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.
About $100,000 was spent at the Wall Street Journal, the only newspaper selected by the visitors bureau to run its print ads. The bureau has also tapped former American Idol contestant Jasmine Trias to promote her home state on talk shows Aug. 26. The campaign comes during a record year for visitor arrivals to Hawaii. Hawaii welcomed a record 3.6 million visitors in the first half of the year, 7% more than the first six months of 2004, officials said.