Recently added articles from The Mississippi Business Journal:
The real deal? Many aspects of potential plant leaves Mississippians scratching their heads.(SPECIAL REPORT: GreenTech Automotive unveils plans to build plant in Mississippi)
Oct 12, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Last Tuesday in Tunica, a Chinese businessman made the biggest economic development announcement in Mississippi in almost three years, and Gov. Haley Barbour was nowhere in sight. Xiaolin "Charles" Wang said his automotive manufacturing facility would ...
They thought they were protected; victims of Stanford Financial scheme still trying to find ways to collect money they lost.
Oct 12, 2009; ... Both officials and victims of the Stanford Financial scheme who testified at a hearing at the State Capitol last week focused on the failures of two federal financial regulatory agencies and begged for state assistance in the retrieval of funds for destitute Americans. The ...
Hosemann: Stanford denial is weak.
Oct 12, 2009; ... At last week's hearing, both officials and victims who testified repeatedly implored the state to fight for Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) funds for victims in the worst circumstances. SIPC, created by Congress in 1970, guarantees up to $500,000 per investor in case of ...
Latham brings '5 Guys' franchise to state; Ridgeland the first Of 12-15 locations around the state.
Oct 12, 2009; ... For more than three decades, Bill Latham's reputation as a restaurateur has been unparalleled in the metropolitan Jackson. Upscale and urbane establishments, past and present, such as Char, Amerigo, Scrooge's and the Sundancer restaurants were brought from concept to ...
City workers feeling the pain of recession; Mississippi stats, however, are better than other areas.(Brief article)
Oct 12, 2009 ... From staff reports Unemployment rates were higher in August than a year earlier in all 372 metropolitan areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports. Sixteen areas recorded jobless rates of at least 15 percent, while nine areas registered rates below 5 percent. ...