Recent News & Commentary

DeSoto weathers housing slump
Aug 31, 2010 by: Robert Lee Long/DeSoto Times-Tribune

DESOTO COUNTY - DeSoto County is fairing slightly better than the national average in sales of existing homes, according to real estate professionals in the state's fastest growing county.

Existing home sales nationally plunged to 27 percent, t...
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Methodist hospital approved
Aug 04, 2010 by: JB Clark--DeSoto Times Tribune

OLIVE BRANCH - The Mississippi Department of Health granted Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare's certificate of need request to build a hospital in Olive Branch.

The decision, which came Thursday, has Olive Branch officials and residents excited. ...
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DeSoto County gets $150,000 planning grant for I-69 corridor
Aug 04, 2010 by: Henry Bailey--The Commercial Appeal

DeSoto County got the long-awaited green light -- and that other, crucial green, cash from a $150,000 federal grant -- to hit the road for a strategic plan for development along the Interstate 69/269 International Trade Corridor.

The grant was ...
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Olive Branch Reels in Another Company
Jul 30, 2010 by: ANDY MEEK | The Daily News

Olive Branch will add nearly 1,000 jobs thanks to a trio of major economic development deals involving the creation of new plants and a hospital facility.

Even more impressive for the North Mississippi town: the announcements of this impressive...
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Housing starts up 1.5%
Sep 17, 2009 by: Fox Business News

New home construction increased in the month of August according to an article on Fox Business News.
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Changes in Chuck Roberts Commercial Real Estate
Aug 31, 2009 by: Chuck Roberts

New changes were announced recently in the organizational structure of Chuck Roberts Commercial Real Estate by President/CEO Chuck Roberts. Roberts announced that longtime agent and Director of Technology and Property Management, Randy Jones, was...
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Mortgage Rates Hold Steady
Aug 31, 2009 by: Memphis Business Journal

Mortgage rates holding steady.
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Consumer Spending Edges Up
Aug 31, 2009 by: Memphis Daily News

Consumer Spending
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Cooper Tire Expands Tupelo Facility
Jul 31, 2009 by: Memphis Business Journal

Findlay, Ohio-based Cooper Tire and Rubber Co. is expanding its Tupelo plant to add a new mixing facility. Cooper is investing $6.5 million in the project, which is expected to add 35 jobs.
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Legislature fails in budget talks
May 31, 2009 by: The Commercial Appeal

JACKSON -- After four days of on-again, off-again negotiations, Mississippi legislators adjourned Friday without reaching agreement on a budget for the 2010 fiscal year that begins July 1.

House and Senate budget negotiators will continue talk...
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