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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 2007
Page
4
Clifton E. Cliff Clements remains editor publisher while Jim Finley retires as managing editor. Jay Eschbach exits as editor. David Bloom continues as managing editor with Jane Howard Lee retirement. Keith Magee serves as assistant managing editor.
Baytown Junior Academy students earned first place in the Junior Group Performance at National History Day in Washington DC for Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement. The group included Candice Archangel Imani Lee Olivia Richard Khrys King and Demontrey Mitchell with Kaitlyn Martin advancing individually. They conducted interviews with relatives investigators and the FBI to deepen their project and represented Baytown Goose Creek ISD and Texas with praise for teachers and Principal Steve Koester.
Baytown reader Hilda C. Martinez reflects on Forbes ranking of top paying and worst jobs, underscoring the real value of low wage workers. She laments how some employers dismiss workers while praising labor, notes a local housecleaning strike, and celebrates workers who keep Baytown thriving beyond Labor Day.
A compact list of congressional and White House contacts for officials including President George W Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Senator John Cornyn, Representative Ted Poe, Representative Ron Paul, and Representatives Gene Green. It provides phone numbers and some fax lines and official websites.
Contact details for Clifton Clements Sandy Denson Emmett McKinley Joshua Hart and David Bloom are listed. The Sun invites letters up to 300 words and guest columns up to 500 words with guidelines for submission.
The Baytown Sun explains submission policy for letters and guest columns including requirement of signature and return contact details. It outlines delivery times, reship guidance, and contact methods for submitting letters by mail fax or email.
Parents seek understanding not blame after the Moyers family tragedy. The writer emphasizes that families hurt by loss deserve support as the community processes a difficult death, cautioning against public criticism or assumptions about supervision or home life.
A reader defends grieving families after a child went missing, arguing critics blame parents unfairly. The letter questions reporters Ms Hartensteiner and J Lowry and urges restraint, noting parents cannot foresee every risk and that youths may sneak out without permission. The writer requests focus on legitimate concerns rather than blame.
In a public reply, a Weimar resident derides Sandi Hartensteiner for asserting lack of sense in coverage of a deadly accident that killed four children. The writer questions parenting and supervision claims while defending local news reporting and urging civil discourse.
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