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by Ted Carter Published: May 27,2012
Tags: Bank of America, Chase, Citi, GMAC, Jim Hood, Mississippi Center for Legal Services, Mississippi Center of Justice, Mississippi Home Corporation, money management, mortgage settlements, North Mississippi Rural Services, Wells Fargo
The mortgage foreclosure fiasco has turned out to be a bonanza of sorts for Mississippi state government. Mississippi’s general fund will receive a $7.7 cash infusion from the national legal settlement state Attorney General Jim Hood and 48 other attorneys general negotiated with giant mortgage servicers Bank of America, Citi, Chase, GMAC and Wells Fargo. [...] [...]
Growing up in a quiet suburb of Kansas City, Mo., Eric Hughes exhibited a creative bent from an early age. Now the vice president/creative director of Mad Genius, he was also exposed to the advertising industry early. He spent summers during high school working in his dad’s Kansas City agency. “I was the kid who [...] [...]
The background of Brent Christensen, the new executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority, stacks up well against his rivals around the South, a review of the professional biographies of the chief executives of several nearby states shows. One of those rivals, Florida’s Gray Swoope, is well known in Mississippi, having led the Mississippi Development [...] [...]
Former Netscape and FedEx executive Jim Barksdale took over leadership of the Mississippi Development Authority with one over-riding goal — find his replacement. He wanted a pro with a track record of success but he also sought to follow the wishes of state business leaders to hire someone with ties to Mississippi who would “understand [...] [...]
During the last legislative session, supporters of Mississippi’s beer law reform bills listed as one of their benefits the possibility of new breweries opening. Raising the maximum alcohol content in beer from 5 percent alcohol by weight to 10 percent by weight, and letting breweries brew beer that would be illegal here for sale out-of-state, [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 25,2012
Tags: Brent Chistensen, dan mullen, HATTIESBURG, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Development Authority, Mississippi State University, Ole Miss, Pine Belt, University of Florida
Last time the State of Mississippi went to Gainesville, Fla., to fill a job, it scored a winner in Dan Mullen, whom Mississippi State University lured away from the University of Florida football coaching staff to be head Bulldog in Starkville. Consecutive wins over Ole Miss and a pair of bowl victories have the folks [...] [...]
Legislators lived up to expectations that changes to the $20 billion Mississippi Public Employees Retirement System, or PERS, would be too politically radioactive to take on this past session. Gov. Haley Barbour left office in January with an urgent call for lawmakers to reform a system he said was inching toward placing a $1 billion [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: May 20,2012
Tags: Area Development Partnership, Brett Christenen, Chip Morgan, David Rumbarger, Delta Council, Duke University, Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce, Gray Swoope, Jim Barksdale, Leland Speed, Mississippi Development Authority, Mississippi Partnership for Economic Development, University of South Florida
In Gray Swoope, Mississippi lost its last top economic development professional to Florida in the spring of 2011. Now Mississippi has reached into Florida to bring Brent Christensen, Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce chief, to the Magnolia State as a replacement. Christensen, a 10-year-year president and CEO of the Gainesville Chamber, will start work sometime [...] [...]
CLEVELAND — Mississippi Delta farmers took a hit estimated as high as $80 million in last spring’s flooding. But as is the custom in the Delta, despair must give way to renewed optimism with the arrival of the spring planting season. The financial consequences of the Mississippi River flooding last spring that submerged 200 square [...] [...]
A surprise was waiting for Charley Hutchison when he got home from school on April 30. It was the reward for hours of work that might have landed the 12-year-old a spot in mobile technology history. Hutchison had spent several months working to develop an app for Apple that combined the mobile photo sharing app [...] [...]
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