Post Office Politics and USPS Financial Struggles
A letter from August 25 discusses the USPS delays and argues for long overdue restructuring. It cites GAO findings that USPS faces a deteriorating, unsustainable financial condition with $69 billion loss over 11 years, $143 billion in unfunded liabilities, and rising costs outpacing revenue amid falling First Class Mail volumes.
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Democrats Race to Fix Decade-Old Problem
Letter to the editor argues Democrats push to fix a long broken issue as a political football. The writer suggests the strategy is working on some audiences while condemning partisan use.
Embrace Baytown kindness over cancel culture and name changes
A Baytown mother offered to watch a neighbor's child in August 2020. She rallied locals to donate a crib, clothes, diapers, a bed, and a TV, reflecting community spirit. The writer urges the school board to focus on education rather than renaming schools, praising local generosity and inclusive values.
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Ael Grad
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Goose Creek
Don’t let your legacy go a Baytown high school note
Eddie Foster urges Baytown Robert E Lee Gander alumni and students to resist name-change pressure. He shares family ties to Barbers Hill and Lee, recalls integration experience, and calls for support at Sept 9 board meeting. He emphasizes pride and unity, urging viewers to speak up about bullying and prejudice.
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Eddie Foster
Words Worth Guarding Before We Speak
A Baytown Sun reader reflects on the power of words and the wisdom of thoughtful speech. The piece warns against gossip and boasts that truthful, helpful, inspiring, necessary, and kind words are rarer and more valuable than gold or rubies. Ginger Stripling shares personal insight and invites reader contact.
19th Amendment centennial era of suffrage and reform
Dr Steve Showalter of Lee College Baytown notes the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, linking suffrage to 19th century reform movements. The piece outlines the state by state push for women's voting rights, frontier dynamics, and how prohibition intertwined with suffrage history.
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Freeport Debate of 1858 Between Lincoln and Douglas
On this date in 1858 the second senatorial debate occurred in Freeport Illinois between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A Douglas. Eight days after a violent white mob disrupted Paul Robeson’s outdoor concert near Peekskill New York the show was held.
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Todays history highlights from 1964 to 2009 events
The record recalls Lyndon Johnson clinching the 1964 Democratic nomination in Atlantic City, the 1989 Delta rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, Katrina's 2005 landfall impact, Jaycee Dugard’s 2009 reunion, and Obama’s 2014-15 New Orleans renewal remarks on Katrina’s decade.
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