{"id":83896,"date":"2011-04-06T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=83896"},"modified":"2011-04-07T13:29:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T18:29:54","slug":"mullins-local-economy-improving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=83896","title":{"rendered":"Mullins: Local Economy Improving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/04\/tom-mullins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/04\/tom-mullins.jpg\" alt=\"Mullins: Local Economy Improving\" title=\"Mullins: Local Economy Improving\" width=\"125\" height=\"152\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-84079\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Local economic trends are continuing to improve, according to information presented at the annual luncheon of the Tyler Economic Development Council. President\/CEO Tom Mullins says examples include growth in the area&#8217;s population, workforce, and tax base.  Among other things, he adds, that means more prospect activity.  Mullins says, &#8220;We&#8217;ll be announcing a new project here in a couple of weeks that&#8217;ll be creating some new jobs; we have a very promising prospect that&#8217;s got Tyler on the short list.&#8221;  Guest speaker was former State Senator and Lieutenant Governor Bill Ratliff, who talked about politics and the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Local economic trends are continuing to improve, according to information presented at the annual luncheon of the Tyler Economic Development Council. President\/CEO Tom Mullins says examples include growth in the area&#8217;s population, workforce, and tax base. Among other things, he adds, that means more prospect activity. Mullins says, &#8220;We&#8217;ll be announcing a new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=83896\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mullins: Local Economy Improving<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 09:22:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83896"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84214,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83896\/revisions\/84214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}