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  Hurricane Isaac’s late August battering of the Mississippi coast has left an estimated 1,500 businesses eligibility for low-cost federal disaster recovery loans administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration. In addition to disaster assistance applications from 1,558 businesses that claim at least some property damage, another 27 businesses that had no physical damage but [...]

Please visit msbusiness.com/video for a look at our work from last week. We … >> went behind-the-scenes with Entergy Mississippi in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac, >> learned about West Nile disease, >> discussed the bed & breakfast industry in Mississippi … >> and celebrated our 2012 class of “Best Places to Work.” This week [...]

  Taxpayers who live in or have a business in Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and Pearl River counties have been been granted specific tax deadline relief based on declaration of the Mississippi counties as federal disaster areas in the wake of hurricane Issac. Certain deadlines falling on or after Aug. 26, and on or before Jan. [...]