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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 2006
Page
1
The Baytown Sun presents Forecast 2006 a community leadership edition featuring Tommie Jones as Citizen of the Year runner up and Unsung Heroes. It celebrates the people businesses and places that shape Baytown and outline plans for 2006 and beyond.
In a tight 10 9 setback, the Lee baseball team mounted a comeback that fell short against Deer Park. The brief lists several readable personal names and a mix of lottery numbers and weather details, but the core sports result centers on Lee’s high scoring near miss and the opponent’s victory.
The Houston HUD office seeks debarment of Baytown Housing Authority executive director Bill Eiland after an audit found numerous violations of policy and recordkeeping. The review alleges Eiland altered HUD funding transfers for non HUD expenses and questions $1.1 million in salary costs paid from HUD funds from 2002 to 2005. The agency owes $927,191 to federal programs. Eiland and Baytown Housing Authority board chair Lawrence Wallace dispute the findings and plan a comprehensive response.
Texas media groups plan to pursue a shield law in the 2007 session to protect reporters from disclosing secret sources and other information in court. The measure failed in 2005 amid opposition from district attorneys, and executives like Ken Whalen vow to press it hard.
Editorial notes clashes between confiding sources and public interest. Wanda Garner Cash, Texas Press Association chair and Baytown Sun editor, defends shielding confidential information to maintain free flow of information. Shield details referenced on page 5A.
The May 13 filing deadline nears with two contested Baytown elections. Incumbent Ronnie Anderson faces Lynn A. Caskey II in District 5, while Robert Gouner joins Stephen DonCarlos in the mayoral race as no incumbent mayor seeks re election after Calvin Mundinger’s December departure. Gouner, 32, has lived in Baytown four years. DonCarlos says fundraising will begin next week and hopes a rare contested mayoral race unfolds.
After sunshine laws spread through federal and state levels in the early 1970s Texas lawmakers crafted open meetings and public information acts. Senate Bill 286 by Senator Wentworth sought formal training for officials to ensure compliance with these laws across government entities.
With the Monday deadline for area school board filings approaching, only Dahlia Meza has entered the Goose Creek District 2 race held by Rosa Rodriguez. Rodriguez and District 5 incumbent Clarence Albus could not be reached for comment. Meza, 55, retired from teaching in 2003 after 20 years in early grades and six years as a bilingual specialist, now leads Our Lady of Guadalupe Church religious education and has three children. In Barbers Hill, Position 5 incumbent Philip James, a Chevron Phillips worker, remains unopposed.
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