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Is Senate bound for a shake-up?
By BILL MINOR
Wed,09/24/03-11:00PM , 136 Reads
JACKSON - Beyond the governor's race, and other state office races, some high stakes speculation is making the rounds in Capitol circles.

One is that Senate Republicans may seek key changes in rules to curb the powers of the next lieutenant governor.
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Dixiecrats morphed into GOP
By BILL MINOR
Wed,09/17/03-11:00PM , 397 Reads
JACKSON - Appropriately, a new book, "The Dixiecrat Revolt and the end of the Solid South," begins with this quote from Oliver Emmerich, the late editor of the Enterprise-Journal of McComb:
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Ex-Eastland crony back in news
By BILL MINOR
Wed,09/10/03-11:00PM , 200 Reads
JACKSON - Checkered Corinth businessman Thurston Little - to my knowledge the state's oldest political hack, and a camp-follower of the late master politician Jim Eastland - has popped up again on the state's political radar screen.
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Income tax is logical place to turn
By BILL MINOR
Wed,09/03/03-11:00PM , 41 Reads
JACKSON - That dreaded "T" word. Taxes. Nobody running for office in Mississippi this year wants to hear the word.

Especially neither Ronnie Musgrove nor Haley Barbour, one of whom will head the next state administration. One of them will have to face the fiscal train wreck the state has dodged for three years.
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