Business
Crowds Funding Local Entreprenuers
Jackson personal trainer Keith Richardson has a dream to own and manage a shoe store, and he's found a creative way to get it done. Now, he needs the community's …
Facebook Aims to Get More People Online
Facebook wants to get more of the world's more than 7 billion people—all of them, actually—online through a partnership with some of the world's largest mobile technology companies.
Groups Spar Over Use of Money in Power Plant Fight
A free-market advocacy group that opposes Mississippi Power's $4.7 billion coal-fired power plant under construction in Kemper County now finds itself on the defensive, accused of using public funds in …
Business
City Saving Bundles On Overtime
City officials believed switching to electronic monitoring of city employees' work hours would pay off, and now they have proof.
Biz Roundup
Conkrete, Arts and Trails
Dr. Mark Malone and historian Scott Barretta are working with MAC's Folk and Traditional Arts Program to develop lesson plans that explore Mississippi's history via the Mississippi Blues Trail.
Miss. Jobless Rate Falls as Labor Force Dips
Mississippi's unemployment rate fell by a half percentage point to 8.5 percent in July, hitting lowest level in more than four years, but only because the state's labor force shrank.
Business
Zoo Gets County Funds
Rumors have swirled for weeks that the Jackson Zoo, the largest zoological park in Mississippi, was eyeing new digs across town at LeFleur's Bluff Golf Course, located in a state …
Business
Unfair Share: How Oil and Gas Drillers Avoid Paying Royalties
Manipulation of costs and other data by oil companies is keeping billions of dollars in royalties out of the hands of private and government landholders.
Business
Mississippi's Push for Health-Care Dollars
More than 700 people gathered at the Jackson Convention Center yesterday, eager to understand how health care can be a driver for creating jobs and boosting revenues in Mississippi.
Business
Hosemann Trashes SEC
Mississippi is once again locking horns with the federal government, but this time it's about neither guns nor affordable health-care insurance—it's about securities fraud.
Businesses Seek Cure for Health Care Cost Surge
A survey of owners taken last month by the advocacy group National Small Business Association found that 20 percent have held off on implementing a growth strategy because of rising …
Technology
Historical Revisionism: A Review of ‘Civilization V’
The “Civilization” series is still releasing engrossing strategy games after two decades.
Business
The Payday Playbook: How High-Cost Lenders Fight to Stay Legal
Outrage over payday loans, which trap millions of Americans in debt and are the best-known type of high-cost loans, has led to dozens of state laws aimed at stamping out …
Business
Slave to the Payday Lender
Although some states are tightening restrictions on quick-loan businesses, Mississippi's lawmakers have had a large hand in helping the industry expand.
Bentz Defends Kemper as He Prepares to Leave PSC
Public Service Commissioner Leonard Bentz hasn't set a date to resign and become executive director of the South Mississippi Planning and Development District. But the Republican probably won't be a …
