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December 1, 2008

Oil storage facility on slow track

The Clarion-Ledger, 12/1/8 As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to name an energy secretary who supports his policies, the current administration is pushing ahead with plans to extend the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Mississippi. The U.S. Department of Energy announced plans in 2006 to acquire the Richton salt dome to build an underground facility that would…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
December 1, 2008

Obama first to implement Till bill

The Clarion-Ledger, 12/1/8 Before Barack Obama left Birmingham in 2004, he insisted on visiting the 16th Street Baptist Church where four youths died in a Ku Klux Klan bombing in 1963. “I walked him over to the church and showed him where the bomb was planted,” said former U.S. Attorney Doug Jones of Birmingham. “That…