Letter urging Baytown voters to renew CCPD and FCPEMSD districts
In Baytown a key election includes Proposition A renewing two special sales tax districts CCPD and FCPEMSD. The districts fund public safety tech, vehicles, training, personnel, body cameras and video storage, all without raising property taxes. Voters outside Baytown help finance services through sales taxes. volunteers seek ongoing reauthorization every five years and offer to answer questions with official materials available online and a City Hall channel.
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Baytonian’s
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Ccpd Board
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Election news urges voters to cast ballots soon
The piece argues 2020 choices for Congress and the presidency, praising President Trump and criticizing Biden. It endorses voting for most Republican candidates, stresses jobs, police funding, social justice, health options, and urges early in person voting. It cites a Wall Street Journal quote on governance versus the swamp.
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House of Representatives
Senate
United States
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Washington, D.C
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Kimberley Strassel
Washington
Mac Davis Remembered By Pastor Meekins After 1972 Tour
Dr. Tommy Meekins recalls meeting Mac Davis during a 1972 summer tour with American Sunshine opening for Liza Minnelli at Garden State Art Center. Davis impressed crowds with songs like Don t Cry Daddy Baby Don t Get Hooked on Me and Memories and offered to join as back up group travel partner before paths diverged in Detroit.
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Michigan
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Tony Orlando
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American Sunshine
Buddy
Houston
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Gilley’s
John
Texas Suffrage 1919 to 1920 and the poll tax barrier
The 19th Amendment gave women voting rights nationally in 1919, while Texas ratified it in June 1919. Texas kept a $1 poll tax for free white men 17 to 50, with 1920 requiring $1.50. many women faced income barriers and could not vote even with federal suffrage. Harris County records show sixty Baytown area women paid the tax, including Lucy Pelly and Ardella Grant, among others, with several Black women listed.
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Baytown
Lucy Pelly
Fred Pelly
Ardella Grant
Goose Creek
Elsie Duke
Bagland Orphan Home
Alice Fayle
N. Main Street
Lizzie Moore
Houston Goose Creek
S. Main Street
Pelly
Lizzie White
Barrett
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Sun
P.O
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Southern Newspapers Inc
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Church On the Rock
Tommy
Suffrage Movement
Chuck Chandler
Alice May Fayle
Annie Sjolander Scott
John Peter Sjolander
Equal Suffrage Association of
Cedar Bayou
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