INSIDE — Q3 performance summaries bring good cheer to state bankers
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Liz Lancaster As the marketing, promotions and event planning coordinator for Mangia Bene, Lancaster helps channel the creativity and energy of executive partners Dan Blumenthal and Jeff Good into the group’s acclaimed catering service and restaurants Broad Street Bakery, Bravo! and Sal & Mookie’s.
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December 6, 2013 • Vol. 35, No. 49 • $1 • 16 pages
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BLACK TELLS ROAD BUILDERS ‘CONGRESS MUST ACT’ BY WALLY NORTHWAY I STAFF WRITER wally.northway@msbusiness.com During the ongoing debate over adequate funding for road and bridge maintenance here in Mississippi, the state’s road builders have pointed to other states and their success in addressing funding shortfalls. The Mississippi Road Builders Association has been asking — if they can do it, why not the Magnolia State? At its Membership Luncheon held last week in Jackson, the MRBA brought in an official who perhaps is most able to address that question.
Alison Premo Black, chief economist with the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), was the featured speaker at the event that drew approximately 160 attendees. Black, who joined ARTBA in 2000 as a research economist, was promoted to senior economist last January. She manages all staff activities in the association’s economics program and is responsible for numerous studies examining national and state transportation funding and investment patterns, including a landmark economic profile of the transportation construction industry. Black offered statistics showing the importance of construction to See ROAD BUILDERS, Page 7
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