by Associated Press Published: October 21,2011
Tags: Beau Rivage, casinos, gulf of mexico, Haley Barbour, Lady Gaga, Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Revenue, Mississippi Gulf Coast, Mississippi River, September
September was a down month at Coast casinos. The year started with slow but steady growth. Revenue increased in five of the first seven months, and despite slipping in August and September, remains $5.8 million ahead of last year’s pace. August’s $10 million drop in gross casino revenue was followed by a $6 million decrease [...] [...]
Shrimp processors along the Mississippi Gulf Coast have filed for injunctive relief in federal court in an effort to block a proposed rule change by the U.S. Department of Labor in determining wages paid under the department’s H2-B guest-worker program. A late September decision by the Labor Department to delay the new wage-determining rule has [...] [...]
Wade Guice, who saw the Mississippi Gulf Coast through Hurricane Camille in 1969 and fostered public awareness of the need to evacuate when a hurricane threatens, was recently honored when his is the first name to be placed on a wall of remembrance for civil defense leaders. Guice was Harrison County’s Civil Defense director for [...] [...]
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HATTIESBURG- Brian Richard, director of the Center for Community and Economic Development at Southern Miss, talks with MBJ-TV about his ongoing study of the economic impact of the 2010 BP oil spill on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. [...]
Gulf Coast beaches are fine for now, but tourism business is not GULFPORT — For the most part so far, the only thing the BP oil disaster has done to the Mississippi Gulf Coast is hurt businesses dependent on tourism dollars. Residents and experts alike can only speculate about when and how much oil [...] [...]
JACKSON- Gov. Haley Barbour’s June 1 statement regarding the discovery of BP oil in the Mississippi Gulf. [...]
JACKSON- Gov. Haley Barbour announced in a Tuesday afternoon press conference that remnants of the nation’s largest oil spill have reached the Mississippi Barrier Islands. MBJ staff writer Clay Chandler has more about this latest development in the Magnolia Marketplace. See here for related video. [...]
The current mood of tourism on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is a mixed bag. There’s optimism, caution, forward-thinking excitement and some apprehension. As this publication prepares to go to press, the British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico remains unabated and its consequences for Mississippi unknown. At this time, no oil [...] [...]
If oil spill reaches Mississippi beaches, tourism, seafood harvesting could be devastated Connie Cuevas looked out over the water on a beautiful spring day and hoped that it heralded a bounce-back summer for the Coast. General manager of the Holiday Inn Express on Beach Boulevard in Long Beach, Cuevas said with an improving economy and [...] [...]
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