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Is danger ahead for utility companies?

Becky Gillette — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:54:11 +0000

At one time telephone companies had monopolies providing landline telephones. Deregulation meant that telephone companies were split up, people could choose which company to get service from, and telephone companies lost their monopoly. Later, cell phones further disrupted the landline telephone company model. Could monopoly power companies be the next business model to be disrupted [...]

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State analysis pinpoints state share of Medicaid expansion through 2025

Ted Carter — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:01:00 +0000

A math problem with a very big human element. That is a description an executive with the Mississippi Hospital Association recently gave the question of whether the state should expand its Medicaid rolls to include several hundred thousand of Mississippi low-income residents. The math part of the question came closer to an answer last week [...]

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Upon further review: State had negative GDP for 2011

Ted Carter — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 06:01:06 +0000

Mississippi dipped back into recession in 2011, with overall economic output shrinking 0.8 percent, according to federal figures released last Tuesday. The Magnolia State was one of only six states where the economy contracted in 2011, along with Alabama, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey and Wyoming, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported. Senior economist Marianne [...]

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State’s economic indicators up but not net job growth

Ted Carter — Sun, 13 May 2012 06:01:32 +0000

State economists say Mississippi is showing some spring in its step but concede there’s no increase of people walking into new jobs. They attribute the bouncy step to six consecutive months of increases in two key measures of economic health: The index of leading indicators and the index of coincident indicators. What’s more, the probability [...]

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