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Racial politics past and present
By BILL MINOR
Wed,10/04/06-11:00PM , 205 Reads
OXFORD - On a day when we here celebrated the historic demise of racism in this long-beleaguered Deep South state, the foul odor of racial politics has emerged in the campaign of a Virginia Republican senator who had presidential aspirations but now could lose his Senate seat.
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Reunion stirs war memories
By BILL MINOR
Wed,09/27/06-11:00PM , 161 Reads
SAN FRANCISCO - This time when I cruised by tour boat under the Golden Gate Bridge, it was a far happier memory than the one 63 years ago when I sailed out into the Pacific war aboard the USS Stephen Potter, DD538, not knowing when, or if, I would return.
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Winter's wisdom put into print
By BILL MINOR
Wed,09/20/06-11:00PM , 158 Reads
JACKSON - "A good reporter can't be concerned about what toes he may step on or whose feelings he may ruffle in his honest, sincere efforts to get the facts to the public," William Winter said 40 years ago.

He added: "A free society can progress only as it has access to and makes decisions based on the real facts about itself."
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State needs own Marshall Plan
By BILL MINOR
Wed,09/13/06-11:00PM , 222 Reads
JACKSON - In the wake of Katrina, we need in Mississippi a bold state-sponsored affordable housing building program comparable to the monumental U.S. Marshall Plan that rebuilt devastated areas of Europe after World War II.
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