by Associated Press Published: February 6,2012
Tags: Columbus, Ethics Commission, Hinds County Circuit Court, Mississippi, Mississippi Gulf Coast, Public Utilities Committee, Rankin County, Rep. Jeff Smith, Service Printers of Flowood, State Rep. Kevin McGee
JACKSON — A Rankin County lawmaker has been ordered by the state Ethics Commission to repay the state $346,554 from public printing contracts that went to his family business.
State Rep. Kevin McGee was also fined $50,000 for the dealings.
McGee, a Republican from Brandon, owns — along with family members — Service Printers of Flowood.
State law [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: December 18,2011
Tags: Doctor's Hospital of Mobile, GULFPORT, HATTIESBURG, Hurricane Katrina, Janet Williams, Lighthouse Business and Professional Women, MBA program, Memorial Hospital at Gulfport, Mississippi Gulf Coast, Norwich Eaton Pharmaceuticals, nursing, nursing schools, nursing shortage, Providence School of Nursing, Tradition campus, University of Alabama-Birmingham, University of South Alabama, University of South Alabama Medical Center, University of Southern Mississippi, William Carey University
Dr. Janet Williams, R.N., Ph.D., dean of the Joseph and Nancy Fail School of Nursing at William Carey University, was recently awarded a 2011 Woman of Achievement Award in the education category by the Lighthouse Business and Professional Women organization. Lighthouse BPW represents successful women in every sector of the Mississippi Gulf Coast’s business community, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 3,2011
Tags: Adam and Eve, addiction, being human, Bioethics, Bishop Joseph Latino, choice, conversion, Cultural Psychiatry, death, Duncan Gray, Europe, faith, freedom, Garden of Eden, global health, guilt, innocence, instrumentalisation, Last Night, life after death, Mississippi, Mississippi Gulf Coast, Morality, Neuroscience, objectification, objectivity, Personhood, Pharma Culture, Politics, Pope John Paul II, Psychiatry, Rabbi Deborah Kassoff, Relationships, scientific research, seeing, sex, sexuality, shame, staring, subjectivity, suffering, technology, the look, Theology of the Body
Mississippi religious leaders are split on a “personhood” initiative on next Tuesday’s ballot.
Initiative 26 would amend the state constitution to declare life begins at fertilization.
The state’s largest religious group, the Mississippi Baptist Convention, supports the proposal, as does the Tupelo-based American Family Association.
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Two of the state’s four barrier islands, which are the keys to both the Coast’s ecology and economy, are in jeopardy, and state and federal agencies are now in a race with time and nature to reverse the damage.
The operation is focused on the most threatened island, Ship Island, but authorities are also worried about…
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With an accounting background and more than 30 years experience in banking, John Walton says he’s exactly where he wants to be as the new division president, Mississippi Gulf Coast, with BancorpSouth Bank.
“I love what I do,” he said. “One of the great aspects of my job is getting to meet a lot of people [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 21,2011
Tags: Haley Barbour, Harry Schmidt, Heidelberg Steinberger Colmer & Burrow, Karl Steinberger, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Gulf Coast, Parker Jewelry, Parsley's Barber Shop, Pascagoula, Pascagoula Redevelopment Authority, Phil Bryant, Redevelopment Authority
PASCAGOULA — The donation of two downtown Pascagoula buildings to the Pascagoula Redevelopment Authority could boost efforts to revitalize that Gulf Coast city’s downtown area.
The Heidelberg Steinberger Colmer & Burrow law firm donated the former Parker Jewelry and Parsley’s Barber Shop buildings to the Redevelopment Authority on Thursday.
The authority will market [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 21,2011
Tags: Beau Rivage, casinos, gulf of mexico, Haley Barbour, Lady Gaga, Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Revenue, Mississippi Gulf Coast, Mississippi River, September
September was a down month at Coast casinos.
The year started with slow but steady growth. Revenue increased in five of the first seven months, and despite slipping in August and September, remains $5.8 million ahead of last year’s pace.
August’s $10 million drop in gross casino revenue was followed by a $6 [...] [...]
Shrimp processors along the Mississippi Gulf Coast have filed for injunctive relief in federal court in an effort to block a proposed rule change by the U.S. Department of Labor in determining wages paid under the department’s H2-B guest-worker program.
A late September decision by the Labor Department to delay the new wage-determining rule has the [...] [...]
Wade Guice, who saw the Mississippi Gulf Coast through Hurricane Camille in 1969 and fostered public awareness of the need to evacuate when a hurricane threatens, was recently honored when his is the first name to be placed on a wall of remembrance for civil defense leaders.
Guice was Harrison County’s Civil Defense director for 35 [...] [...]
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