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New color, same racial politics
By BILL MINOR - Capitol Correspondent
Wed,09/12/07-11:00PM , 376 Reads
JACKSON — It used to be the black man. Now it's also the brown man — Hispanics. Straw men in Mississippi politics. Painted as a racial threat so white voters will know who's “us” and who's “them.”
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The little radio station that could
By BILL MINOR
Wed,09/05/07-11:00PM , 155 Reads
JACKSON - On Aug. 29, 2005, when Bay St. Louis-Waveland became ground zero for the fury and wave surge of Katrina, one tiny radio station, WQRZ-LP, a non-profit, low-power FM station, became ravaged Hancock County's sole communication link to the outside world.
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Pickering got home cooking
By BILL MINOR
Wed,08/29/07-11:00PM , 134 Reads
JACKSON - Twelve years in the U.S. House but with nothing notable to remember from his time in Congress. That's the political epitaph Republican Chip Pickering leaves when he steps down next year from his 3rd District seat.
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GOP lining up on Barbour ticket
By BILL MINOR
Wed,08/15/07-11:00PM , 185 Reads
JACKSON - Running candidates for statewide office from the same political party as a ticket, historically taboo in Mississippi politics, evidently is about to become the 2007 campaign strategy of the state Republican Party.
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