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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 2020
Page
4
Local supporters describe Rick Davis as citizen centric and effective in guiding San Jacinto Marketplace development road projects and the USS Texas talks. They credit his staff and mayor's backing for ongoing city growth and public safety facility plans.
A child in the womb asks if the fight for justice includes unborn Black babies. The writer asks how many sermons against abortion preachers have offered and whether killing the unborn reflects the greatest evil Christians tolerate.
Rayma Bird Causey Harlingen voices concern about renaming Robert E. Lee High School in Baytown Texas. She urges preserving town history while acknowledging past and future growth. She emphasizes pride in the 1959 Baytown graduation and hometown ties.
A resident voices strong support for City Manager Rick Davis amid City Council approval of his employment package including a 3 percent raise. The commenter notes working with Davis during prior service.
Dr. Steve Showalter notes ExxonMobil posted consecutive quarterly losses and cut capital spending and retirement matchings while the dividend rose. The piece questions long term viability of oil majors, compares Exxon to Tesla and BP, and cites shrinking market value from 285 to 188 billion.
A Baytown Sun reader Ginger Stripling reflects on the nation’s divisions and crises, urging personal peace through faith, restraint, and service. She notes how fear, anger, and political rancor strain society, calls for choosing courage, kindness, and actions to ease hardship during COVID chaos and social unrest.
On this date in 1862 the New York Tribune led by Horace Greeley urged President Lincoln to take stronger actions to free the slaves and defeat the South’s rebellion. Also noted are 1920 when Detroit’s 8MK began daily broadcasts and 1964 Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act near a billion dollars to fight poverty.
In 1986 Patrick Henry Sherrill killed 14 coworkers at Edmond Oklahoma postal facility before taking his life. In 1989 Jose and Kitty Menendez were slain in Beverly Hills by their sons. In 2005 Northwest Airlines mechanics held a strike over pay cuts then replacement workers hired. In 2017 Jerry Lewis died in Las Vegas at 91 from heart disease. A year ago Donald Trump canceled a trip to Denmark after its prime minister rejected US Greenland purchase.
AP fact check shows Trump overstates postal mismanagement by decades. The USPS began losing billions after a 2006 health prefunding mandate, while excluding those payments, the service posted yearly surpluses for much of the past decade.
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