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Katrina funds are not needed to rebuild port
By BILL MINOR - Capitol Correspondent
Wed,07/02/08-11:00PM , 198 Reads
JACKSON — The Barbour-pushed scheme to siphon $600 million from Katrina recovery funds intended for low-income housing to use at the state-owned Port of Gulfport in the name of jobs on closer look turns out to be a scam that some editors and political leaders have bought into as worthwhile.
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State missed the boat by not electing Ferris
By BILL MINOR - Capitol Correspondent
Wed,06/25/08-11:00PM , 97 Reads
JACKSON — Grey Ferris was another tragic story of what was and what might have been in Mississippi political history. Now with his passing at age 62, this state, which desperately needs in public life people with his bright, incisive mind, progressiveness and gentle manner, can only mourn his loss.
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Can Mississippi solve its poverty problem?
By BILL MINOR - Capitol Correspondent
Wed,06/18/08-11:00PM , 200 Reads
JACKSON — Is it inevitable that the poor will always be with us, and more specifically, will Mississippi always be relegated to bottom of the nation’s poverty heap?

Many times over the years we’ve heard politicians running for governor in Mississippi promise to “get us off the bottom,” but it’s never happened.
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Robert Kennedy made impression on state
By BILL MINOR - Capitol Correspondent
Wed,06/11/08-11:00PM , 210 Reads
JACKSON — A warm day in April 1967, Bobby Kennedy and I stood alone in the tiny, dank kitchen of a shotgun shack in the Delta where only a snatch of dried beans and rice were visible to feed a family of eight and the oozing stench of poverty pervaded the hovel. Up front huddled the black family who lived there.
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