State must act to improve Texas turnout and trust
San Antonio Express-News argues Texas turnout is abysmally low with only 4.6 million of 18.9 million voting age residents casting ballots, urging reforms such as online and automatic voter registration, portable and permanent registration, same day registration, pre registration for teens, and easier voting to boost civic participation and reduce influence of money in politics.
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Texas
Secretary of State
Washington D.C
Congress
Greg Abbott
San Antonio Express-News
Market Days on Texas Avenue Praise Event Organizers
A reader compliments the well planned market days on Texas Avenue held Saturday November 8 praising vendor variety and entertainment. The note mentions smoked turkey legs sold out by arrival and plans to attend future events in the area.
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Texas Avenue
Christmas shopping in Goose Creek Baytown 1940s
Wanda Orton recalls a real era shopping tour through Goose Creek and Baytown in the 1940s. Shops include Book Stall, Culpepper and Wilkenfeld, Mira cle dry goods, Pelly, Baytown area department stores Bernstein’s and Wiener’s, and M&M Market with Harbor streets. Milkshakes at several drug stores punctuate the festive circuit.
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Old Goose Creek
Pelly
Old Baytown
Texas Avenue
Culpepper
Texas
Ashbel
Wilkenfeld
Main
Minnesota
Wainscott’s
Goose Creek
Woolworth
Five and Dime
Bernstein’s
Wiener’s
Daniel's
Harbor
Jimmy's Drug Store
Cone’s
Baytown
Baytown Sun trends mix: four crime items among top reads
Baytown Sun’s week top 10 blends crime and achievement. Notable items include a daughter’s TV appearance, a brutal assault case, a deadly crash with an 18 wheeler, a local actor urging purpose, an alleged student abduction probe, road funding, Channel 2 studio broadcast, anti bullying video, Bayer PR retirements, and a police stalking report. Year to date leads feature an inappropriate texting coach, a Kroger mayoral reveal, and a fatal crash.
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Baytown Sun
Baytown
Marco
Chambers County
MDD
Garth
Channel 2
Sterling
Ganders
Bayer PR
Kroger
Mark Fleming
History highlights and notable anniversaries for November 12
On this date in history, fall back to events such as the 1984 Palapa B2 satellite salvage by space shuttle Discovery, the 1815 birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Johnstown New York, the 1936 opening of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, the 1942 Guadalcanal battle start, the 1969 Hersh reporting on My Lai, the 1977 election of New Orleans' first Black mayor Ernest Dutch Morial, the 1987 AMA stance on AIDS, and the 2003 Scott Peterson conviction in Redwood City. A thought on trains and thoughts from Bowker.
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Space Shuttle
Dale Gardner
Joe Allen
Discovery
Earth
Elizabeth
Cady Stanton
Johnstown
New York
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Washington, D.C
Guadalcanal
My Lai
South Vietnam
Bro
Ken
Seymour Hersh
New Orleans
Ernest “Dutch” Morial
American Medical Association
Redwood City
California
Scott Peterson
Laci
San Francisco Bay
Peterson
New World Trade Center Tower
Chicago
Willis Tower
Richard R. Bowker
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Jim Finley
Jay Eshbach
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