Lawmakers to Renew School Finance Debate This Week
Lawmakers resume the long fight over Texas school funding as lawyers for more than 300 districts urge the Texas Supreme Court to find the system unconstitutional and insufficient for a general diffusion of knowledge while the Legislature remains the remedy, amid a 30 day special session and prior rulings calling funding inadequate.
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Texas
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Supreme Court
Legislature
Eliot Shapleigh
el Paso
John Dietz
Independence Holiday Activities Set for Fourth of July
Independence celebration in Bicentennial Park runs 2 to 10 p.m. includes $15,500 fireworks show and Blake Shelton as headliner. Baytown fire marshal Bernard Olive coordinates. parade features 75 to 100 entries and honors Carolyn and Robert Francis aboard a 1947 fire truck with the family of Nito Guajardo, who died in a December house fire. Service animals only. no alcohol bicycles skateboards or barbecue pits allowed.
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Blake Shelton
Bernard Olive
Baytown
Olive
Carolyn
Robert Francis
Nito Guajardo
Who's in charge in Baytown Sun reader Q and A
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WWII POW breaks a 30 year silence in telltale tape
Vadie Smith urged husband Conner to record memories of World War II POW captivity. He recounted joining the 78th division in 1944, being captured after the Battle of the Bulge, bayonet wounds, and a failed fight when their foxhole was overrun. He described the Germans approaching and a comrade killed.
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Baytown
Vadie Smith
Smith
Conner
Vadie
Army
California
Colorado
Germany
Local woman Agnes Zimmerman marks 100th birthday on Independence Day
Agnes Zimmerman reaches her centenarian milestone as family of more than a dozen gathers at a Sugar Land hotel for a birthday party. She recalls a simple, active life, enjoys outings, and notes she never recalls the secret to long life. Her daughter Jeanne Heisig shares the celebratory plans and memories.
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Agnes Zimmerman
Jeanne Heisig
Zimmerman
Sugar Land
Heisig
St. James Place
Lucy
Tropical depression forms off Yucatan prompts warnings
A tropical depression forms northwest of the Yucatan Peninsula triggering tropical storm warnings along the east coast of the Yucatan from Punta Allan to Chetumal. The system may move northwest into the Gulf of Mexico and could threaten Texas or Louisiana by midweek as it may strengthen to a tropical storm before landfall.
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Miami
Caribbean
Yucatan Peninsula
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Punta Allan
Chetumal
Banco Chincorro Islands
Yucatan
Peninsula
Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Louisiana
Stacy Stewart
National Hurricane Center
Stewart
Cuba
Cindy
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