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FBI agent helped stop reign of terror
By BILL MINOR - Capitol Correspondent
Wed,10/22/08-11:00PM , 132 Reads
JACKSON — When in June 1964, three young civil rights workers — part of a small army of Mississippi “Freedom Summer” activists — disappeared in Neshoba County, Lyndon Johnson picked up the phone and ordered FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to assemble a massive team of agents in Mississippi to crack the suspected murders.
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GOP patronage job ends up badly again
By BILL MINOR - Capitol Correspondent
Wed,10/15/08-11:00PM , 188 Reads
JACKSON — Once again a Republican political hack Sen. Thad Cochran had put into the patronage plum job of state director of USDA Rural Development — long known as the Farmers Home Administration — seems to have gone sour.
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WWII flattop set to reopen to visitors
By BILL MINOR - Capitol Correspondent
Wed,10/08/08-11:00PM , 171 Reads
JACKSON — After all the grim economic news out of Wall Street, there was at least one cheerful story last week. Following a two-year facelift, the tough old aircraft carrier Intrepid came back to its New York waterfront home, soon to again host thousands of visitors.
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Barbour machine starting to show wear
By BILL MINOR - Capitol Correspondent
Wed,10/01/08-11:00PM , 184 Reads
JACKSON — Haley Barbour tried to rig the Nov. 4 election ballot to help his in-trouble Republican U.S. Senate candidate and surprisingly got kicked in the teeth by an 8-l vote of state Supreme Court.
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