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Where to point finger for job loss
By BILL MINOR
Wed,08/27/03-11:00PM , 156 Reads
JACKSON - A page-one story in the New York Times last week under a Greenville, S.C., dateline caught my eye. Textile manufacturers in South Carolina were up in arms about that state's big loss of jobs in recent years.
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Head Start doesn't need fixing
By BILL MINOR
Wed,08/20/03-11:00PM , 94 Reads
FLORA - Four-year-old Kyle Welch speared a bite-size morsel of beef ravioli with his fork and was about to pick up some green beans with his fingers when he remembered … the fork.

It was the sandy-haired youngster's second day in Head Start here at Smith Chapel Head Start Center.
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Lott bucking own party's leaders
By BILL MINOR
Wed,08/13/03-11:00PM , 74 Reads
JACKSON - It's been an amazing thing to behold: The "rehabilitation" of Trent Lott since his meltdown as Senate majority leader last December.

His fall from grace came amid a cascade of apologies and mea culpas for his longtime insensitivity to the plight of African-Americans, of which his home state has more than any other.
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GOP exaggerates state's woes
By BILL MINOR
Wed,08/06/03-11:00PM , 70 Reads
JACKSON - If you swallowed all the GOP rhetoric you've heard from the campaign stump as gospel, you'd believe that Mississippi is the nation's worst basket case in coping with a national recession that has devastated budgets of states throughout the country.
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