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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 2014
Page
4
A reader commends Mark Fleming and The Baytown Sun for coverage of Goose Creek CISD issues. Calls for board accountability, hard questions, and vigilant parent and taxpayer involvement. Urges attending meetings, staying to learn, and pushing for televised sessions.
A Baytown reader urges The Sun to restore the Letters to the Editor focus on issues not personalities. He defends free speech while condemning intimidation and partisan bickering and calls for respectful disagreement to solve problems.
A list of addresses and phone numbers for Governor Perry U S Senate members Ted Cruz John Gorayn Ted Cruz stockman and Texas legislators including Sylvia Garcia Wayne Smith with P O Boxes street addresses and district offices for contact and outreach purposes.
Wanda Orton reflects on Gail Borden in Galveston firelight and faith, noting his eccentricities and public service. He rode a pet bull, helped the poor, started Baptist work, fought gambling, and invented the meat biscuit and condensed milk which saved lives and built a fortune.
Retired editor Jim Finley recalls two misdirected texts from strangers, including a math themed exchange with Albert Einstein IV and a note from OILMAN. He jokes about his own tech blindness while warning how careless texting and messaging can cause confusion and embarrassment.
On this date in history events include 1807 Fulton’s steamboat sailing the Hudson from New York to Albany. 1863 Civil War bombardment of Fort Sumter by Federal forces. 1943 Allied entry into Messina Sicily. 1969 Hurricane Camille’s deadly Mississippi coast strike. 1982 ABBA soundtrack pressed as first commercial compact disc. Thought for Today by David E Lilienthal.
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