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Ol' Strom has a successor in 'Ol Trent
By BILL MINOR
Wed,12/11/02-11:00PM , 65 Reads
JACKSON - Well, Strom Thurmond has turned 100, the oldest guy to ever sit in the United States Senate.

My, it doesn't seem that long ago when I heard a South Carolina Democratic governor named J. Strom Thurmond make a fire-eating states' rights speech lathered with white supremacy here in Jackson's old City Auditorium.
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GOP trying to 'buy' Mississippi
By BILL MINOR
Wed,12/04/02-11:00PM , 240 Reads
JACKSON - In neighboring Louisiana, political pundits are calling the unique run-off U.S. Senate race the "Second Louisiana Purchase" because of the tons of Republican money shipped in to unseat Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu.
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Judge Cox could carry racial grudge
By BILL MINOR
Wed,11/27/02-11:00PM , 80 Reads
JACKSON - This tall, 60-ish guy with a receding hairline comes over to me at a black-tie reception a week or so ago in New York honoring a journalist friend of mine and says:

"Hi, I'm Jerry Stern, I was James Meredith's roommate at Ole Miss back in 1962."

What's that again?
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Elections turn chief justice off
By BILL MINOR
Wed,11/20/02-11:00PM , 159 Reads
JACKSON - Depend on Ed Pittman to plow the ground so Mississippi can end the special interest-driven, multimillion-dollar nightmare of electing high court judges and return to appointing them as was done when the revered 1890 Constitution was written.
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