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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 2003
Page
4
In a Baytown Sun editorial, David Bloom promotes the Bay Baytown campaign by the Baytown Chamber of Commerce to boost local shopping. The plan highlights sales tax revenue, budget impact, and job preservation, urging residents to patronize Baytown businesses to keep money circulating locally.
Eight weeks after critics derided his policy as voodoo economics, the Commerce Department reports a 7.2 percent annualized growth in the third quarter the fastest in nearly two decades. U S manufacturers push output to four-year high and construction spending hits September records. President Bush sticks to tax cuts, seen as vindicating the plan and signaling further prosperity.
The Baytown Sun invites letters up to 305 lines and guest columns up to 500 words on public issues. Submissions must be original, signed, with contact details, and may be edited. Send to Wanda Garner Cash or David Bloom, The Baytown Sun, P.O. Box 90, Baytown 77522, or by fax or email.
A Baytown reader criticizes the school board for scrapping a blue ribbon study, calling the effort a wasted endeavor and urging accountability. The letter argues the committee was restricted and questions the impact on students and the community.
Deborah F. Duffy urges Texas parents to oppose a proposed SBEC rule allowing uncertified individuals to teach. She warns it would lower teaching standards and harm children, urging a vote against the plan and directing readers to SBEC for more information.
Key events on this date include Colorado women gaining vote rights in 1893, Jeannette Rankin becoming the first woman in Congress in 1916, the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, FDR’s fourth term win in 1944, Eleanor Roosevelt’s death in 1962, Nixon’s 1962 last press conference, John Glenn’s space return in 1998, and notes on Baytown United Fund progress in 1978 plus missing person leads in 1993 and a 199?
Mike Moses urges a legislative study committee to find new school funding. Meanwhile Dallas and other districts join a lawsuit against Texas for insufficient funding, criticizing the Robin Hood approach as divisive and urging sustained monetary increases beyond tax relief. Moses notes the need for external pressure from courts, business, and voters to boost state education dollars.
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