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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot talks to reporters after she and first lady Amy Eshleman early voted in the Nov. 8 midterm election at NEIU El Centro, Nov. 3, 2022 in Chicago. While the 2024 race for the White House is brewing, a scattering of states will hold elections next year. (Ashlee Rezin /Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

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On the ballot in 2023: Southern governors, big-city mayors

By MICHELLE L. PRICE MICHELLE L. PRICE - Associated Press
Tue,12/27/22-11:13PM, 1,144 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will be asking voters for a second term leading one of the nation’s biggest cities. Republicans will try to take full control of the Virginia Legislature.
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The Governor Hugh L. White mansion marker, placed by the Mississippi State Society Colonial Dames XVII Century.

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Colonial Dames and the Gov. Hugh White Mansion

By CECILY BATEMAN CECILY BATEMAN
Thu,01/05/23-5:40PM, 1,144 Reads
What folks want to know is not where you live but rather where you are from. For me, that's Franklinton. And on a sultry Saturday in mid-May, that's how the connection was made in Columbia, Mississippi.
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A.F. Branco for May 02, 2021

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Sun,05/02/21-2:00AM, 1,143 Reads

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Parish council faced varied agenda at final November meeting

By TONI TAGEANT TONI TAGEANT
Thu,12/08/22-5:32PM, 1,143 Reads
The Washington Parish Council closed out November with its final meeting of the month held on November 28, 2022. Because of early voting held in the council chambers, the meeting was conducted in the upstairs courtroom at the Washington Parish Courthouse.
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