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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 2006
Page
4
Wanda Garner Cash and David Bloom lead the editorial board as Editor and Publisher and Managing Editor respectively. Jim Finley, Jane Howard Lee appointed as retired managing editors while Doyle Barlow and Danielle Lynch take on sports editor and news editor roles.
Baytown youth prepare for the 46th Baytown Youth Fair and Livestock Show at the Baytown Youth Fairgrounds. Activities include livestock shows, a ranch rodeo, calf scramble, auction, mixer, and a free-entry pet show. Tickets: rodeo six dollars for adults, two for students. toddlers free.
Texas views the Moussaoui sentencing as a validation of American justice. The court delivered six consecutive life terms without parole after a seven day trial, with Judge Leonie Brinkema emphasizing mercy over death. Families of victims feel unresolved, while the judge notes justice has been served.
James Kingsmill of Baytown argues that the United States secured Texas and other lands through victory in the Texas Revolution and Mexican-American War, not theft. He cites Sam Houston, Santa Anna, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, contrasting imagined alternate histories with the real outcome and praising U.S. territorial growth.
Government officials including President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are provided with office phone and fax numbers. Also listed are Texas Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn and Representatives Ted Poe Ron Paul and Gene Green with district office numbers and website links.
Directory of Baytown Sun personnel lists Wanda Garner Cash publisher Sandy Denson business manager David Bloom managing editor Doyle Barlow sports editor Danielle Lynch news editor Danielle Lynch ch baytownsun .com and advertising director Angie Pagel with production manager Wayne Oxedine also named.
The Baytown Sun lists offices and departments with addresses and phone numbers for main newsroom retail and classifieds at 1301 Memorial Drive Baytown Texas 77522 and a P O Box 90 postal address. It provides direct lines for circulation fax and email plus the newspaper web address.
Missed deliveries should be redelivered. Call (281) 425 8048 by 10 a.m. to ensure prompt reissuance and service.
The Sun welcomes letters up to 300 words and guest columns up to 500 words. Include a signed name, return address, and phone number not for publication. Submissions may be edited. the paper may refuse publication. Send to Wanda Garner Cash or David Bloom at The Baytown Sun, P.O. Box 90, Baytown, 77522, or via fax or email. Views expressed belong to authors, not necessarily the newspaper or advertisers.
A reader criticizes the Highlands junior high funding plan citing a 3 percent inflation allowance but not six percent and a missing million for driveways sidewalks and parking. The writer urges a new school rather than an addition and calls out overbudget stadium work while urging trustees to fund the Highlands project with the district’s 45 million general fund.
State Rep Wayne Smith backed HB viewed as a Band-aid for the school funding crisis. Linda Bridges of the Texas Federation of Teachers says the $1,500 pay raise relies on health-care funds and may not reach teachers fully next year. She notes Texas teachers have not had a state raise since 1999 and points to an $8.2 billion surplus as evidence of potential broader support. Baytown residents urged Rep Smith to back stronger education legislation rather than HB 1.
A long lived oak near Branson Missouri stands as a symbol of what was, having survived poisoning and several vehicle strikes. Locals urge preservation, arguing the tree outlasts the town and should die naturally only, while criticizing reckless driving and prompting debate over whether to cut it down.
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