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College Board picture of progress
By BILL MINOR
Wed,09/06/06-11:00PM , 177 Reads
JACKSON - You could say Dr. D.E. Magee Jr. came through the back door to become president of the state College Board and one of a rare number of Mississippi blacks to ever occupy that lofty position.
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Raid sparked end of prohibition
By BILL MINOR
Wed,08/30/06-11:00PM , 124 Reads
JACKSON - It took 58 years to get rid of Mississippi's farcical, corrupt statewide prohibition law. Ironically, a liquor raid on a posh country club in February 1966 triggered its doom.
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Barbour's armor showing cracks
By BILL MINOR
Wed,08/23/06-11:00PM , 132 Reads
JACKSON - Presidential non-candidate Haley Barbour was recently up in Iowa, the presidential testing ground, telling folks down here that we're through the Katrina recovery stage and now working on rebuilding.

How's that again? Recovery done? What recovery?
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Open primary almost made it
By BILL MINOR
Wed,08/16/06-11:00PM , 155 Reads
JACKSON - A note on White House stationery written in 1970 by Mississippi GOP leader Clarke Reed to Jerris Leonard, then head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights section, almost put this state's elections under the open primary system now used in Louisiana.
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