The Hays Daily News, Nov. 18
The Kansas Secretary of State Office usually is low profile. Statutes guide the rather perfunctory roles it performs.
Not so with Kris Kobach, whose national and state moonlighting has made him the face of Kansas for outsiders.
Rights groups warn of an explosion in racist violence over the past year in Greece, with a notable surge since national elections in May and June that saw dramatic gains by the far-right Golden Dawn party. The severity of the attacks has increased too, they say. What started as simple fist beatings has now escalated to assaults with metal bars, bats, and knives. Another new element: ferocious dogs used to terrorize the victims.
The Commercial Dispatch, Columbus, Miss., on the Ole Miss election night incident:
The recent ugly incident on the University of Mississippi campus is a stark reminder that race relations in Mississippi continue to be an issue, not just for the university, but for our state.
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Mayor George Schloegel (SHLAY' guhl) took the opportunity of the Veterans Day holiday to apologize to families of African-American members of the U.S. military who weren't allowed to be buried in the city cemetery during times of segregation decades ago.
Schloegel appeared at a Veterans Day service in downtown Gulfport on Monday. The SunHerald reports that he honored three black men from the city who had died in Vietnam, but weren't allowed to be buried on city property.
