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.
White House photo by Paul Morse. Americans have long enjoyed telling ghost stories. From the ghost of Abigail Adams doing her laundry in the East Room to the spirit of Dolley Madison overlooking the Rose Garden, the White House has its own legend of ghost stories that have been passed down over the years.