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Article: Internal changes at MDA swift and sweeping.(Focus: economic development)
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- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Since Gov. Haley Barbour appointed Leland R. Speed as the new executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority Jan. 8, it was the first of many sweeping changes inside the state's economic development agency.
"Personnel changes are common when a new governor, especially a new party, comes into power," said Mike Randle, publisher of Birmingham, Ala.-based Southern Business & Development magazine. "Of the states I've covered, I've seen about 30 new governors, and about half of them have made significant personnel changes."
Even though soon after he was appointed, Speed said he didn't like staff turnover, state tourism director Darienne Wilson ...