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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 2005
Page
4
Wanda Garner Cash serves as Editor Publisher with David Bloom as Managing Editor. Jim Finley and Jane Howard Lee are retired Managing Editor and retired Reporter respectively, while Doyle Barlow and Danielle Lynch hold roles as Sports Editor and News Editor.
The Dallas Morning News urges national support for Energy and Commerce chairman's refinery provision in post hurricane energy legislation. It argues the Senate should remove the clause enabling DOE coordination of refinery permitting on governor requests or presidential site designation, warning it would hinder clean air progress.
Texas voters face Prop 7 easing reverse mortgage limits by allowing line of credit loans for senior homeowners. It postpones repayment until ownership ends or death and preserves foreclosure protections while offering funds for taxes insurance or medical bills.
A sustained critique of the media trend toward divorce celebrations notes that such revelry harms children. Elizabeth Marquardt’s Between Two Worlds details how kids in split families feel less safe, less protected, and less connected, urging parents to consider preserving the marriage when possible and focusing on family stability.
Government officials listed include Governor Rick Perry Lt. Governor David Dewhurst Attorney General Greg Abbott Comptroller Carole Strayhorn Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson Agriculture Commissioner Susan Combs and Senators and Representatives with district numbers and phone lines. Visit www.capitol.state.tx.us/fyi/fyi.htm to find your state representative or senator.
Publisher Wanda Garner Cash and Business Manager Sandy Denson lead the Baytown Sun. Newsroom staff include Managing Editor David Bloom, Sports Editor Doyle Barlow, Design Editor Clarissa Silva, and Classified Manager Angie Pagel. Each role is linked to the Baytown Sun contact emails.
The Baytown Sun provides newsroom, retail, classified, circulation, and fax numbers for contact. Delivery assurance asks readers to call by 10 a.m. if the paper is late to ensure redelivery.
The Baytown Sun invites unsigned pages submissions by readers, up to 300 words for letters and 500 words for guest columns, with a signature and a non publication address and phone number. Send signed pieces to Wanda Garner Cash or David Bloom at The Baytown Sun, P O Box 90, Baytown 77522, or fax and email as directed. items reflect writer views only.
A Baytown reader warns of a dangerous situation on the spur 330 feeder road west of Baytown past Slapout Gully. The I 10 East and I 10 West lane sign is too close to the turn, the road is uphill and a tree limbs partly cover the sign, causing drivers to miss the turn and drift into center lanes. The writer asks DOT to contact the in charge and fix the sign promptly.
Letters argue Prop 1 to relocate private rail is a costly subsidy to corporate rail interests. They condemn funding of the Trans Texas Corridor and call Prop 1 a theater of taxpayer debt and land grabbing, urging a no vote.
A Baytown resident asks why the metro weather segments overlook Baytown despite its population of about 67 000 on the Houston ship channel. The city hosts Exxon Mobil Bayer and Chevron Phillips plants and asks whether its status as a regional commerce hub warrants coverage.
Columbus Festival Committee thanks Baytown Sun for extensive coverage on Oct 16 and 17 of the Columbus Day Festival sponsored by San Jacinto Council No 2788 Knights of Columbus. Readers praised the reporting which complemented the event honoring Christopher Columbus.
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