Southern Company owns all of the outstanding common stock of Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, and Mississippi Power, each of which is an operating public utility company. The traditional electric operating companies supply electric service in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi.
Chief Calligrapher Patricia Blair gets the largest sum: $102,212 a year. It might seem odd that the White House spends more than a quarter of a million dollars on fancy penmanship, but calligraphers have been held in rather high esteem at the White House for years.
âObama knelt down, straightened Clarkâs tie, and talked to him for about a minute.â Photograph: Pete Souza/The White House I was invited to a White House reception last year in honour of Black History Month; I had worked on Capitol Hill for 10 years. I was allowed to bring a guest, so I took my three-year-old son, Clark. He knew the significance; he knows who Barack Obama is. His favourite book is our White House Pop-Up Book.