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In an election year when politics dominated headlines, perhaps Chuck Jordan’s sweeping victory in the Greenville mayoral race topped them all. In a surprising landslide victory, banker-turned-politician Jordan took more than 64 percent of the vote to become Greenville’s next mayor. Not only was this his first political campaign, Jordan, a white, took 40 percent [...]

This is the second Christmas we have had our online video series MBJ-TV and we wanted to post links to some of our holiday-related videos this year. First off, Ridgeland CFA Nancy Anderson evaluates the 2011 Christmas retail season and how it could affect the economic outlook of 2012. Then we visit the Viking Cooking [...]

Any businesses out there looking for a creative Christmas card idea might want to follow Sheldon Laboratory Systems’ lead. The Crystal Springs-based company sends one of the most effective yet simple cards I’ve ever seen. Every year, Sheldon employees “commission” their children to craft Christmas-related artwork. The company then uses the artwork to design its [...]