Real risks and options for San Jacinto waste pits remediation
A guest view argues over permanent remedies for the San Jacinto waste pits near Interstate 10 in eastern Harris County. It summarizes EPA and Army Corps analyses comparing full excavation versus enhanced caping, noting higher short term and long term risks with removal and stronger protection with capping, supported by recent sampling showing no dioxin in groundwater or pore water and similar fish dioxin levels upstream and downstream.
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Choose Joy and Pick the Happy Face Says Ginger Stripling
A Baytown resident Ginger Stripling reflects on choosing joy amid life’s difficulties. She compares life to a toy with three faces and considers how easily happiness eludes, urging readers to focus on the present and find joy in everyday blessings.
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Ginger Stripling
Mont Belvieu
Memory games for seniors and brain health
Jane Howard Lee reflects on memory concerns as baby boomers age and explores brain training games, noting mixed memories of dementia risk. She shares personal quirks, small forgetful moments, and a cautious interest in online games to stay mentally engaged without overreacting to aging.
Lincoln Proclamation and Tunney Dempsey Fight Highlight 1862 1927
On 1862 Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation effective January 1 1863 freeing slaves in rebel states. In 1911 Cy Young at age 44 earned his 511th and final victory with a 1-0 shutout for the Boston Rustlers over the Pirates at Forbes Field. In 1927 Gene Tunney defended his heavyweight title against Jack Dempsey in the famed long count fight in Chicago.
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Five star generals hailed as Bradley joins elite group
Today in history recalls Omar N. Bradley being promoted to five star general joining Eisenhower MacArthur Marshall and Arnold. Other notes include Fiddler on the Roof opening on Broadway with Zero Mostel and Farm Aid 1985 in Champaign Illinois. Sara Jane Moore’s 1975 Ford assassination attempt and later parole are noted. Thought for Today praises autumn as a soulful bond to the season.
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Gerald R. Ford
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