Green presses stimulus plan to get folks back to work
U.S. Rep. Gene Green urged support for Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package at a Lee College town meeting, stressing a plan to immediate $25 billion for roads and school facilities to create jobs. He warned against only temporary shovel jobs and urged a broader effort to revitalize the economy while noting debates with the incoming administration and concerns on health care, FEMA denials, and energy costs.
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Gene Green
Lee College
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Green
Congress
Harris County
Texas
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Baytown Kindergartner Honored for 911 Call In Fire Rescue
Ienesha Wooley, five, is praised by Baytown Fire Department and George Washington Carver Elementary for calling 911 during a home kitchen fire. A 911 dispatcher notes she remained calm though the call came from a cell, and she helped save her family of five.
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George Washington Carver Elementary
Ienesha Wooley
Kindergartner
Carver Elementary
Stefanie Noble
Ijenesha
Crystal Brooks
Brooks
Ienesha
Steven Jones
Jones
Jenesha Wooley
Baytown
Lee College group volunteers on Martin Luther King Day
The Lee College Black Education Access Committee follows Barack Obama’s call for a day of service by volunteering at the Houston Food Bank on Martin Luther King Day. They will meet at 9 a.m. in front of the Sears at San Jacinto Mall and work through the day, returning to Baytown around 3 p.m. The article notes King’s civil rights leadership and assassination in 1968.
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Black Education Access Committee
Barack Obama
Martin Luther King, Jr
Obama
Ray Wilson
King Committee
Martin Luther King
Houston
Wilson
Sears
San Jacinto Mall
Baytown
Memphis
Michigan
Baytown runners join fundraiser for cancer patient Tim Rose
Nearly 100 Baytown residents traveled to downtown Houston for the Texas Children’s Hospital Fun Run and Walk supporting Tim Rose, a 13 year old Baytown Christian Academy student who walked the 1.86 mile route with others. Among 4,500 participants was 7 year old cancer survivor Dylan Garcia. Organizers Isimba Rodriguez and John Hunt led the event.
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Baytown
Minute Maid Park
Houston
Texas Children’s Hospital
Tim Rose
George R. Brown Convention Center
Rose
Baytown Christian Academy
Ning
Dylan Garcia
Isimba Rodriguez
John Hunt
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