Pascagoula LNG Terminal Awaits Federal Export OK
Investors spent $1 billion building a facility in Pascagoula to import liquefied natural gas. But plans to bring natural gas into the United States collapsed when explorers began finding large …
Barbour's Ties to Southern Co. Questioned in Race
A candidate for Alabama's utility regulatory board has lined up a fundraiser with former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who helped to found a Washington lobbying firm that has represented the …
Business
JRA Moving on Farish, Slowly
The history of Farish Street's renovation efforts, which Jackson architect Steven Horn first proposed in 1983, is as shameful as the area is illustrious.
Biz Roundup
Barber Shop, Burn Center, Recycling and USM
Next month, partners Justin McPherson and Eddie Outlaw—a frequent contributor to the Jackson Free Press—will open a new business, The Fondren Barber Shop, next to their William Wallace Salon (2939 …
Hood Hits Google on Guarding Intellectual Property
Attorney General Jim Hood says he's trying to organize state attorneys general to push Google to better protect intellectual property.
Judge Suspends Some BP Settlement Payments
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the administrator of a multibillion-dollar settlement over BP's 2010 Gulf oil spill to immediately suspend making settlement offers and payments to some businesses that …
Business
Kemper County Knew It: Plant Won't be Ready On Time
Residents of Kemper County suspected, and now Mississippi Power is confirming, that the utility's 582-megawatt power plant will not be complete by May 2014.
Miss. Power Confirms Kemper Plant Delay
Mississippi Power Co. says its Kemper County power plant won't be finished by the original May 2014 deadline.
Business
Fighting the Power in Kemper County
Barbara Correro's house sits just off an unpaved road of sandy, bright-red clay and under a canopy of shortleaf and southern yellow pine, sweetgum, oak, flowering dogwood, elm and hickory …
Business
Metrocenter For Sale
After a year of being revamped and renovated, Metrocenter mall is up for sale.
Biz Roundup
Outlets, Self-Employment and Feuer Powertrain
Colliers International Atlanta secured a $55-million construction loan for the Outlets of Mississippi.
BP Accused of Lying to Gov't During Gulf Oil Spill
BP lied to the U.S. government and withheld information about the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico after its well blew out in 2010, attorneys told a …
Kemper Delay Could Cost Shareholders $133 Million
Mississippi Power Co. could announce in coming days that it won't meet a May deadline to start commercial operation at the $4.3 billion power plant it's building in Kemper County.
Business
The Impact and Echoes of the Wal-Mart Discrimination Case
When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 5-4 decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes in June 2011, no one needed a Richter scale to know it was a Big One.
Business
Metrocenter Listed for $6.5 Million
Real estate broker The Overby Company is listing Metrocenter Mall, once a commercial powerhouse, for sale at $6.5 million.
