Mississippi premiums among highest in health exchange
JACKSON — Mississippi is one of the poorest and unhealthiest states in the nation, and its residents will face some of the highest premiums under
USPS seeking increase in cost of stamps, to 49 cents
WASHINGTON — It soon could cost 49 cents to mail a letter. The postal Board of Governors said Wednesday it wants to raise the price
PEER proposes review of trauma care cost
JACKSON — Two incidents that occurred within months of each other prompted Mississippi public health leaders and lawmakers to invest in a trauma care system.
Tooth Fairy inflation: Price of a tooth nears $4
NEW YORK — Days of finding a quarter under your pillow are long gone. The Tooth Fairy no longer leaves loose change. Kids this year
Groups spar over use of money in Kemper power plant fight
JACKSON — 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
PSC says Kemper plant rate cap to stand
JACKSON — Southern District Public Service Commissioner Leonard Bentz says he won’t vote to raise the $2.4 billion cap set by regulators for the Southern
Despite boom, higher costs push Big Oil into slump
NEW YORK — New troves of oil have been found all over the globe, and oil companies are taking in around $100 for every barrel
Southern Co. taking $450M charge for Miss. plant
ATLANTA — Southern Co. shareholders will absorb $450 million in losses incurred while building a new coal-fired power plant in Mississippi, raising the total write-offs
MDOT sees good roads as economic engine
The Mississippi Department of Transportation is dealing with its maintenance crisis the only way it can — shifting money away from new construction to the upkeep of more than 27,000 lane-miles.
CL&W board mulls possible TVA rate hikes
Columbus Light and Water Department General Manager Todd Gale said Tennessee Valley Authority officials have scheduled a conference call for July 31 with all of its distributors — one day before the regional power agency’s 60-day deadline to announce any rate changes.
Wyatt Emmerich: Kemper: Taxpayers take all the risk, no upside
With the latest rate increase caused by the runaway Kemper power plant, Mississippi Power residential customers will be paying 66 percent more for their electricity than Entergy customers in Mississippi.
$33,000 spent on sequestered jurors
About $33,000 was spent to sequester the six female jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman of any crime for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, according to details released Wednesday by the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office.
Miss. public universities plan tuition increases
Tuition at Mississippi’s eight public universities will increase by an average of more than 6 percent this fall, an amount universities say is needed to make up for the lingering effects of state aid cuts during the recession.
Miss. Power: More overruns likely at Kemper
JACKSON — Mississippi Power Co. warned Monday that costs are still increasing at the power plant it’s building in Kemper County. The unit of Atlanta-based
Oil price falls below $95 a barrel
BANGKOK — The price of oil fell below $95 a barrel today as traders awaited the latest U.S. government report on energy supplies. Benchmark oil
A respite for Medicare; Social Security no worse
Medicare’s long-term health is starting to look a little better, the government said Friday, but both Social Security and Medicare are still wobbling toward insolvency within two decades if Congress and the president don’t find a way to shore up the trust funds established to take care of older Americans.
Oil below $93 ahead of US crude inventory data
BANGKOK — The price of oil fell today as traders awaited the latest U.S. crude inventories data. Benchmark oil for July delivery was down 56
Southern Co. CEO defends power project
PINE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — The head of Southern Co. called the decision to write off $540 million in extra costs on a Mississippi power plant
Kemper costs claim Miss. Power’s president
JACKSON — Ed Day said his main job as president of Mississippi Power Co. was to successfully complete the company’s Kemper County power plant. Now,
Costs rise at Kemper plant, says Miss. Power
GULFPORT — Mississippi Power Company said Tuesday that customers won’t have to pay more to cover its Kemper County plant’s cost, which has risen from