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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 2014
Page
4
Dr. Greg Poole proclaims Barbers Hill ISD is unmatched in the state as the district launches a new era with north south middle and elementary designations. He notes record student enrollment and a smooth start, crediting stakeholder input and attention to small details in shaping growth and reputation.
Year to date leaders include BH softball coach suspended for inappropriate texting, Mayor announces new Kroger and a fatal crash with a teen killed and a woman injured. The top weekly story centers on an accidental shooting involving a Mont Belvieu woman. Second is the opening of a second Super Wal-Mart. A third crime report covers a man who shot his wife and then himself.
Provides assorted contact details for Texas lawmakers including Rick Perry John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and Steve Stockman with street addresses in Austin and Washington and associated phone numbers for constituents seeking correspondence or meetings with federal representatives.
Judge Dietz in Austin rules for the third time in ten years that Texas public school funding violates the state constitution. The solution keeps taxes flat, avoids new local burdens, and requires no income tax or business tax increases, proposing an immediate start to funding reforms.
A letter argues that Texas growing population and revenues can fund the state portion of public education. It rejects rainy day funds tax cuts and university subsidies, urging voters to direct increased revenue to education as constitutionally required. The writer calls for a straightforward approach and action by voters.
Texas politics heat up as Judge Dietz voids school funding cuts, and Judge Yeakel blocks an anti abortion law, impacting Abbott and Davis. The rulings highlight contrasts in party bases, with Davis praising health protections and Abbott planning appeals as debate turmoil unfolds. Davis's past filibusters and Abbott's campaign moves frame a fiery race ahead of Labor Day campaigning.
On this date in 1945 Japan formally surrendered aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay ending World War II. Other noted events include the 1789 founding of the U.S. Treasury, Sherman’s Atlanta occupation in 1864, Theodore Roosevelt’s big stick speech in 1901, a deadly Labor Day hurricane in 1935, Bush’s WWII shootdown in 1944, Alvin York’s death in 1964, and Diana Nyad’s Cuba to Florida swim a year ago. Thought for Today by Goethe.
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