Publisher's Commentary
Catfish are becoming king in the
Delta
Once thought of as merely a "'bottom feeder"
and not much else, the country is finally waking up to Mississippi Delta
raised catfish. On a recent visit to New York, Cindy and I were pleasantly
surprised and pleased to see that catfish was listed on the menu in a well
known restaurant there.
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Aftermath of proposed state labor
department
Did the Delta dodge a bullet?
BY Elizabeth Reid
Contributing Writer, Delta Business Journal
Proposed legislation that would have created
a state department of labor died in committee March 7, a move opponents
to the bill said saved Delta taxpayers thousands of dollars.
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Delta Blues Museum develops community
education program
BY Karen Bryant
Contributing Writer, Delta Business Journal
Richard Bolen knows well the value of relationships.
Bolen, who is Director of Marketing and Development for the Delta Blues
Museum in Clarksdale, had hoped to establish some mutually beneficial relationships
when he planned a Buddy Guy concert in the fall of 1998.
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Special Emphasis Section
In this issue of the DBJ, we take a special look at Greenwood.
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Delta Development
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April 2000 Issue
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Deposit Guaranty changes name
to AmSouth
Delta natives in leadership roles
When merger activity was completed March 20 and
the name of Deposit Guaranty National Bank, a division of First American,
was officially changed to AmSouth, a pair of Delta natives guided the transition
- state executive (overseer of Mississippi operations) and Leland native,
William L. Watson and Jackson area executive (city president) and Inverness
native Stan Pratt.
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Businesses not worried about Net
safety
Risk lower than mail order
Even though there's much talk about security
on the Internet, it's often safer than mail order.
"I don't think you'll ever completely eliminate
fraud," said Greg Hayman, general manager of TecInfo, an internet service
provider, in Leland. "Look at mail order catalogs. That fraud's been going
on for years. If you did a comparison, I don't think you'd find the percentages
of fraudulent transactions too much different from mail order. After all,
you're giving a credit card number to someone you have no clue about. Internet
websites have validation procedures to verify cardholders' identity. Mail
order doesn't."
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