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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 2004
Page
4
The Baytown Sun invites readers to vote in the Readers' Choice Awards for best travel agency plumber and butcher shop. Readers nominate and summarize why their pick deserves recognition. Ballots due by 5 p.m. Wednesday, one week from issue date.
U S facilities face questioned security as training programs shrink and overtime fatigue rises. Ten weapons sites including Pantex near Amarillo reduced key anti terror elements per the DOE inspector general. POGO warns 65 nuclear power plants are not prepared for attacks. Comanche Peak near Glen Rose cites enhanced measures post 2001.
The Baytown Sun editorial board holds weekly meetings at 2 p.m. each Wednesday and invites community members to visit and discuss issues. To arrange attendance contact Managing Editor David Bloom at 281-422-8302.
The Baytown Sun invites letters up to 300 words and guest columns up to 500 words on public interest topics. Submissions must be original, signed, include a non publishable address and phone, and may be edited. Limit one submission per month. Send to Wanda Gamer Cash or David Bloom at The Baytown Sun or fax to 281 427 1880 or email sunnews baytownsun com.
A Baytown resident denounces the Baytown Sun for liberal bias and AP reliance, claims the paper misreports his father’s police work, and questions gambling restrictions and state revenue. He argues Texas voters should decide by ballot on penny arcades and gambling.
A Homecoming Queen at Lee High School expresses gratitude to sponsors and supporters who helped fund a safe graduation party. She names Sammy Mahan, Carole Opryshek, Weston Cotten, David Starr, and many others, plus thanks Baytown groups and theatre personnel.
A reader questions policing of penny arcade game rooms and asks if authorities target seniors while real criminals go free. They question city and county motives, ballot access, and tax policies in a tense democracy versus democracy-state tone.
On March 25 1965 Martin Luther King Jr led 25000 marchers to the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery to protest voting rights denial. The day recalls Maryland's 1634 founding by Lord Baltimore and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire tragedy of 1911 that galvanized labor.
A 1941 fire destroyed First Christian Church in 1934 and dust storms swept Texas while minor coastal disturbances did not affect Baytown. In 1976 Baytown hosted the Senatorial District 13 Democratic convention. Wayne Invin won 100000 in a Eveready Battery contest in 1991. In 2001 a Baytown veterinarian partner and two clinics workers died in an accident. a veterinary assistant also died. In 2003 Baytonians met downtown coordinator Pete Brooks at an open house. Brooks resigned in Jan 2004.
A roster lists district and city officials in Baytown Texas with contact numbers including District Clerk Chares Bacarisse District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal County Judge Robert Eckels and other county and city leaders. It notes officers serving two year terms and council meeting times on the second and fourth Thursdays at 6 30 p m at City Mall.
Goose Creek CISD and Barbers Hill administrators and trustees listed with addresses and phone numbers. Includes Superintendent Barbara Sultis and multiple district and school board members with terms and meeting times. Also lists Board of Regents and presidents with contact details for several named individuals.
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