Local group honors volunteers and new maritime project
Cheers and Jeers highlights Home Depot Team Depot aiding a resident with a repaired ceiling, The Scow Schooner Project choosing Anahuac as its home for a maritime museum and education center, and a library program giving youth cultural music exposure. It also voices criticism of Baytown Animal Control and encourages reader submissions.
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Home Depot
Team Depot
Scow Schooner Project
Anahuac
Galveston
Trinity Bay
Ary Education Center
Ull
Trio X Two
Sterling Municipal
ExxonMobil
Texas Judges Face Fundraising Criticism in Owen Nomination
The San Antonio Express-News argues that while Texas judges raise big money to run for office and must rule independently, the fundraising system fuels a perception that justice is for sale. It notes Justice Priscilla Owen’s nomination to the 5th Circuit and urges Senate focus beyond fund-raising while acknowledging systemic flaws.
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Priscilla Owen
U.S. 5Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Texas
Texas Supreme Court
Capitol Hill
Lone Star
Owen
Senate Judiciary Committee
U.S. Senate
San Antonio
Baytown Sun Editorial Board Guidelines and Submissions
The editorial board meets weekly at 2 p.m. every Wednesday and invites public discussion. Submissions include letters up to 300 words and guest columns up to 500 words with a photograph. Include writer signature, address, and phone number not for publication. limit one submission per month. editor may edit.
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Baytown
Sun
Baytown Sun
David Bloom
Wanda Gamer Cash
Meredith Damelt
Dee Anne Navarre
Bartown Sun
Baytoun Sun
P.O. Box
Commentary on federal judges deserve a raise
Steven and Cokie Roberts argue that federal judges have faced real pay cuts since 1969, driving talent away and reducing justice. They cite Breyer and Rehnquist on tenure, inflation, and the gap with law professors, urging Congress to raise salaries to keep competent, diverse jurists.
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Congress
National Commission On the Public Service
Stephen Breyer
Enron
Microsoft
Supreme Court
Senate
Bush
Breyer
Commission
Harvard
William Rehnquist
Rehnquist
GOP
High Court
Officials in State and Local Government Contacts List
A dense roster of Texas and Baytown officials and offices including Governor Rick Perry acting with addresses and phone numbers for the governor’s office, attorney general, comptroller, land commissioner, agriculture, and several state senators and representatives, plus U.S. representatives Nick Lampson and Ken Bentsen, and local Baytown city posts. The list covers district clerks, prosecutors, county officials, city hall, and chamber contacts.
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Rick Perry
P.O. Box
Austin
Texas
Bill Ratliff
John Camyn
Carole Rylander
David Dewhurst
Susan Cambs
David Bemsen
Mario Gallegos
Mike Jackson
John Whitmire
Zeb Zbranek
U.S
Nick Lampson
Cannon House
Washington
D.C
Nick. Lampson
House
Ken Bentsen
Washington, D.C
Houston
Loop South
Bellaire
Ken.bentsen
Mail
Joe Crabb
Fred Bosse
Charles Matthews
Michael Williams
Tony Garza
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David Boom
Fred Hartman
Asout
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Baytownsun.com
Pearsgate
Al-Qaeda
Cokie Roberts and
Steven V. Roberts
Steven and
Cokie Roberts
Harris County
Charles Bacarisse
Chuck Rosenthal
Robert Eckels
Jack Cato
Michael Stafford
B.F. Kaufman
Paul Bettencourt
Jim Fonteno
City of
City Hall
Market Street
Gary Jackson
Pete Alfaro
Mercedes Renteriatil
Scott Shelay
Calvin Mundinger
Gen Murray
Ronnie Anderson
Coleman Godwin
Baytown Chamber of Commerce
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Chambers County Chamber of
League of Women Voters of
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