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Article: MEDC honors state's long-serving economic developers, projects.(Mississippi Economic Development Council )
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- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- August 13, 2007
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Being recognized by his peers as a new honorary lifetime member of the Mississippi Economic Development Council (MEDC) humbled Charleigh Ford.
"I've been a member of MEDC for a long time, which I think is the cream of the crop in economic development organizations," says Ford, who helped establish the Columbus-Lowndes Development Link and the East Central Mississippi Economic Council. "For them to honor me in that way was very much appreciated. I was very flattered."
Robert Ingram, president and CEO of the Baldwin County Economic Development Alliance in Robertsdale, Ala., who spent three decades in economic development ...