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Gov. names new director of MDA
Gov. Phil Bryant has named Brent Christensen, a local economic developer from Florida, as executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority. Christensen will replace interim director Jim Barksdale, the former Netscape CEO who has served since January. Barksdale helped lead the search for a director. "I've repeatedly said that the most important appointment I would make would be the man or woman that would head MDA," Bryant said Tuesday at a business gathering in Jackson. "I'm confident we found the right person for the job." Christensen, 42, began his economic development career at the Area Development Partnership in 1994 in Hattiesburg. For the past 10 years, he has served as president and CEO of the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce in Gainesville, Fla., a metro area with about 265,000 people. Clarion-Ledger
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At new Austin quarters, Intel exec says, there are 'huge opportunities going forward'
Intel Corp. unveiled its new Austin development site Tuesday to company officials, dignitaries and the 1,100 workers who will start moving there beginning next week. With 200,000 square feet of office space and 70,000 square feet of common area, including a spacious cafeteria, the space will be a roomy, new home for the development team responsible for Intel's Atom family of low-power processors and more specialized systems-on-a-chip created for smartphones and other mobile devices. Company officials agreed that, over time, Intel will fill up the space with more workers. Austin American-Statesman
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By Glenn McCullough, Jr.
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On February 9 the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission did something it has not done in 34 years: approve a license (two in fact) to build two advanced nuclear reactors. For a consortium of utilities constructing two advanced nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle on the Georgia-South Carolina border, this means major strides generating 2,200 megawatts of new electricity, enough for approximately one million homes and businesses.
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By Dan Juneau
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National, state, and local business groups from around the country opposed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka “ObamaCare”) when it was being debated in Congress last year.
Many trade association representatives (including this writer) went to Washington to express business community concerns about the legislation and to request votes against it. History records that the legislation (all 2700 pages of nearly incomprehensible jargon) was finally enacted on party line votes in both chambers and signed into law by President Obama.
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by Mike Randle
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The headline above is of a great song from the '70s. It was by The Outlaws and was recorded in 1975 (go straight to You Tube to listen to it and bring the entire staff into your C-suite and rock on). I was a student but more like the starting shortstop for the University of Tampa Spartans baseball team in 1975.
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