BILOXI — The city of Biloxi wants Amtrak to bring back the Sunset Limited. Members of the Biloxi City Council approved a resolution Tuesday. Right now on the coast, train service is exclusively the transportation of freight. Biloxi officials say the Gulf Coast region is isolated from the nation’s passenger train system. In late August [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 17,2012
Tags: American Queen, Delta Queen, Department of Transportation, Great American Steamboat Company, Memphis, Mississippi Queen, Mississippi River, New Orleans, Old Court House Museum, U.S. Maritime Administration, VICKSBURG, Vicksburg National Military Park
VICKSBURG — For the first time in three years, the sounds of an authentic Mississippi River steamboat calliope will be heard when the American Queen docks at City Front in Vicksburg. The Queen was to arrive at 8 a.m. Tuesday and dock until 4 p.m. on its maiden journey since being acquired last year by [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: March 19,2012
Tags: Alabama, Decatur, Georgia, Huntsville Times, immigration, Micky Hammon, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, New Orleans, The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Supreme Court
Mississippi apparently won’t be getting a fully Alabma-style anti-immigration bill — at least not if the state Senate goes along with keeping from the final bill certain provisions removed by the House. The House version passed last Thursday could also keep Mississippi from the legal difficulties Alabama encountered earlier this month when the 11th Circuit [...] [...]
BP will pay an estimated $7.8 billion to settle a lawsuit over the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill with attorneys representing thousands of individual plaintiffs and businesses on the eve of a major trial in a New Orleans federal court, the company said Friday night. The Washington Post reported the settlement does not [...] [...]
by Lynn Lofton Published: February 19,2012
Tags: Bruno Mars, Hibernia Bank, kudzu, Louisiana, McComb, Mississippi, Mississippi Association of Realtors, Mississippi Business Journal, New Orleans, Noggin, Realtor Institute, Southern Methodist University, Southwest Mississippi, Vanderbilt University, Watkins Wild, Wild Realty
>> Realtor has name to fit these heady times Right off the bat, Realtor Watkins Wild of McComb says it’s okay to call him by his nickname, “Noggin,” because that’s what everyone has called him all his life. As a successful Realtor and president of the Mississippi Association of Realtors (MAR), he’s called Noggin and [...] [...]
by Lynn Lofton Published: February 19,2012
Tags: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, A New Orleans Family Memoir, Audubon Zoo, Crescent City, Louisiana, Lynn Lofton, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, New Orleans, Plaquemines Parish, Rodney Fertel, Ruth Fertel, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak, Willie Morris
The sub title of this work of non fiction is “A New Orleans Family Memoir.” It is that and more. Where else could this true tale of two bigger-than-life eccentrics take place? Anyone who loves the Crescent City, its food, culture, rowdy history and characters will enjoy this book because its sweep includes a wide [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 5,2011
Tags: Alabama, Iowa, ITC Holdings Corp., Joseph L. Welch, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Orleans, Rnterrgy, Texas
Utility holding company Entergy Corp. plans to spin off its electric transmission business and merge it into ITC Holdings Corp., which operates power transmission lines in the Midwest. Entergy, based in New Orleans, said Monday that it will receive about $1.78 billion in cash, and its stockholders will receive shares of a new company created [...] [...]
NEW ORLEANS — A Harahan, La., man has pleaded guilty to stealing government funds. U.S. Attorney Jim Letten says Vernon Ponder pleaded guilty Thursday before U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon. Letten says Ponder applied to the Mississippi Development Authority and to the U.S. Small Business Association for money to repair his vacation home [...] [...]
NEW ORLEANS — Attendance at meetings and conventions in New Orleans dropped in 2009 as travelers and exhibitors took a tighter hold on their money. Tourism officials say that although the city played host to more meetings in 2009 than in the previous three years following Hurricane Katrina, attendance dropped 10 to 25 percent, depending [...] [...]
In wake of Hurricane Katrina, Coast Democrat urges reform to National Flood Insurance Program WASHINGTON — Just before President Obama’s visit to New Orleans Oct. 15, Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) wrote the President urging the administration to reform the National Flood Insurance Program and revisit the Taylor-written Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2009. Taylor says [...] [...]
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