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Anderson has all the credentials
By BILL MINOR
Wed,07/30/03-11:00PM , 44 Reads
JACKSON - Gary Anderson, the 47-year-old highly respected former state fiscal officer, may well make state political history this year by becoming the first Mississippi black to win a statewide elective office since Reconstruction.
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Legislative races worth watching
By BILL MINOR
Wed,07/23/03-11:00PM , 150 Reads
JACKSON - Legislative races stay largely below the radar screen amid statewide elections. That's a pity, since in Mississippi's governmental system, lawmakers hold the key to the success or failure of a state administration.
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Sonny's memoir leaves out a lot
By BILL MINOR
Wed,07/16/03-11:00PM , 160 Reads
JACKSON - Sonny Montgomery needed to write a personal memoir about his 40 years as both a state legislator and congressman as well as his World War II experience, full of rich detail and insights into his honored career we don't know about.

However, his newly published "Sonny Montgomery - The Veteran's Champion," isn't it.
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Author probes Mississippi's roots
By BILL MINOR
Wed,07/09/03-11:00PM , 120 Reads
JACKSON - Ralph Eubanks gives us a rare insight into growing up in a small segregated Mississippi town during the 1950s and 1960s, having parents considered then as "uppity Negroes."
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