’s executive editor. Publisher Crystal Dupre says Stewart come to Meridian after working the last three years as both the north county editor of the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., and as the editor of a sister paper to that publication, the [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: August 9,2012
Tags: abstinence-only education, banking, Black & White, Brent Christensen, credit unions, Google, home buying, Kemper County, Mississippi Development Authority, Mississippi Power Company, nursing faculty shortage, Yazoo City
>> CLASS CRUNCH Experts: Troublesome nursing faculty shortage to get worse— By Clay Chandler Also in this week’s paper: >> KEMPER UPDATE PSC to examine formula rate plans for Entergy, Miss. Power— by Clay Chandler >>TECHNOLOGY Google shares the ‘how-to’s’ of getting your business online— by Ted Carter >>MDA New chief cites potential in energy, medical [...] [...]
Young professionals from Virginia to California have been chosen for the first class of Forty for the Future: Travel’s Leading Talent. The Southeast Tourism Society (STS), an Atlanta-based professional association in the tourism industry, organized the recognition. The honorees in Mississippi are: Selah Havard, director of sales, Natchez Convention and Visitors Bureau; Mary-Kathryn Herrington, director [...] [...]
The state’s tourism director, Mary Beth Wilkerson, has resigned her post to take a position with the Ridgeland Tourism Commission. Wilkerson left her position effective June 15. Wilkerson, who had been with the state tourism office for 20 years and nine months, had served as MDA tourism director for two and a half years. [...]
Eight years chairing the Mississippi Senate Agriculture Committee led Cindy Hyde-Smith to conclude there’s a lot of gold to be mined down on the farm. The state just needs to more vigorously dig for it, she decided after a dozen years in the Senate and a lifetime working in agriculture. As the state’s newly elected [...] [...]
The Cirlot Agency recently hired Meredith Chase as director of brand strategy. Her career highlights include working with the Mississippi Development Authority following the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill and providing economic development support for Harrison County Development Commission. Chase’s work has earned her multiple awards, including several Addy Awards and the International Economic Development Council [...] [...]
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