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Opinion  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
August 31, 2009

What’s your nickname?

What’s your nickname? If you’re from around here, you don’t bat an eye when an insurance company president answers to Shorty, a major car dealer is dubbed Butch, Bubba is a funeral home executive, the mayor’s called Chipper and a software consultant is known far and wide as FoFo. “We’ve got more nicknames than anywhere…
Opinion  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
August 27, 2009

MITCHELL – Mississippi remembers political ‘giant’

Mississippi remembers political ‘giant’ “We’ve lost a giant,” said longtime civil rights leader Charles Evers, a friend of the Kennedy family. Those who are poor, downtrodden or down on their luck have “lost a great spokesman, and President Obama has lost a great supporter.” Kennedy died after a long battle with brain cancer. Many colleagues,…