TUPELO — For 42 years, Gerald Wages has been a pillar of leadership at North Mississippi Health Services.
In 1969, he started as assistant administrator and CFO of the Tupelo hospital. Wages, who served as interim chief executive three times for the hospital system, is retiring as executive vice president for community hospitals for North Mississippi [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 31,2012
Tags: distribution, earnings, electricity, energy, executive team, generation, net income, power, publicly traded company, retirement, retiring, revenue, senior management, utility
NEW ORLEANS — Entergy Corporation has announced changes on its executive team following the announcement of two of its officers.
Gary Taylor, group president of utility operations at Entergy Corporation, will be retiring from the company May 31. Taylor will continue to lead utility operations with a transition period to his successor, who will be named [...] [...]
In this week’s MBJ — The 2011 MBJ YEAR IN REVIEW: See what the Mississippi Business Journal chose as its top stories.
Also in this week’s paper:
>> KEEP YOUR RESOLUTION: Jackson running guru Jeff Seabold gives inventive hints for the new year
>> RETIREMENT: Changing PERS board’s makeup could spark high-profile fight — by TED CARTER
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In this week’s MBJ — BUSINESSPERSON OF THE YEAR: It is our inaugural Businessperson of the Year award. Find out whom we are honoring with our most prestigious award of the year.
Also in this week’s paper:
>> AN MBJ INVESTIGATION: A financial relationship exists between UMMC and the embattled Delta Health Alliance. — by CLAY [...] [...]
Brooks Mosley is president of Jackson-based Independent Pensions Solutions, a retirement plan administrator catering to small companies in the region. IPS is a subsidiary of Security Ballew that oversees more than 7,000 participants in 250 plans and specializes in teaching small business owners about changes in 401(k) plan administration, including new rules taking effect in [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 15,2011
Tags: elections, judges, justices, law, Politics, retirement, state government, voters, votes, Voting
BATESVILLE — Mississippi Supreme Court Presiding Justice George C. Carlson Jr. of Batesville plans to retire at the end of his term in January 2013. He will complete the term, but will not seek reelection in November 2012.
Justice Carlson, 65, will have completed 30 years of public service as a judge in January 2013, with [...] [...]
JACKSON — The wait for the report from the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) Study Commission will be longer than expected.
The Governor’s Office announced the Nov. 15 deadline would be missed.
The statement from the governor reads: “Due to the complicated nature of the review of the state Public Employees’ Retirement System, the PERS Study Commission [...] [...]
SOUTH MISSISSIPPI — The Governor’s Judicial Advisory Committee is conducting a search to replace Justice William Myers, who will retire from the Mississippi Court of Appeals Dec. 31.
Myers holds the District 5, Position 1 seat on the state’s second highest court. The district includes Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Lamar, Pearl River, Perry, Stone [...] [...]
JACKSON — A top Mississippi lawmaker says budget writers deserve to hear directly from the leader of a governor’s commission that’s studying the Public Employees Retirement System.
House Banking Committee Chairman George Flaggs, D-Vicksburg, says he’s considering issuing a subpoena for Gulfport Mayor George Schloegel, the man appointed by Republican Gov. Haley Barbour to study PERS.
Flaggs [...] [...]
The growing tempest enveloping the Public Employees Retirement System of Mississippi (PERS) did not have to happen.
That is not to say that its current status as being 65 percent funded should not be given some attention. Nevertheless, as has been pointed out a number of times, the Mississippi system is in relatively good health, but [...] [...]
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