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New secretary of state has ambitious agenda
By BILL MINOR - Capitol Correspondent
Wed,02/06/08-11:00PM , 155 Reads
JACKSON — Delbert Hosemann, Mississippi’s first Republican secretary of state since Reconstruction, has swept into office with a big broom and some bold new ideas for changing the way the office is run, seemingly aimed at making his job more powerful, especially in the field of voting.
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Business hasn’t been so great under Haley
By BILL MINOR - Capitol Correspondent
Wed,01/30/08-11:00PM , 174 Reads
JACKSON — “If you were working for Sara Lee in West Point or Alan White Furniture in Shannon or for anyone of the dozens of other businesses that have closed in the last four years, life has been tough.”
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McCoy just playing same game as Haley
By BILL MINOR - Capitol Correspondent
Wed,01/23/08-11:00PM , 212 Reads
JACKSON — Haley Barbour brought hard-ball partisan politics to the Mississippi Legislature and quickly taught his fellow GOPers how to play it. Democrats were outmaneuvered until they caught on to what was happening.

But once they did, the Dems showed they could play tough, at least on one side of the Legislature.
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Little is being done to close income gap
By BILL MINOR - Capitol Correspondent
Wed,01/16/08-11:00PM , 181 Reads
JACKSON — We have in Mississippi the highest percentage — 37 percent — of African-American population of any state.
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