Skeptical view on climate change movement and science
A reader argues that consensus figures do not equal science and questions mankind s role in warming. They compare climate activism to the Flat Earth Society, cite unproven predictions, and urge proof before surrendering freedom and money. The letter supports environmental caution but rejects far reaching controls without solid evidence.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
U.S
Flat Earth Society
Miami
Cartoon on abortion sparks heated Baytown Sun reaction
Reader Bert Marshall denounces a June 5 Baytown Sun cartoon depicting conservatives as the American Taliban. He argues the piece equates abortion with Islamic restrictions and claims it insults voters who oppose wholesale abortion for convenience.
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Baytown Sun
Taliban
Bert Marshall Baytown
Today in History highlights major events and births
Highlights include 1712 Pennsylvania ban on slave importation, 1769 Boone’s Kentucky exploration start, 1776 Richard Henry Lee’s call for independence, 1892 Homer Plessy arrest and later ruling on segregation, 1958 Prince born, and 2017 Trump summit remark plus a rise in self harm death rates. Dorothy Parker quote closes.
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Pennsylvania
Colonial Assembly
Daniel Boone
Kentucky
Richard Henry Lee
Virginia
Continental Congress
Homer Plessy
East Louisiana
U.S. Supreme Court
Prince
Prince Rogers Nelson
Minneapolis
North Korea
Kim Jong UN
Donald Trump
U.S
Dorothy Parker
Battleship Tex as final visit before relocation at San Jacinto
Lanny Griffith recalls high school lunches near Monument Inn and memories of the Battleship Tex as it nears removal from its longtime state park home. He notes historic San Jacinto Monument grounds, questions about holidays and road names, and urges Texans to visit one last time before the ship sails away.
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Monument Inn
San Jacinto Monument
Texas
Mexico
San Jacinto
Battleground
Independence Highway
State Park
Alamo
Monument
Be Nice to Nurses Lifeline of Modern Hospitals
Ginger Stripling reflects on hospital life from a patient’s view, praising nurses while critiquing delays, noise, and procedures. She stresses hospitals are places of healing despite pain, costs, and impersonal routines. A Baytown native now in Mont Belvieu invites reader feedback.
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Baytown
Ginger Stripling
Mont Belvieu
Baytownsun
Trump claims on clean air disputed by fact check
AP FACT CHECK says Trump misstates U S air quality and water status. Obama era 2016 set clean air records while 2017 numbers rose under Trump, with 729 unhealthy ozone and particle days in 35 cities, up 20 percent from 2014. U S ranking in global air quality remains mixed, with robust water status in some measures.
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Trump
Washington
Donald Trump
U.S
Ireland
Leo Varadkar
Obama
United States
Environmental Protection Agency
The
Health Effects Institute
Canada
Yale University
Japan
Australia
Switzerland
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