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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 2019
Page
4
The Baytown Sun editorial reflects on Pamela Turner’s death, urging kindness, patience, and tolerance while acknowledging varied daily life challenges in the Greater Baytown area. It calls for learning from tragedy and notes the newspaper’s duty to record local facts.
James Colquitt of Beach City argues the fatal officer shooting stemmed from a self defense incident after a non lethal arrest attempt. He notes the suspect faced eviction, attacked an apartment manager, and had a mental illness history, urging context beyond race and calls for better mental health prevention.
Key events include the 1921 Emergency Quota Act signed by President Harding establishing immigrant quotas, Churchill and Roosevelt signaling D Day timing in 1943, Marilyn Monroe singing to JFK in 1962, the 1992 Buttafuoco affair, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis death in 1994. Ogden Nash’s birthday quote closes the selection.
Lee College celebrated two standing room only commencements on May 11 2019 with over 600 graduates. Congressman Brian Rabin spoke motivating graduates to pursue further study or enter the workforce as they receive their certificates or degrees. Dr Dennis Brown praised graduates and urged them to make their mark on the world as faculty staff and families share in the achievement.
Retired editor Jim Finley recounts two road trips with wife Margie to Magnolia and a Sweeny High class reunion. He details Easter weekend visit with family, mass, and a large Easter Egg Hunt, then laments unprecedented freeway gridlock on the return journey, including Beltway 8 288 and 225 bottlenecks and a small tire incident.
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