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Highland Village in Jackson renews fashion icon Maison Weiss
WS Development is pleased to announce the lease renewal for the long standing fashion icon Maison Weiss. The store has been at Highland Village since it was founded by Nell and Bernie Weiss in August...
View ArticleBCBS of Alabama won’t renew plans cancelled under Obamacare
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama will not reinstate health plans that were not in compliance with the Affordable Care Act, the insurance provider announced Wednesday, citing “significant legal and...
View ArticleBCBS of Mississippi maintaining non-Obamacare compliant policies
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi is not following the lead of BCBS of Alabama in cancelling health plans not in compliance with the Affordable Care Act. In a statement Thursday morning, the...
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UMMC’s Landmark purchase gets IHL nod
A sizable chunk of downtown Jackson’s vacant office space will soon move to the occupied side of the ledger with the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s planned purchase of the Landmark Center....
View ArticleBOBBY HARRISON: Dynamics of U.S. Senate race take shape in Mississippi
By Bobby Harrison JACKSON, Mississippi — In recent years, Republicans’ efforts to take over the United States Senate have been thwarted at least in part by the ultra-conservative wing of the party –...
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Wal-Mart board elects Doug McMillon to succeed Mike Duke as company CEO
Wal-Mart’s board of directors have elected Doug McMillon as the company’s next CEO. Doug McMillon, who unloaded trucks at a Wal-Mart distribution center for hourly pay while working his way through...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Bullfighting in Mississippi is a cruel event; boycott
OPEN LETTER TO PETE CASTONERA – ORGANIZER OF MISSISSIPPI BULLFIGHTING Very disappointed with you Pete. There was I advising opponents of your Mississippi Bullfighting promotion not to type personal...
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Joint Legislative panel’s $5.86 billion budget leaves 2,000 jobs unfilled
JACKSON, Mississippi – Who is the big spender here? The tag goes to Gov. Phil Bryant based on his $6.1 billion 2014 spending plan. In fairness to Bryant, Mississippi’s Joint Legislative Budget...
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Bryant proclaims 2014 ‘The Year of the Creative Economy: Mississippi Homecoming’
JACKSON — Gov. Phil Bryant proclaimed 2014 as the “Year of the Creative Economy: Mississippi Homecoming” during a ceremony with renowned pianist Bruce Levingston, a Mississippi native. The “Year of...
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Doctors at UMMC complete state’s first pancreas transplant
JACKSON, Mississippi – Building on the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s record of firsts, surgeons transplanted a pancreas and kidney into a 49-year-old man on Thursday night, marking the...
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Entergy, ITC discontinue pursuit of transmission spin/merger
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) and ITC Holdings Corp. (NYSE: ITC) announced today that the companies have mutually agreed to end their pursuit of a spin/merger of Entergy’s...
View ArticleMississippi DEQ wants your ideas for Environmental Justice conference
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) is seeking suggestions on speakers and topics for Environmental Justice conference the state agency is sponsoring this year to recognize the...
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Cochran, Wicker and Palazzo support Navy plan to locate Seabee batallion in...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), and U.S. Representative Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.), today said they support a U.S. Navy plan to station additional...
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BCBS expecting new owner of HMA’s Miss. hospitals to help keep costs down
Community Health Systems of Franklin, Tenn., completion Monday of its acquisition of Hospital Management Associates in a i$7.6 billion deal gives CHS ownership of 12 of HMA’s former Mississippi...
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Pangasius exporters upset Cochran beat back repeal of catfish inspection rule
The new five-year farm bill the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate compromised on this week failed to cut out the U.S. catfish inspection program, putting a barrier on catfish imports into the...
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Brand compatibility leads CVS to snuff out store tobacco sales
CVS Caremark will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its stores by Oct. 1, making the nation’s second-largest drugstore chain in the first national pharmacy to pull tobacco products...
View ArticleGentiva Health to cut ‘hundreds’ of jobs, close 46 locations
Gentiva Health Services Inc., whose website lists 24 locations in Mississippi, including two in Fl,owood, says it is closing 46 of its home health-care locations across the country. Hundreds of...
View ArticleUncle Ben’s recalls rice product
GREENVILLE — Following reports of illness among several teachers and schoolchildren in Texas, Greenville’s Mars Foodservices U.S. has issued a voluntary recall of its Uncle Ben’s Infused Rice sold to...
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Producers learn how to grow safe, healthy product
With increased scrutiny on food safety, a recent event looked to give local growers the latest and greatest in the safe handling of their product from planting to harvest. More than 20 fruit and...
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Louisiana billboards advocating Medicaid expansion spur legal threats from state
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s Mardi Gras celebration has ended and a war with the progressive political group MoveOn.org has begun. MoveOn.org’s lawyers received a cease-and-desist letter from state...
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