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.
In The News Today. 1  Donald Trump hosted Sarah Palin, Kid Rock, and Ted Nugent at the White House. Nugent has called Barack Obama a mongrel and defended apartheid. 2  Marine Le Pen has embraced being a woman, and that might just help her become the next big far-right world leader ð«ð·.