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CB Richard Ellis brings its global network to Jackson

Ted Carter — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:33:48 +0000

Global commercial real estate firm CB Richard Ellis has set up shop in the metro Jackson market, having recruited a trio of longtime Jackson commercial real estate professionals to join the firm’s Grant Ridgway for the opening of an office at 10 Canebrake in Flowood. The arrival of CB Richard Ellis gives Jackson access to [...]

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Mississippi job levels fall to an alarming 17-year low

Ted Carter — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 06:01:47 +0000

Mississippi’s job levels sank to their lowest levels since 1996 last year and ended the year looking slightly worse than 2011, the first quarter Mississippi Economic Outlook reports. The January report from the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning was not all gloom, however. Leading indicators such as retail sales, tax collections and housing starts have [...]

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PERS reverses refusal to release meeting minutes

Ted Carter — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:28:48 +0000

An agreement by the Public Employees’ Retirement System of Mississippi to release minutes of its Oct. 23 meeting has led the Mississippi Business Journal to withdraw a state Ethics Commission complaint it made against PERS. PERS executive director Pat Robertson initially ordered her staff to refuse the release of the minutes until they could be [...]

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Joint legislative report raises points of contention

Ted Carter — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:26:43 +0000

A new joint legislative report suggests several state agencies study whether the state can — or should — sweeten incentives used to attract and retain workers. The Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review, or PEER, says the state needs to examine its employee benefit offerings “in preparation for an uncertain future.” With [...]

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THERE YOU HAVE IT column: Things aren’t cool with cable TV

Ted Carter — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:00:09 +0000

In my little world, Comcast choked as bad last Monday night as LSU did in getting rolled by Alabama in college football’s national championship showcase. I would loved to have watched the game in the comfort of my living room but Comcast fixed things to make sure I didn’t. My neighbor and his buddies in [...]

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Press limitations kept the complete Troy Davis story from getting told

Ted Carter — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:00:19 +0000

Savannah police perp-walked Troy Davis my first day on the Savannah (Ga.) Morning News metro desk back in August 1989. Just named the trigger-man in the shooting death of Savannah Police Officer Mark MacPhail, the handcuffed young black man wore an illustrated T-shirt promoting “Turtles Records & Tapes,” a local record store. The future business [...]

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Q&A John Allison, MS Banking Commission

Stephen McDill — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:16:24 +0000

Health concerns faced by John Allison and his wife have led Allison to announce he will leave his post as Mississippi Banking commissioner Sept. 30. MBJ-TV recently caught up with the state’s chief banking regulator for a look back at his forty year tenure.

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Visit Florida — where 6-Gun Territory is not a theme park

Ted Carter — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 06:00:42 +0000

Something for which to be grateful: Mississippi has Garden&Gun (which, by the way, just won national acclaim for magazine excellence). My home state of Florida, on the other hand, has Parks&Gun (which, by the way, just won national acclaim for stupidity). I left the Sunshine State just after its passage of a “bring your guns [...]

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Courage, ethics beyond the gator skinners

Ted Carter — Sun, 15 May 2011 06:00:45 +0000

I can’t sufficiently express the degree of my respect for reporters who toil in places like Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and — closer to home — Mexico. They are laying it down, folks, so we will have a better idea of what is occurring and why in their strife-torn parts of the globe. I laid [...]

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Next generation entrepreneurs set out to finish in the money

Ted Carter — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 06:00:30 +0000

It’s spring, so what better time for a young man and a young woman’s fancy to turn to — creating a business plan? Sorry, Alfred Lord Tennyson. These Mississippi youngsters can turn their fancies to love later on. For now, they’ve got business to tend to. State finals in the Southern Entrepreneurship Program’s business plan [...]

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