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America loses a great journalist
By BILL MINOR
Wed,05/02/07-11:00PM , 200 Reads
JACKSON - As the nation's news media reflected with reverence last week on the tragic car crash death of distinguished reporter-writer David Halberstam, we Mississippians who had been intimately touched by his life grieved with a deep sense of personal loss.
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Oh, for those smoke-filled rooms
By BILL MINOR
Wed,04/25/07-11:00PM , 67 Reads
JACKSON - The prospect that 20 large states alone next February will determine the 2008 presidential nominees of both major parties makes old political writers such as I yearn for the days when party nominees were picked in a smoke-filled room or a wide-open national convention.
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The first "new South" governor
By BILL MINOR
Wed,04/18/07-11:00PM , 152 Reads
JACKSON - A group of school kids with their teacher stood outside the governor's office on the third floor of the State Capitol chanting "Waller, Waller, Waller" as the big man with a wide grin emerged from the office.

"I thought Sullivan got it," one little guy in the back row blurted out.
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The GOP's counterrevolution
By BILL MINOR
Wed,04/11/07-11:00PM , 153 Reads
JACKSON - Did the civil rights revolution in Mississippi during the 1960s unintentionally enable the rise of a conservative counterrevolution which remade the Southern political landscape in the 20th century?
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