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Reporter took historic beating
By BILL MINOR
Wed,07/11/07-11:00PM , 225 Reads
JACKSON - Bob Gordon was short, ever-smiling, the most unthreatening news reporter you could imagine. Didn't do him much good that September in 1966 when he arrived in suit and tie to cover the court-ordered integration of Grenada High School.
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Left out of the Coast's recovery
By BILL MINOR
Wed,06/27/07-11:00PM , 124 Reads
BILOXI - Ten minutes and a mile or so from the jangling slot machines of the pristinely restored row of gaming casinos, you come upon the post-Katrina wasteland of East Biloxi where working-class neighborhoods stood two years ago and now, block-after-block, just gaping holes.
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Battles loom over closed primaries
By BILL MINOR
Wed,06/13/07-11:00PM , 214 Reads
JACKSON - Federal District Judge W. Allen Pepper in Greenville quietly demolished Mississippi's century-old party primary election law last Friday night, declaring it worked in one-party days, but won't in today's two-party system.
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"Slew" McCain was born leader
By BILL MINOR
Wed,06/06/07-11:00PM , 366 Reads
JACKSON - Often my Navy destroyer, the USS Stephen Potter, was called upon at sea in World War II to transport some admiral from his flagship to the flagship of the fleet commander for a conference.
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