The Mississippi Business Journal articles

Recent articles from The Mississippi Business Journal

Minimum wage--does anyone care anymore? Next hike drawing little attention.
June 22, 2009... In 2007 when President George W. Bush signed the Fair Minimum Wage Act, which amended the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and mandated an incremental increase in the national minimum wage, emotions ran high. Some Mississippians were even more animated over the issue when, for the first time...

'College Bounds': state superintendent tapped as commissioner of higher ed.
June 22, 2009... Hank Bounds' career curve has been pretty steep. He started his career in education as a teacher at Petal High School. Before he tamed 40, he was the Mississippi state superintendent of education, named to that post in August 2005. Last week, Bounds, 41, took another major step when...

Blue Collar is no joke: electricians, plumbers, carpenters and others needed.(Book Biz)
June 22, 2009... Blue Collar & Proud of It by Joe Lamacchia, with Bridget Samburg (HCI) $15.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] All of your teenager's friends are going to college. Harvard, Howard, a couple to the state U., small private colleges. They're going to become doctors and teachers, programmers and...

Getting the job done right in ARRA disbursement.(Op-Ed)
June 22, 2009... The stimulus package, formally known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), is a reality. Whether you were for it or against it, it doesn't matter. The reality is that Mississippi now has the responsibility to spend, track and comply with this new federal law. To say that...

State should be more responsible.(Letters to Editor)(Letter to the editor)
June 22, 2009... Editor: I recently heard Larry L. "Butch" Brown, the head of the Mississippi Department of Transportation, say that it would only, I repeat, only cost $3 million to light up the Mississippi River bridge in Natchez. Wow! Isn't that great? Similarly, I have been reading and...