Minding your own business by Don Taylor
The piece argues for teaching free enterprise values to workers and the public. It critiques negative media portrayals of business, defends Microsoft in anti trust debates, and urges using the 3 M Method Models Money and Morals to shape future generations toward responsible, informed consumer behavior.
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Microsoft
Bill Gates
Mentors Needed to Inspire Youth Through Business
Education extends beyond on the job training and personal sessions with successful business mentors can leave a large impact on young minds. Businesspeople are often caring and community oriented and can share the positive side of business success in a relaxed one to one setting.
State Promotes Reading Tests for Young Students
Texas schools prepare elementary pupils for a new third grade reading test in 2002 03 as superintendents distribute parent brochures with tips to cut TV time boost home reading and stay in touch with teachers. Calls for arson reporting via toll free hotline 1 877 4 FIRE 45 and Fire Marshal Mike Davis cite 10000 Texas fires yearly. UT suspends admissions amid overcrowding with a spring intake uncertain and a projected 7500 entering freshmen. Austin launches Project HomeSafe gun lock distribution offering 2500 free devices May 7 through private funding.
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Austin
Texas Education
Jim Nelson
Jose Montemayor
G. Mike Davis
Texas
Montemayor
University of Texas
Bruce Walker
Austin Ameri
Teleidoscope view of reality and God’s plan in parenting
Parenting columnist Gina Caswell Kelly uses a teleidoscope analogy to urge readers to reinterpret life’s changes. Seeing through God’s perspective can transform ugly appearances into beauty, fostering love, joy, and a hopeful attitude amid life’s challenges.
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Gina Caswell Kelly
God
Terry County Family Fitness Park Opens After Years of Planning
The Terry County Family Fitness Park on Grace and Ripley Streets offers a FitCenter system with levels 1 to 4 and stations for warm-up stretching toning and strength. Promoted as a preventive health care effort the park invites all ages to visit and exercise for health.
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Family and Consumer Sciences Committee
Texas Agricultural Extension
Terry County
Terry County Family Fitness Park
Grace
Ripley
Community Merchants Reward Hard-Working Students Letter
Nancy Harrison and Rita Murry of Brownfield Middle School thank local merchants Pizza Hut Mr. Gattis McDonalds Burger King and Movie Gallery for donating coupons to reward students who helped computer teachers install equipment. The letter praises merchant generosity and community support.
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Pizza Hut
Mr. Gattis
McDonalds
Burger King Movie Gallery
Nancy Harrison
Rita Murry
City Charter Amendments Support Vote May 6 2000
Dear Citizens. The charter amendments are being voted on at the city election on May 6 2000. These amendments result from work by the Citizens Advisory Committee City Attorney staff and City Administration. They bring the charter into compliance with federal law and are necessary for the city to enter the 21st century. The publication cost was $8 873.50 and is not a reason against the amendments. Vote for each amendment. Bradford L. Moore Mayor.
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Citizens Advisory Committee
Bradford L. Moore
Third graders must pass reading test to advance
Texas prison inmates are more violent and less likely to be granted parole. A Texas Department of Criminal Justice study released May 4 shows violent offenders now comprise 45 percent of inmates, up from 38 percent in 1994, with guards facing rising assaults from 700 to 2000 annually. The report notes racial makeup near 1994 levels and average inmate education at seventh grade.
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Texas
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Glen Castlebury
Honda Motor Co
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
Dallas
Honda
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