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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 2009
Page
4
Luke Hales and Jay Eshbach serve as managing editors with M A Bengtson and Jim Finley among community members, while Dave Mathews and Dave Rogers lead sports coverage as editor and sports editor respectively.
Lee College president Michael Murphy outlines a persistence driven plan to raise retention, including outreach to high school freshmen, administrative restructuring, and stronger industry partnerships with ExxonMobil and San Jacinto Methodist Hospital. The college emphasizes all programs as academic offerings under the persistence umbrella.
A reader commentary argues white readers and the Religious Right react to race topics with consternation. It cites Susan Smith and Bonnie Sweeten cases alleging white women blamed Black men, a Black man’s exoneration after 23 years, and critiques Obama and Rush Limbaugh. The piece asserts profit culture and personal responsibility shape America.
A reader criticizes President Obama for proposing closing Guantanamo Bay arguing it would not improve safety and suggests expanding the prison. The note questions his experience and cites California's finances as a failing example of policy. The author dismisses plans to let people keep private health care as insufficient to compete with government programs.
Calvin Cormier ponders the ethics of interrogation, Christian identity, and biblical warfare. He contrasts defense of aggressive tactics with opposition to abortion, arguing that biblical narratives sanctioned battlefield actions and that life is defined by heartbeat for those opposing abortion.
The Baytown Sun provides contact numbers for departments, mailing address, and email. Readers may send signed letters up to 300 words and guest columns up to 500 words with a writer photo. Submissions edited or refused at editor's discretion. ensure delivery by 6 a.m. Monday–Saturday or 8 a.m. Sunday.
In this column reader spotlight Ms Gladys Adcox recalls encounters with readers who reached out by email in person and even sent a handkerchief that moved the author to tears prompting reflection on how readers recognize her in everyday life.
Natalie Whatley recalls Gladys Adcox of Highlands as a longtime newspaper correspondence fan who recently sent a cache of personal notes gifts including a Granny Adcox ruler a blue rose handkerchief and handwritten letters. The gesture sparked memories of her late Maw Maw and underscored the kindness found in old mail amid today’s fast pace.
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